'Legitimate Rape' Guy Takes Back His Apology & Makes It Worse

Rewrite: ‘Legitimate rape,’ take 2?

Fischer Cites Todd Akin in Making the Case that the GOP is not 'the Stupid Party' | Right Wing Watch

Fischer Cites Todd Akin in Making the Case that the GOP is not 'the Stupid Party' | Right Wing Watch
"Fischer recognized that sometimes conservatives might "misspeak" on occasion, as Todd Akin did with his infamous "legitimate rape" remark ... but that just proves Fischer's point because Akin was "completely accurate about that," thus demonstrating that "our ideas are not stupid and the people who advocate them are not stupid":"

Meet Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s Todd Akin

Meet Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s Todd Akin: Virginia’s Republican Party appears poised to nominate state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to be its candidate for governor in 2013 — embracing a man whose extreme political views bear striking resemblance to those of unsuccessful 2012 Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO). With his fervent anti-science, anti-choice, and anti-LGBT, anti-federal government activism, Akin’s extreme positions [...]/p

Akin opens door to disagreeing with Civil Rights Act

After shunning Todd Akin for his "legitimate rape" remarks, Republicans have renewed their support for their candidate against Senator Claire McCaskill, a move they may regret as Akin continues to make outrageous statements, implicating them by association.

GOP Senate Candidate Akin: ‘Free Enterprise’ Means Being Allowed To Deny Equal Pay To Women

GOP Senate Candidate Akin: ‘Free Enterprise’ Means Being Allowed To Deny Equal Pay To Women: Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has struggled with a well-established woman problem in his Senate campaign, ever since he claimed women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.” After he said his opponent, incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), was not “ladylike,” her campaign released a video of Akin suggesting that businesses should be allowed to pay [...]/p

RNC Chair Reverses Course, Says Republican Party Will ‘Absolutely’ Support Todd Akin

RNC Chair Reverses Course, Says Republican Party Will ‘Absolutely’ Support Todd Akin: Republicans, stuck with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) in the Missouri Senate race after the dropout deadline passed this week, have hit the fifth stage of grief: acceptance. After Akin declared last month that women cannot get pregnant from “legitimate rape” because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” nearly [...]/p

Akin does it again

Todd Akin does it again, saying Senator Claire McCaskill's debate performance was not "ladylike" and like a "wildcat out of the cage." TheRoot.com's Keli Goff and Sam Stein of The Huffington Post join Ed Schultz to discuss Akin's latest comments and other big Senate races.

Republicans begin to rally around Todd Akin

The deadline for Congressman Todd Akin to withdraw from his Senate race against Sen. Claire McCaskill has passed-- and now Republicans are rallying around the candidate they were previously asking to step down.