Todd Akin refusing to step down!

[hobbsyoyo]

Its not always, but I've heard that it has been.

Obviously we all know an 18 year old sleeping with a 17 year old is basically just consensual sex with no "Iffiness" to it. I deliberately made it 18 and 15 so that it might be a little iffy. Even still, its "Iffy." Its not "Rape." Rape isn't "Gray" its flat out nonconsensual. That's the way I feel about legal terminology. When "Rape" can actually be "non-forcible" I think it almost cheapens the word to where we have to use words like "Legitimate rape" when we shouldn't have too.

Oh, and yes, "Forcible" can be more than just physically holding someone down. Purposely drugging someone, for instance, would apply the same way. As would sleeping with a child. I'd shoot anyone on the spot who was practicing either of the two in the process of the act in order to stop it if needed.

But drunkenness? I'd just call the cops. Yeah, its wrong, but consent is sometimes murky in that type of area.

Spoken like someone who has no firsthand knowledge of sex, drugs, alcohol, rape or the various interactions that can happen between all these things.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Well oddly, McCaskill is in a weird position of NOT calling for his ouster. Her campaign actually ran some almost pro-Akins ads because they felt they had the best chance of beating Akins out of the other candidates.

She did that for good reason. Just look what happened.

Missouri is a conservative state and it's hard to run against conservatives here, until they go full-nutjob. Even so, I expect Akin will still win.

 

[bhsup]

She did that for good reason. Just look what happened.

Missouri is a conservative state and it's hard to run against conservatives here, until they go full-nutjob. Even so, I expect Akin will still win.

There are plenty of successful Democrats in Missouri politics. Mel Carnahan was a very popular Democratic governor. Or current governor is a Democrat (Jay Nixon) and should easily win re-election. Current Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D).

Yes, it's trending more republican lately, but that tends to go in cycles. When you get down to the local level, in particular, it's much more of a mixed bag. Though we did just elect a Republican coroner!!

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

I fear that Akin will be elected, and our country will know truly just how crazy the Republican Party has become.

Whatever happened to Lincoln, or Teddy Roosevelt, or Eisenhower, hell, even Reagan? I'm almost certain none of those people would be sticking up for comments like this. Yet here we have Akin... leading in the polls.

 

[Murky]

Akin's stance on Rape/Abortion is just the tip of the iceberg of nutty ideas.

Here's just some of them:

End free school lunches for underprivileged children (they can go dumpster diving instead)
End the federal student loan program. Students/Parents will have to pay for college even when they can't.
He doesn't know if climate change is real or not. Thinks drought is an act of God.

It's just on and on of far-right nuttiness.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

...Sounds like your typical Republican to me.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There are plenty of successful Democrats in Missouri politics. Mel Carnahan was a very popular Democratic governor. Or current governor is a Democrat (Jay Nixon) and should easily win re-election. Current Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D).

Yes, it's trending more republican lately, but that tends to go in cycles. When you get down to the local level, in particular, it's much more of a mixed bag. Though we did just elect a Republican coroner!!

Our (Missourian) Democrats are conservative by the standards of most other non-southern states.

And I should have restricted my original statement to state-wide office as that was what I was talking about. We do have a Democratic governor, but again, he's pretty conservative. If the current trends hold (and more evangelicals are moving into the state all the time) he may be the last for a long time.

 

[JollyRoger]

Though we did just elect a Republican coroner!!

Got to get those dead bodies registered correctly. Don't want them voting in a Democratic primary.