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Special Report
Bill Clinton and Legitimate Rape
Clinton rape scandal resurfaces in Akin controversy: The McCaskill-Clinton videos.
“…the threat, use and cultural acceptance of sexual force is a pervasive process of intimidation that affects all women.” — Feminist Susan Brownmiller in her 1975 bestseller Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
“Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn’t make sense to me.” — President Obama on Congressman Todd Akin’s use of the term “legitimate rape”
“Bill Clinton to Have Leading Role at Party’s Convention” — July 30, 2012 New York Times story announcing that the Obama campaign has selected the former President to nominate Obama
So.
The Obama White House has decided to legitimize rape.
Talk about a mistake.
President Obama, after a considerable absence, abruptly appeared in the White House pressroom the other day to address Congressman Todd Akin’s wildly offensive comment about “legitimate rape.” In the President’s own words: “Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn’t make sense to me.”
In a stroke the President — not to mention his allies on Capitol Hill, in the media and left-leaning interest groups — resurrected one of the most divisive moments of the 1990’s.
That moment?
What NBC reporter Lisa Myers was said in the day to have called the “very credible” allegation that Bill Clinton raped a Clinton campaign worker named Juanita Broaddrick.
In a ricochet doubtless unintended, the decision by the White House to personally insert the President into the Akin “legitimate rape” controversy now focuses attention on two stark realities:
- · The selection of Clinton to give the nominating speech for President Obama in a primetime TV slot at the Democrats’ convention.
- · Re-surfacing videos of Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill campaigning with Clinton while saying she “wouldn’t want him near my daughter.” Videos like this one and this one of McCaskill on Meet the Press.
In other words, both Obama — not to mention McCaskill — are now essentially and literally “legitimizing rape” by the selection of Clinton as Obama’s nominator — and as the man who raised funds for McCaskill in the first place.
Will McCaskill return the funds Clinton raised for her in 2006? What do you think?
Just call it the legitimizing of rape.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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aware| 8.23.12 @ 6:21AM
Just keep the distractions alive, Jeffy.
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 7:52AM
Bill Clinton never Raped Juanita Broderick. Just don't ask him cause he won't answer the question.
Ask the Press to ask him. When all of this came to light he was meekly asked one question by a trembling teary eyed young Reporter, if these allegations were true and he replied: "Talk to my Lawyer" and he was NEVER ASKED ANOTHER.
Ask Carville. He'll tell ya that "Juanita" is what you get when you Drag a Hundred Dollar Bill through a Filthy Taco Bell. He'll tell ya that you must be a Sex Pervert and that all those Women are a buncha Lowlife Liars and that he never saw any Rapes going on, just the back of some Fat Gal's Head, that he still believes to this day was Hillary's.
Ask Begala. He'll tell ya that It's all the Republican's Fault and if they would just get out of the way, nobody would get Raped.
Ask Alzheimer's Pelosi if making a verbal Faux Pas about the aftermath of a Brutal Rape on an Innocent Woman is the same or WORSE than actually Physically Raping Her and telling her to put Ice on her Swollen Lip, as you're wiping clean your Johnson, with her hair.
"I'll have to get Raped to know what it feels like, and find out who this Johnson person, is."
Alcee Hastings is an Impeached Federal Judge.
Charlie Rangel is a Tax Cheating Crook.
Harry Ried is a Lying Sack a Sh*t, who's been in the back pocket of the Las Vegas Mob, all of his Political Life.
Chuck Schumer is a Slimy, Sleazy, back of Puke, and is the Living Personification of why every Anti-Semite hates Jews.
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 8:17AM
Barack Obama is Suing the State of Ohio to stop it from Allowing Early Voting for Military Personnel.
44 of our American States, have seen Increases in their Unemployment Rates.
President Death to America is Gutting our Military. He's Gutting Medicare. He has STOPPED ALL FUNDING for Social Security via his Elimination of FICA.
