Oh, Forehead, You Truly Are Comedy Gold..

Todd Akin In 2008: Doctors Give Abortions To Women Who Aren't Pregnant.  If there's no brain in there, how does his head keep its shape?  Huffington Post, with delicious, delicious video to boot!

Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin sparked national outrage in August when he justified his opposition to abortion by claiming that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." However, the Republican congressman's now-infamous remarks are not the first time he's made a scientifically questionable statement on abortion.

As Slate's Amanda Marcotte reported Tuesday, Akin gave a speech on the House floor in 2008 denouncing abortion providers as "terrorists," claiming that they sometimes perform abortions on women who "are not actually pregnant":

"It is no big surprise that we fight the terrorists because they are fundamentally un-American, and yet we have terrorists in our own culture called abortionists. One of the good pieces of news why we are winning this war is because there are not enough heartless doctors being graduated from medical schools. There is a real shortage of abortionists. Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of medical profession? And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die."

Akin's allegation of doctors performing abortions on non-pregnant women is particularly puzzling, as, by definition, an abortion cannot be performed if there is no pregnancy to terminate.

Akin, a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, also gave a speech in 2005 on stem cell research, expressing his concern that a science-fiction story his daughter wrote about humans being harvested for body parts could become reality.

"Oppose public funding that destroys little yous and mes, and oppose this harvest of destruction," he urged his congressional colleagues considering a stem cell research bill.

Despite the overwhelming backlash to Akin's "legitimate rape" claim, the Republican has a good chance of beating incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in next month's election. The latest polling shows Akin with a lead of one percentage point over McCaskill, and a number of Republicans, including Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint, and Newt Gingrich, have come out in support of Akin in recent weeks. (Thank God my neighbors aren't idiots, too..)
  Sounds like someone needs to worry less about America's "culture of death," and worry more about his own "culture of retardation." 

Scariest fragment from the article:  "Akin, a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology,.."

No worries, though, Forehead: If you don't win, you can always take your act on tour!  The world always needs more stand-up comedians.  You're already twice as funny as Dennis Miller ever was! 

Scott Brown calls on Todd Akin to quit after ‘legitimate’ rape remark

Since today's Republicans only listen to other Republicans..  Raw Story.  Excerpts(Video at the link):

Republican Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown on Monday called on his party’s Missouri Senate candidate to drop out following his claim that women who were victims of “legitimate” rape could not get pregnant.


“As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong,” Brown said in a statement. “There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin’s statement was so far out of bounds that he should resign the nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri.”
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“Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told The National Review. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.”


Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) said that he also found Akin’s comment “offensive and reprehensible.”
And:
Update (11:30 a.m. ET): Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin suggested that Republicans should reconsider Akin’s nomination.


“There’s no sugar-coating or whitewashing this. It wasn’t a ‘gaffe.’ It was ignorant, garbled nonsense,” Malkin wrote. “The question for Republicans in Missouri is whether sticking by self-inflicted-wounded Akin is more important than securing a U.S. Senate majority.” (It's cute that Lulu acts like she's never heard Akin talk before, isn't it?)

Update (2:15 p.m. ET): New Mexico Senate candidate Heather Wilson (R) called on Akin to withdraw.

“As a woman and a mother, I found Representative Akin’s comments this weekend to be sickening and deeply offensive. There is no such thing as ‘legitimate rape.’ His remarks undermine his ability to command the respect necessary for leadership and he should step aside,” Wilson said in a statement.

And all it took was one super outrageous comment..

This only comes as a shock to anyone not familiar with either Akin himself, or any other Tea Party anti-abortion candidate.  This is just a window into his mind.. 

Hi America:  Welcome to the nightmare that is Missouri politics.  As of today, Akin is ahead in the polls.  That should change by the next polling cycle, but I don't know..  Some of my neighbors are super dumbasses..  No Republican pol seems to be too stupid for Missouri..  Please prove me wrong Missourians..