The Nexus of ‘Legitimate Rape’ and ‘Macaca’
Here’s something most Republicans fear: “legitimate rape” is this year’s version of “macaca.”
A political typhoon now churns around Republican Senate nominee Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) over his “legitimate rape” comment. In fact, there’s so much political convection boiling around Akin’s Category Five storm that it’s siphoned into its vortex the President of the United States, the man who wants to be President of the United States, the presumptive GOP Vice Presidential nominee, the Speaker of the House, and the Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate. Meantime, dozens of GOP House and Senate candidates are experiencing storm surge.
Hurricane Akin has forced all of these figures to comment or distance themselves from the Congressman’s remarks that the female body has ways to shut down pregnancies resulting from rape. Meantime, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the senator who heads the national organization devoted to electing Republicans to the Senate, pleaded with Akin to get out of the race for the good of the party. Cornyn declared Akin’s remarks “indefensible.” Fox’s John Brandt reports that Cornyn told Akin that his continued candidacy imperils the GOP’s chances of seizing control of the Senate this fall.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who hopes he has a promotion in the offing this fall, was blunt about Akin.
“I believe he should take time with his family to consider whether this statement will prevent him from effectively representing our party in this critical election,” said McConnell
It’s weird to me that they are like… publicly worried about this situation. The normal mode is to deny, deflect, ignore, pretend it’s a win, blame it o the liberals, blame it on anyone but this piece on Fox, no less seems… hmm… it seems like actual journalism.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.