Every American Company is sitting at the Docks with their feet in the water, waiting for the Election results, to make the decision to Stay Here, or Go someplace where they are actually WANTED.
America's Cities are fast becoming Apocalyptic No Man's Lands. No Industry. No Jobs. No Money. Just roving bands of Muderous Gangs, who Own the Night, take what they like, and Kill what they don't.
We have another American City filing for Bankruptcy every week, it seems, while $5 Trillion in New Debt just became $6 Trillion, and there is NO HOPE in sight.
I have an idea.
Let's talk about a Congressman who said something Stupid, because everybody knows that, That Never Happens.
We have to stop entertaining their Bullsh*t Accusations. We hold all the Cards. Everything that's going on, in this Country, is going on, ON HIS WATCH.
The Buck Stops with Him!
And, it's high time we Ignored Them, and took the fight to The Domestic Enemy within.
Hallelujah.
Holy Sh*t.
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 5:07PM
But Tim, Purp got his gay rights, and nothing is more important than that, the country be damned!
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 5:54PM
True.
Occam's Tool| 8.23.12 @ 6:13PM
Broaddrick should have a speech to make at the Republican National Convention.
Dobbs| 8.23.12 @ 7:27PM
Amen, OT!
Appleby| 8.23.12 @ 7:42AM
When two men get together they talk about sex. Regardless of the situation.
Could we change the subject?
Pecos Pete| 8.23.12 @ 8:54AM
Appleby: Agreed, the subject should be changed. But, men don't talk about sex when then get together as an exclusive topic as you suggest. In fact, most of the time they prefer to talk about sports, politics, jobs, customers, employees and rampant regulations that are killing their jobs and businesses.
Dai Alanye | 8.23.12 @ 10:36AM
Rape is not so much sex as it is predation. Keep that in mind.
Dobbs| 8.23.12 @ 7:28PM
It's about power and control.
Occam's Tool| 8.23.12 @ 6:16PM
Appleby: actually, we don't. Not after high school, that is. Women are much filthier than men, on average.
I'm a psychiatrist with over 20 years of counselling experience. Sorry, ma'am, but you're wrong and Pecos Pete is correct.
Skippy| 8.25.12 @ 1:45PM
No we don't.
Boys do; men do not.
Perhaps the men you know do.
Perhaps that's why you live alone.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.23.12 @ 7:54AM
Bill Clinton was a serial molester and it's ironic that he is introducing Barack Obama. Bill Clinton is also an admitted felon having lied to a federal Grand Jury. Ironically, so did Hillary Clinton but for some reason she was never indicted for lying.
The lesson you can take away is that Democrats don't care about rape or even murder when it comes to one of their own. Proof: Ted Kennedy was guilty of at least manslaughter of a woman but got off with a traffic ticket and a small fine.
For years afterwards the liberal press loved him and referred to him as the Lion of the Senate and the residents of Massachusetts voted the murderer back into office again and again.
Standards are only standards when you have standards. When you are a criminal you could care less about standards. Criminality is the antithesis of standards. Such is the condition of being a Democrat or a member of the main stream press.
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 8:37AM
It's not Ironic.
It's predictable.
The Double Standards of the Media have been going on for so long, that they've ingrained themselves in to the Liberal Media's DNA.
While going after Akin with Both Barrels and a Knife, they will defend Bill Caligula by calmly explaining that - While their guy may have been accused of an "ALLEGED" Rape, by a well known Lying Mexican Slut that nobody believes, because she's such a Big Whore, and spends most of her nights in the Bowling Alley's Mens Room?
Their guy never talks about Rape, because he's a Souther Gentleman, and has too much Class for such things.
It's a Mental Disorder, usually associated with Cults, Radical Fundamentalist Islam, and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms and Licking Frogs.
Other than that?
You are absolutely correct.
