docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

shit happens but he at least your friend didn't have to carry a baby conceived in violence anger and hate full term then nurse it, love it, raise it.......did he

micro Loc: Texas

The Republican Platform, now being drwfted, will include outlawing abortion even for rape and incest!!!! Blame the party!

PhotoGator Loc: Florida

Democratic Representative from Orlando, Florida said:
"The Republicans want you to die quickly"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpQ2MNaSDo

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/democratic-rep-republicans-want-you-to-die-quickly/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/09/30/dem-congressman-republicans-want-you-die-quickly-what-will-civility-crow

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

It's astonishing sometimes the contortions and distortions some people will go through to justify the unjustifiable. Akin was 'just speaking his mind' apparently. But let's look at what he said - he claimed that pregnancy resulting from rape is rare and that 'if it's a legitimate rape [and what's the difference between 'legitimate' and 'illegitimate' rape, anyway?]the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down'. That's not an opinion, not 'speaking his mind', it's a scientific claim and, guess what, it's not true! Well not according to available evidence, anyway. If Akin can point to any genuine evidence please let him do so. Until such time he is either ignorant and should shut up until he acquaints himself with the facts, or he's a liar. He's obviously a bright man, so my money's on the latter. Either way, no decent human being should feel able to defend him, let alone vote for him.

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

RixPix...Let us agree that what he said was medically WRONG. Also, his statement was 100% in agreement with repub actions and policy.

The republicans spend more time in women's underwear than women do.

It is just catching up...tom

ted45 Loc: Delaware

I never said I condoned rape and would want to see a women bear a child of rape. I will say that the laws regarding abortion are "settled law". I do not agree that a woman should be able to abort a child just because she wants to and then the public is obligated to pay for it. I can't believe you feel that is right.

I would also suggest that if you were someone who had your career destroyed just because some twit did not like the way you look: your "shit happens" remark would be totally unacceptable.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I haven't seen anyone here trying to defend Atkin or his comments, but rather the left trying to paint the republican party with the broad brush that are Atkins comments. I agree, the man is ill educated and certainly shows a lack of common sense and judgement, we don't need him in the Senate and there is a strong push by the republican party to cast him aside... He has already been informed by the RNC and by Crossroads that any funding that may have been available to his campaign has been pulled. They also sent him a clear message that he should suspend his campaign as of today.

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

I kind of thought that the 'he's just speaking his mind' comments amounted to some sort of defence of Akin. Hence my response. If you thought otherwise, fair enough. But, really, someone in his position should be taking more responsibility to ensure that what he says doesn't just pander to ignorance and blind prejudice. I'm glad that the Republican party is seeking to distance itself from him - tho I suspect that his views are shared by others in that party (not all, but some) and that this is more to do with political expedience than conviction. But that's just my opinion and I certainly wouldn't claim that it's fact. I'll be interested to see what position on abortion (particularly relating to victims of rape) the Republicans take into the forthcoming election, however.

CAM1017 Loc: Chiloquin, Oregon

Actually it does not surprise me at all! :roll:

gsrunyan Loc: Aurora, CO

Remember folks:

The Constitution guarantees all fools their right to their STUPID opinions.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Liberals are NOT the majority of this country. I have no clue where RixPix would get that idea. One can just look at the blue and red map of the states and see that such a statement is not valid.

The majority of Harry Reid's state voted against him and he would have lost... until they counted high concentration Reno and Las Vegas where special interest unionized casino workers voted for him as demanded by their union leadership. That's the only reason he won.

Reagan, on the other hand, won re-election by such a huge landslide that his opponent didn't even win his own home state. That was the Republican silent MAJORITY coming out to ensure the economic growth we were having at the time would continue and a Liberal candidate espousing "change" would not foul the nest in Washington for at least another 4 years. The silent majority has not changed and are still Conservative Republican.

Liberals depend on uniting minorities and creating enough votes to over ride the true majority. Liberals are thus NOT a majority. Put a herd of very different minority groups with their own agendas together and it's quite a number. Promise them all the world and they fall right in line and vote for the Liberal candidate. Let the silent majority feel confident about their candidate so that they don't rise up and vote and the Liberals convince undecided voters that they have a better plan and it's feasible for that coalition of minorities to outvote the majority. Liberals tend to be aggressive and Conservatives tend to be passive. So Conservatives seem less visible and less acknowledged - thus the moniker "silent majority."

Liberals are the loudest squeaky wheels in the machine known as our U.S. society so Liberal government officials oil them with money, pork spending, and pushing through Liberal legislation to get their votes.

Liberals hope to achieve "progress" through changing things and there are lots of minority people who think their situation needs to be somehow changed although their situations are very different.

Liberal ideas of progress is typically not seen as a good thing by Conservatives and many "progressive" ideas end up harming more than they help. As I said elsewhere on another thread: Those who are "seen" seem to benefit by Liberal actions while the "unseen" suffer and lose more than was gained by the "seen."

Years ago I overheard a group of Liberal senior citizens talking loudly to each other at a breakfast restaurant about how they wanted interest rates in the U.S. to double or triple so they'd have more income on their investments. It didn't matter to them in the slightest that 20% interest or higher (money was about 8% from the Fed at that time) would completely stall the economy, stop the housing market dead, and throw the country into financial disaster - their only concern was doubling or tripling their PERSONAL investment income. They didn't at all recognize that prices of everything would double during a financial disaster like that and they'd lose everything they gained and more. That's how Liberals think - short term with blinders on concerning what the long term consequences of their actions are.

The reality is that America has a silent majority, the conservatives who stay mostly quiet, take the abuse and insults of loud-mouthed liberals, and then vote for fiscal responsibility and reduced government invasion of their lives.

As a side note, I find it humorous that Daytona Beach could be considered a Conservative Republican stronghold in Florida when it has served for decades as Sodom & Gomorrah for up to 400,000 wild bikers, who knows how many hundreds of thousands of hormone-poisoned sexaholic drunken Spring Break college kids, Black Biker Week, millions dragging their kegs in RVs to NASCAR races, and all the other morally-bankrupt week-long activities that take place there.

If Daytona Beach is majority Conservative Republican they certainly do a fine job of masking it. Then again, maybe they're the "rich getting richer" business owners profiting enormously from morally-deficient Liberals. That would make sense.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

The republicans if smart will do little more than voice their support for the sanctity of life...

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

Well if they do, they can't complain if others press them to be a bit more specific, because that's just mumbo-jumbo to me!

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

First, very few women choose to have an abortion just cuz they don't want to carry a baby to term. Are there some? Sure but to paint all women with a broad brush isn't any different than me or you saying "all republicans are dimwits" based on the remarks of a few. Is it?

Secondly, if I recall in the story of your co-worker you said 3 (three)
women accused him of sexual harrassment. Had it been 1 woman it becomes his word against her's....but three women? All accusing your friend of sexual harrassment? In order for all three to be lying that makes a conspiracy - I think there are factors that you are not privy too and it's just easier to use this incident of an example of women and men behaving badly.

PhotoGator Loc: Florida

Is Joe "Blablabla" Biden taking responsability on his remark warning blacks that Republicans will place us back in chains?