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They already love him, and they love him for his retrograde beliefs. They can also count votes, though, which is the only reason they're keeping him at arm's length.

People need to look into Obama's record on abortion to see if he's "reasonable".

Mr. Akin does indeed reflect the beliefs of many of the majority in the Republican Party that are willing to regress the country back to the early 20th and beyond to the 19th Century. He does not make Mitt look any more reasonable simply by the facts that Mr. Romney does not own his own positions but is beholden to his handlers and those whose actually control the reigns of power in the GOP. Akin's anti-intelligence stances on many issues of importance to our country signifies exactly what is wrong with the religious right in this country.

The GOP love anything as long as you're Male, White, Christian and Heterosexual, and Married to a woman, of course.

I will laugh my backside off if this guy wins.

Are we still talking about abortion? Democrat/Republican (doesn't matter), our politicians need to figure it out and move onto more pressing issues.

From the article: "With one cockeyed answer last month to a question in a television interview in St. Louis, Akin made the rest of his party look moderate." I'd be more likely to buy that "moderate" characterization if I didn't remember the interview in which Mitt Romney told Mike Huckabee that he (Romney) would support a fetal personhood amendment to Massachusetts' constitution. I'd be more likely to buy that characterization if I didn't remember that Mitt Romney promises to "get rid of" of Planned Parenthood--which provides care to about one-third of Title X patients--to help reduce the deficit. I'd be more likely to buy that characterization if I didn't remember Mitt Romney's tepid words ("It's not the language I would have used") referring to Rush Limbaugh's three-day misinformed diatribe against Sandra Fluke. I'd be more likely to buy that opinion if I didn't remember Todd Akin's fruitless search for the language Romney would have used. I'd be more likely to buy that characterization if I didn't remember that Paul Ryan and Todd Akin cosponsored fetal personhood legislation and voted in lockstep for legislation which would codify their misapprehensions about sex and gender. I'd be more likely to buy that opinion if I didn't remember the GOP's RNC-pandering to women--who are, after all, the majority population and who exercise the right to vote both in greater numbers and in greater percentages than men. I'd be more likely to buy that opinion if I didn't remember that the GOP platform calls for a ban on abortion in all cases--including rape, incest and when the life of the pregnant woman is endangered. I'd be more likely to buy that characterization if I didn't remember that Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan to be his running mate and that the Vice President of the United States casts a vote in case of a tie. What it comes down to for me is that Mitt Romney's idea of "moderate" on an entire range of issues would be reflected in his choice of Supreme Court nominees.

Simply because Akin literally moves the goal posts off the field hardly makes the rest of the republican team look reasonable. Given Akin and Ryan share the same positions on reproductive issues, the only difference between the two is that Akin put his foot in his mouth and Ryan hasn't, at least yet. Cold comfort

When this guy wins I am going to have a good laugh.

Obama not only favors abortion from conception to birth, he wants YOU to pay for it. And Carlson and liberals call Republicans unreasonable. Please.