I hope he gets pregnant.

I just hope that if he *does* get raped, it's legitimate.

I hope he gets sex forced on him when he doesn't want to have sex.

I just hope that when he gets pregnant, he doesn't falsely accuse someone of legitimate rape. That could really ruin some poor, horny man's life.

Like a DoomsDay Prepper, He's Up Shit Creek

Wouldn't it be funny if he got raped by, like, five guys right now?

Whew! For a minute I was worried that he wouldn't be able to work in a reference to 9/11.

One of the things he loves about America is that first responders didn't require ID from a man in a wheel chair before rescuing him. Take that, Sweden!

I hope he stays visible, Republican, and mouthy right through November.

Try watching anime in japanese with it trying to translate, it's like art.

Just wait 'til he enters the Senate.

http://www.akin.org/

Also, he reminds me of that creepy preacher from Poltergeist II.

But what he really meant was 3.) Wives are the property of their husbands, just like in Yee Goode Olde Dayse, when Bible heroes stole their women from the pagan cities they burnt to the ground, and cannot claim rape anymore than a couch can claim assault for being intentionally sat on for hours at a time.

"wives cannot claim rape anymore than a couch can claim assault for being intentionally sat on for hours at a time."

seems legit

"So what I'm saying is: sit on your wives!"

exactly, wives make excellent furniture

That one actually IS Obama's fault.

Scary black man running the country has all the racists and bible humpers out in force like never before.

That and he's a DEMOCRAT, so now deficits are a huge deal and socialism hides in every creeping shadow.

That and his wife wants Americans to eat healthier. NO ONE TELLS AMERICANS WHAT TO EAT EXCEPT THE COMPANIES WHO MAKE THE HIGHLY PROFITABLE CRAP FOOD THAT THEY WANT AMERICANS TO EAT!

But still, I have a hard time thinking this is all a response to Obama being president. What good does being nuttier than squirrel turds on TV do for the Republicans in this election?

They aren't really. They've been around for quite a while:

http://www.metafilter.com/119094/Science-we-should-ban-that-to o

It's all a part of the apparent GOP mindset that women are chattle and that people (mostly women) should be punished for having sex.

Granted, it's not like a lot of people regard women as people in plenty of places.

Social Conservatism is a way of getting poor people to vote for tax breaks for rich people. This nut job may be completely sincere, but the reason why he gets support from the GOP establishment has to do with rich people needing more money.

I don't think Republicans are essentially racist. If Herman Cain hadn't turned out to be a delusional pussyhound, they would have been happy to nominate him. They don't hate Obama any more than they hated Clinton.

What's racist about the Republican narrative on Obama is the outlandish fiction about him being a radical socialist. For white folks, the average black person is assumed to be to the left of your average white person. I don't think Republicans are alone in this. I believe that it's why the Democratic base chose Obama over Hillary Clinton.

Dead, though I'm sure this isn't what happened here, you could almost read this as a stealth appeal to red-meat conservatives, who feel perenially disenfranchised because we live in 2012 and not 1840.

That is to say, any move that looks insane to you and I has to be evaluated carefully for its potential appeal to what the GOP calls its base.

for real.

Brave men fought and died to preserve his right to tell women what to do with their uteruses.

Radio Controlled Ongressman Akin, if you were wondering.

Not sure what's meant by the "species" comment, or who exactly you're comparing us to? Chimps? I'm pretty sure most chimp sex is rape, if the concept is even meaningful when applied to non-human animals (hint, prolly not).

"Sorry miss but if you weren't secretly enjoying yourself, you should have ordered your hoo-hah to spray some o' that spermicidal venom at the offending semen."

What the fuck kind of health class did these people have?

Did I miss that, or did DQL post as I was posting? Either way, I agree.

He thinks introducing the concept of legitimate rape also introduces the concept of "illegitimate rape", and shears the number of abortions the US is required to use tax money for (those in response to a rape-induced pregnancy are exempt from the Hyde act.) by at least a half.

Considering that Republicans have been trying to redefine rape for a while now, and earlier this year tried to get STATUTORY RAPE, and "rape that uses drugs or other substances to incapacitate the victim" off the list of reasons for a Hyde act exemption, I guess we really shouldn't be so shocked by now.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/redefine-rape-hr-3 -abortion-stealth

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/August-2012 /How-the-GOP-Ended-Up-with-Todd-Akin/

'Scuse me, Hyde AMENDMENT. It's been a looong day.

He's not the best. He is, sadly, pretty average.

But we've got Claire McCaskill, too.

I think you need a notary public.