Tom Kyba| 8.23.12 @ 6:54PM
You nailed it. That's the slimy trick liberals use and that the filth stream media lets them get away with. Because every situation, no matter how comparible, will always have some differences, the Dems simply say, "yeah but our guys case is DIFFERENT". This is followed by Pravda agreeing with them, and so on to the next Republican mess, real or imagined.
Oldefarte| 8.23.12 @ 10:07PM
TLP, I hate to lower your reasoned argument with some very basic humor [which I retrieved from another website] but thought you etc may get a chuckle out of the following [AND PLEASE, THIS IS FOR ADULT VIEWING ONLY]:
http://youtu.be/8sAjIKTMICg
TLP| 8.24.12 @ 9:06PM
Thanks, OF.
I did.
Hang in there, Buddy.
God is on our side.
I promise you.
Dobbs| 8.23.12 @ 7:28PM
Bubba is the gift that keeps on giving.
fmm| 8.23.12 @ 8:08AM
Again, Akin needs to explain why he used the term legitimate rape. When I first heard the term I interpreted this as him meaning cases of actual rape, as opposed to feigned claims of rape. Colleges today are rife with claims of rape which were actual instances of consensual sex when the woman has second thoughts or wants to get even with the man for some other reason. If this is what he meant, then he should build his whole campaign around the issue, slamming liberals for their insincereity and clarifying his positions on abortion.
Appleby| 8.23.12 @ 8:51AM
I took it to mean "if you get pregnant, you were not raped.
And of course, if you did get pregnant, you did that with no assistance from the father, who is so outa there...
rightasrain| 8.23.12 @ 9:06AM
I took it to be a wrong word choice when he meant to say "forcible" (as opposed to statutory). I thought he was trying to say that the stress of a forcible or violent rape often causes the body to shut down (a questionable medical theory) and prevent conception and that's why the number of abortions that are the result of rape is small. I never thought he was saying that if you got pregnant it couldn't be rape. But if that's what everyone thought he was saying I finally get why everyone was so "shocked" and "offended."
rightasrain| 8.23.12 @ 9:30AM
On second thought, Appleby, Akin could not have meant what you suggest. He's against abortion even in cases of rape or incest so he obviously agrees that you can get pregnant from a rape. He just believes that the number of abortions from rape is small and it is--whether due to his 'shutting down' theory or because, please God, the rape occurred just once.
Alej| 8.23.12 @ 1:34PM
Appleby| 8.23.12 @ 8:51AM
I took it to mean "if you get pregnant, you were not raped.
Is English your native language ? ?
MK48| 8.23.12 @ 6:35PM
And yesterday you gave me sh*t for questioning apple queen......and IT only speaks canadian.
Thinking evel thoughts about mormons as well.
WillyP | 8.23.12 @ 7:30PM
Appleby, I don't see how you got that from what he said. He never said you 'can't' get pregnant from being raped, he said the female body had ways to 'try' to shut it down. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, I do seem to remember reading something similar years ago, that the stress and fear of a forced rape made pregnancy unlikely.
Just Googled 'stress getting pregnant', this is from the first result:
-- Can stress get in the way of getting pregnant? | BabyCenter
TeaPartyNow| 8.23.12 @ 10:26AM
fmm, I took it the same way, that some cases of rape are false claims. But it's too late to go back. The right has already destroyed any chance to redeem itself on anything with this. Or fight for social conservatism. It merely swoons to the liberal medias every whim.
This shows that the right is incapable of standing on its own two feet today. Romney/Ryan is a disaster of fearful apology. The right is showing its' backside, and will be "surprised" when it gets shot down by the American People for being just utterly pathetic.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.23.12 @ 8:12AM
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for Juanita Broaddrick. She could have reported the alleged rape to the police, who would have investigated it, and turned it over to the courts for prosecution, where a jury would have decided the matter.
The only thing we have now is an accusation.
