GOP Actions Speak Louder Than Todd Akin's Words

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"The only thing that could have shocked Republican leaders is that they didn’t say it first."

Republican Party leaders are shocked – shocked, I say! – that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) said something reprehensible about women and rape. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is shocked. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is shocked. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the GOP’s own vice-presidential nominee, is shocked. Shocked! So shocked, in fact, that all have asked Mr. Akin to drop out of his race, because he said something so shocking about women.

I’ve felt like I was watching the movie, Casablanca. I keep hearing the corrupt police chief Captain Renault tell Humphrey Bogart, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here.” Upon which the maître d’ hands him his winnings.

Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, is shocked, too. True, it took him a full day and two attempts to express that he was shocked. And true, it took him two days to call for Rep. Akins to quit the race. But we know how shocked Mr. Romney is because this time he didn’t simply say, “Those aren’t the words I would have used,” like he did when Rush Limbaugh called a grad student a “slut” and “prostitute.”

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And so we see all of these Republican leaders shocked and outraged at Rep. Akin’s reprehensible comments about women. Well, y’know…what Todd Akin’s said, at heart, is today’s Republican Party. This is what you get when you court the radical Far Religious Right as your base. This is what you get when you push out even moderates. This is what you get when welcome the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess, and Harold Simmonses of the world to buy up the Tea Party corporations and fund the core of your party.

http://open.salon.com/blog/robert_elisberg/2012/08/22/gop_actions_speak_louder_than_todd_akins_words_1

When Sarah Palin was the party's vice presidential candidate in 2008 she campaigned openly in favor of the position enunciated by Akin the other day.

In 2010 almost all the GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate and House embraced the Akin position.

Now we see Romney, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell and a slew of other Republican leaders calling upon Akin to pull out of the Senate race.

Is there any demand for Rep. Paul Ryan to step down as the candidate for vice president? As co-sponsor with Akin of every single one of Akin's radical anti-women's-rights bills, Ryan and Akin are birds of a feather.

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The concern by Republicans over the Akin remarks has nothing to do with disagreeing with what he said. The concern is that when the voters hear what Akin said they may realize that Akin's positions, which are repulsive to the majority of Americans, are the positions of the Republican Party itself.

http://peoplesworld.org/akin-ryan-rape-and-republican-hypocrisy/


Bill calls the GOP ‘a bunch of hypocrites’
http://current.com/shows/full-court-press/videos/bill-calls-the-gop-a-bunch-of-hypocrites/


Two Minutes After Missouri Deadline Passes, DSCC Mocks GOP Over Akin
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021175286

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