That Combover should be illegal!

It’s not the use of ‘legitimate’ that bothers me as much as his sheer ignorance of human biology. This man is involved in drafting policies and legislation about issues like rape, but can’t even be bothered to do some proper research to corrorobate whatever half-baked ideas he holds in his tiny mind.

He says that is the female “defence mechanism” doesnt kick in then there should be a punishment for the rapist not the child?

That moves away from being simply idiotic or mis-speaking. Disregarding his use of the word legitimate his view is still to impose extra punishment on a rapist if a child is conceived. Forget about the poor lady carrying the rape baby.

“By the grace of god we’ll win this” God and politics dont mix.

“If you tolerate this then your children will be next”

Gross Ignorance & incompetence – Akin’s version of women’s rights is obviously to be totally subordinate .

His Tea Party far right , supposed “Christian Values” are typical of what we hear now everyday from The Republican Party in the USA.

Muslims and various other religions and races are not welcome either to these people.

It just shows the dangers of the Romney – Ryan candidature for the presidency – Ryan and Akin recently co-sponsored a Bill that got hammered in the US putting a new “definition” of the word Rape.

These people are off the wall – but they are extremely dangerous to the World.

They will probably be preaching shortly that the World is flat !

I have very little sympathy for these creationist politicians. They are spreading fear & ignorance & this guy got caught out by his own propaganda. I am sure he did not intentionally mean to upset anyone with these statements but this is not the first time he suffered foot mouth disease so as far Im concerned he needs to fall on his sword.

American Politicians are getting thicker by the year Bush set the standard..Now its global.

legitimate rape sounds Like u need license for it .another dumb Yankee politician

We had this debate about this guy yesterday , he’s an idiot all that’s happened since is he’s been cold shouldered by republicans and clearly told that the republicans won’t back him with this claptrap so now he’s begging forgiveness on a tv ad. With his lack of understanding of biology and stupidity it’s better for everyone if he doesn’t win a seat and get to make legislation that affects millions of people , he seems far too clueless to be put into position of power.

That idiotic mindset doesn’t seem to be the providence of right wing american’s alone: http://www.prolifeinfo.ie/women/sexual-assault/pregnancy-as-a-result-of-rape/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19326666#

It is not the first time the six-term congressman, who is a long-time vocal opponent of relaxing abortion laws, has got into trouble on the issue of rape.

In 2011, he co-sponsored a bill that would have limited the government help available to women seeking abortions in the case of rape to cases of “forcible rape”.

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He trying to cover his ass now only because he has an election to lose.
I suspect he has lost a lot of the female vore in his area – and serve him right!

He’s an idiot!

With regard to “types of rape” there is ONE definition and one only.

The crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with him without their consent and against their will, especially by the threat or use of violence against them:

There are probably politicians with similar views in Ireland but who are sufficiently smart not to say so publicly.

Apparently the GoP have stopped funding him as punishment. However from talking to an American in that particular state he’s pretty far ahead and he’s actually going even further ahead.

If he wins his election I fully expect his Republican brothers to welcome him back to the fold. The Republican women will of course be looking nervously at their feet.

Agree Chris , but the “mis-spoke” is a load of ol nonsense anyway , it’s not like he meant to say one thing but said another , you can see in the clip that he was trying to claim that he had expert Medical people tell him that women who are ” legitimately” raped have a mechanism in the body that shuts down the ability to become pregnant ! Then when there was uproar he releases the ” I misspoke” but insists in the same statement that really this was democrats using his comment to distract from the economy! That dint work so he rushed out a tv ad asking for forgiveness with ingenious claims like ” the real fact is ..rape is bad” , he’s an idiot and now even his own party are saying …..your on your own on this one mr…doesn’t deserve I get into position to make legislation in my opinion

I agree Lex they’ll welcome him back if he wins…….. but be wary if American friends telling you things like he’s pulling further ahead …….thats not based on anything concrete even if u live in missouri, as that’s just spin , there’s been simply not enough time to gauge the impact in the polls since the controversy , he spent Monday cobbling together the apology tv ad ,then he was the told to consider his position for 24 hours , the party have stooped the funding and that’s going to hurt his numbers ….it takes a little time before the real impact of a controversy like this can be measured in any meaningful way , any poll numbers that do exist would be representative of before the weekends controversy broke.

Could Doug Stanhope or Jamie kilstein please wade in?

He should resign… Another bloody idiot

Regardless of the argument, if this guy admits he ‘misspoke’ on such an important and emotive issue, is he really fit to hold ANY kind of office????

I think this has been blown totally out of portion by sensational media and an awful choice of words. Looking at the clip posted by the journal yesterday it seemed as if he was using ‘legitimate’ interchangably with ‘real’ or ‘actual’ and not condoning any form of rape at all but distinguishing it from his belief that some ‘rape’ victims have in fact just been sleeping around. That view may be equally condemnable, but it is for that that he should be condemned.