Broaddrick chose the path of political expediency. If she had come forward at the time of the alleged incident, Bill Clinton might never have been president. For that reason, she doesn't deserve anything but our contempt.
As does Akin, for other reasons.
Jack London| 8.23.12 @ 8:31AM
Not only that but her only sworn affidavit on this denied the allegations. She said: "During the 1992 Presidential campaign there were unfounded rumors and stories circulated that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies... These allegations are untrue ...."
Lord's article as usual is based on fantasy - he wants Clinton to be a convicted rapist. But he isn't.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.23.12 @ 9:12AM
Jeffrey points out that she couldn't lie to a federal prosecutor, so that's why she changed her story. In other words, it took the threat of a perjury charge for her to tell the alleged truth about Bill Clinton. Before that, her honesty (or lack of honesty) was dictated by her politics. So she lied for Bill Clinton for years, and we're supposed to feel sorry for her, or take her seriously? Forgetaboutit.
Anthony| 8.23.12 @ 9:20AM
Hey Jack, I have a box of cigars that you might be interested in. They're a bit used, but I suspect you'll still like them all the same.
Warrior| 8.23.12 @ 10:47AM
Now that you've cleared up Ms. Broaddrick. Let's talk about:
Eileen Wellstone, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Regina Hopper Blakely, Kathleen Willey, Sandra Allen, James, Kathy Bradshaw, Cristy Zercher, Paula Jones, Carolyn Moffet, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers , Dolly Kyle Browning, Sally Perdue, Betty Dalton, Denise Reeder, the names that were withheld on incidents at the U. of Arkansas and Yale.
Clinton is a real role model all right. Not being convicted is now the standard. Another reason you love Bill Ayers.
Jack London| 8.23.12 @ 10:56AM
Thing is, there are many right wing politicians who have been caught with their pants down too. If you were to have a play-off I expect it would go into overtime.
Warrior| 8.23.12 @ 1:34PM
When the troll has no answer, triangulate. My fault for responding. I will not make that mistake again.
spike59| 8.23.12 @ 4:17PM
thing is, there's a difference between being 'caught with your pants down' and forcibly raping a woman-which is what Clinton did; not just Broaddrick, but Gracen and Wellstone
Occam's Tool| 8.23.12 @ 6:17PM
The difference being that when the Right wingers are caught, they get disowned by the GOP, whereas you Dhimmis LOVE your child rapists.
Tom Kyba| 8.23.12 @ 6:59PM
Your slip is showing. Demand answers immediately whenever you think you've put one over(in as smarmy a manner as possible), but deflect the discussion back to Republicans when your heeero is challenged. Oops, Jack fell off his high horse.
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 8:56AM
Nobody's asking for Sympathy from you, ya Piece a Shit.
We're asking for Consistency.
According to you, ya piece a Sh*t. We should have nothing but CONTEMPT for HER?
He was the Attorney General of the Good Ole Boy Barefoot State. The home base of The Arkansas Chugabug, and the KKK. What chance was she gonna have - A girl with a Spanish name - in a State that has a Star on its Flag, Comemorating the Confederacy, going up against a guy who used State Police to procure women to watch him Pull Down His Pants, ya Piece a Sh*t.
Ladies and Gentlemen. Let's hear it for C. Vernon Crisler. He's quite the Classy Guy, isn't he.
These MFers, like Vern, will NEVER Turn on Their Own. No matter what. No Exceptions.
It's HER Fault.
She brought it on, HERSELF.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if this Piece a Sh*t said "THE B*TCH WANTED IT".
Have a nice time in Hell, Vern.
I hear it's Warm this time a year.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.23.12 @ 9:06AM
TLP, or whoever you are: We encourage readers to share and discuss their thoughtful and relevant comments about this Spectator article. Comments are routinely monitored and will be deleted if profane, bigoted, or grossly impolite. Please be respectful. (And don't feed the trolls!) Thank you.
Dai Alanye | 8.23.12 @ 10:47AM
Crisler begs for the sympathy he won't extend to Juanita Broderick.
ansonheath| 8.23.12 @ 11:12AM
Callousness masked by a civil tongue deceives the simpletons who go along to get along, without considering the substance of the matter.
"Satan always comes masked as an angel of light, eh?"
Sly weasels who hide their true intent by smooth sounding words and legal talking points deserve condemnation, although I would change the 'sh..' word to 'dung'. It's more biblical. That's why I'm with TLP and others who expose the fabricators.
Anyone familiar with scripture in both old and new testaments, knows that God doesn't pull any punches on those who reject His authority. In fact, much of His message through His prophets was about the 'legal' justifications that the nation's leaders used against the populace at large. Nothin much has changed, has it?
Vengeance is mine! So saith the Lord!!!
TinaB| 8.23.12 @ 9:30PM
Ansonheath, you are spot on.
I used to tell my late husband that the Lord would avenge far more acutely than he could ever imagine, and all those who had done him harm, and there were many, would gain their just due. He had to learn to leave his abusers in His hands. Now he is with Our Lord and I'm down here repeating your quote to my children and myself. Thanks.
RCV| 8.23.12 @ 11:43AM
If TAS enforced their policy, TLP would have nothing to say.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.23.12 @ 12:16PM
Very true....
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 6:01PM
As opposed to you, who always has Nothing to Say.
Nothing True, anyway.
I speak The Truth.
Everytime.
Every Day.
Unlike you, who just regurgitates the Talking Points of the day, for your False Messiah, as he brings this Country down.
Tom Kyba| 8.23.12 @ 7:00PM
Waahh waahhh, me no like you. meesa go home now.
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 5:48PM
Sorry triple namer, I stand w/TLP, we've been too nice to you libs for far too long,it's fightin' time!
Dai Alanye | 8.23.12 @ 10:44AM
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
You people need to get your heads on straight. Criticize the woman for letting Clinton get away with the crime, if you wish, but show her some sympathy, for God's sake!
Jeff| 8.23.12 @ 5:01PM
C Vernon...
Not to put too fine a point on it but the chief law enforcement officer of Arkansas was then-Attorney General Clinton...with lines into every police department in the state. Not to mention the soon-to-be governor. This was an ordinary woman...no wonder she was terrified.
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 5:34PM
And you really believe that, Crisler? Then you have no clue how polital power controls the courts. Um, he was att'y gen'l!
Remember Gennifer Flowers did report, as did some otheres, so why is Billy Bob not behind bars?
Lullabys Legends and Lies| 8.23.12 @ 8:20AM
Just wait until Bill Clinton passes on!! If you thought the way they cried about Teddy Kennedy was pathetic, just wait till Old Bill's dead!! Clinton was the luckiest President of all time, he inherited an economy that a 5-year old couldn't have ruined, and he's gotten away with every crime he's ever committed, and has never had to answer for anything negative he's ever done!! And he's still their hero!! Some hero, huh? Bill's a Rapist, and as President Obama said, "rape is rape"!! But not for Bill, the hero Rapist of the Democratic Party!!
Louis Jenkins| 8.23.12 @ 8:38AM
All hail the Rapist n Chief! The minute Todd Akin said his "dastardly" comment, one's thought's went to the man who will be at the Democratic Convention. Republicans, or Democrats, are proving they are one and the same. Both sides are screaming for Akin's head. Legitimate rape, or illegitimate, came from a libral women's magazine, or said Rush yesterday. The shutting down of the women's body also came from the same source, so Akin didn't invent the idea. Are the Republicans so confident they will have the majority this fall that they're willing to throw Akin out? You win a war one battle at a time. The Democrats jumped on this comment to do just that.
benny havens| 8.23.12 @ 8:47AM
Either Chelsea is someone else’s or he lied about the mumps.
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 9:02AM
She belongs to them.
Seeing as how the Elephant Man is dead and buried, that Pail a Worms, Horse Faced, future Mrs. Chaz Bono, is all Clinton.
She's got INBRED written all over her.
Why, she even Married a Guy who looks just like Daddy.
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 5:53PM
Ms Chaz, love it!
TLP| 8.23.12 @ 6:05PM
I try.
TinaB| 8.23.12 @ 9:38PM
Oh Timmie, you have such a way with words. My hubby would love you like I do. Keep us laughing and keep them crying.
And to the whiney babies, go away.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.23.12 @ 9:02AM
I read somewhere she has Web Hubbell's lips.
Dai Alanye | 8.23.12 @ 10:49AM
Tempting as it might be, let's not pick on the kid. In other words, don't behave the way Dems do.
spike59| 8.23.12 @ 4:19PM
have some sympathy; it's not easy being Janet Reno's kid
Warrior| 8.23.12 @ 5:07PM
Reno fathered a child?
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 5:55PM
funny, in fact hilarious!
Anthony| 8.23.12 @ 9:18AM
As I said in another post, Clinton, the sexual predator, and sociopath-in-chief, is all that Dope & Chains have to distract America from 4 years of disasterous policies of the Kenyan Muslim Marxist.
However, I'm glad the "new media" have dug up all these juicy quotes from McCaskill et al.
Yep, it'll be a hoot watching Lit'le Abner trying to save the Muslim's political bacon!!!
squalis| 8.23.12 @ 9:38AM
Are you accusing Obama, the Libs and the media of hypocrisy?
I don't understand.
cicero| 8.23.12 @ 9:52AM
The Party of Evil, and the Party of Stupid. Both are predictable in their reactions. The Dems gather round and protect their own, no matter what evil they perpetrate. The Repubs trash their own at every chance, just to show how damn just they are. Things never change. All that was needed was for Akin to be allowed to explain the meaning of his words (spin if you will). However, the Stupid Party never got that far. They immediately jumped on him, and began gathering the wood for the burning.
Dai Alanye | 8.23.12 @ 10:51AM
Correct, unfortunately.
Von Mises Jr| 8.23.12 @ 9:59AM
"Of Means and Ends" (Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" 1971)
- "First, One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's distance from the scene of conflict" - this is why Broaddrick's rape is fine as long as McCaskill’s daughter is safe.
- "The third rule of the ethics of means and ends is that in war the ends justify almost any means" - in other words, too bad if the tart got bitten and raped.
- "The seventh rule of ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics" - re-election and continuance of progressive policies justifies rape and who knows what else.
This is what Obama taught at Chicago Law School. His advisors such as Axelrod and Plouffe were weaned on this ideology. McCaskill has imbibed it.
RAM| 8.23.12 @ 10:11AM
A song for Akin to ponder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rb13ksYO0s
TeaPartyNow| 8.23.12 @ 10:19AM
Another opportunity to talk about the social issues in a winning way for conservatism, refused by romney/ryan. It isn't enough to play it "safe" and condemn Akin. Romney/Ryan should have opened up the issue, and won it. If they were pro-conservatism, they would have.
The right is trying to win by not fighting anything. I wonder how long before they wonder why they keep losing everything. Memo to conservatives: You no longer have a leader that believes in what you believe in enough to fight for you.
The American People suffer with both parties now. And if the right wanted to win, they should have got someone with some fight. It's just sad.
MK48| 8.23.12 @ 10:37AM
10-4......TPN
R Martin| 8.23.12 @ 11:38AM
The war on women is being waged by the Democrats, but they have convinced a lot of voters that the occupying armies are all wearing Republican uniforms. And the main thrust of this war is abortion. Who should pay for contraceptives is a minor side issue.
It has long amazed me that Republicans cannot deflect this attack. They just keep getting stuck in the tar pit. Why not simply retort when the issue is raised that abortion is settled law; the Supreme Court has ruled it to be legal, and rape has nothing to do with it. Opponents can still express their opposition, they can point out that in the age of sonograms anyone who denies that there is life in those pictures is being dishonest with himself, but those opponents must concede abortion on demand is available to all. Then they should say, “Let’s talk about what those of us who have survived pregnancies and those who are yet to be born need to do to get this country renewed, vibrant and productive.” Or perhaps just invoke a response to sticky wickets that all Democrats can understand, “Let’s move on.”
Anthony| 8.23.12 @ 11:45AM
Yes, Clinton and Obozo are the perfect bookends.
The sociopathic president who presided over the rapid decline of American values and morality, and the Muslim Marxist who intends on the final destruction of America.
America owes its fate to these two men. Thank you Democrats!!!
supremecourtlegislator| 8.23.12 @ 12:13PM
Very well done. And if Todd Akin had not stayed put and stood his ground, this issue with Bill Clinton--and it is a major issue with Hillary too--would not have been taken up.
Robert17| 8.23.12 @ 12:17PM
Akin will still win.
tinyurl.com/ToddF-Akin
George S| 8.23.12 @ 12:23PM
If a Democrat rapes a woman, the media has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
Oldefarte| 8.23.12 @ 12:56PM
I wish to thank all of the DA's here/elsewhere within the Republican/conservative movement for the following [and to remind you of Gump's famous words that STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES]:
' .....Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:18 .....Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has jumped to a 10-point lead over embattled challenger Rep. Todd Akin in a new poll by Rasmussen Reports and the seat has now moved to "Safe Democrat” in the pollster’s Senate Balance of Power rankings.
McCaskill, who until Akin’s remarks about abortion and rape had been considered one of the most endangered incumbents, now leads Akin 48 percent to 38 percent. She had trailed Akin in some polls by as much as 10 points before the gaffe.The abrupt reversal of fortune might mean an end to GOP hopes of taking control of the Senate.“Akin led McCaskill by three before winning the Republican primary,” ....'
Oldefarte| 8.23.12 @ 1:10PM
PS: The late Andy Griffith, in his initial professional career, recorded comedy records, one of which was titled WHAT IS WAS, WAS FOOTBALL [which described a country bumpkins first trip to a football game/stadium]. In same, he said that he had figured out that THE OBJECT OF THIS GAME WAS TO RUN FROM ONE END OF THIS COW PASTURE TO THE OTHER, WITHOUT EITHER GETTING KNOCKED DOWN, OR ''''''STEPPING IN SOMETHING''''''. Well you DA's have now truly stepped in something alright with your yelling/screaming about Akin's dumb comments regarding RAPE. Hope you now enjoy four more years of.......BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!!
Art| 8.23.12 @ 1:14PM
Superb article. Powerful stuff to enable Romney and Ryan to fight a small fire with massive fire.
Goldwater Girl| 8.23.12 @ 1:18PM
I would love to see the details of that poll. Let's not forget that McCaskill was in trouble in MO because of her vote for Obamacare. That albatross is still there, and those that would have voted for Akin prior to his comments, are not going to now vote for her. Obamacare is a much larger issue, than how one senator feels about rape/pregnancy/abortion. Let's remind our Show-Me state friends what the "legitimate" issues are for 2012.
Drunken Sailor| 8.23.12 @ 1:51PM
I would love to agree with you but the polls say otherwise. Akins stupid remarks only gave new energy and fuel to the Democrats rant of "War on women". If he had done this months ago, there may have been time for the flames to die down and re-gain lost ground. Not enough time now I am afraid. He is done and with him possible our chances of taking the Senate.
MK48| 8.23.12 @ 6:44PM
polls are over rated...........and just a little biased.
Drunken Sailor| 8.23.12 @ 8:17PM
Agreed but I live near the MO border. Close enough to get their radio stations. And her ads are all over this. She is actually running on "her opponent is too conservative" theme. Time will tell if it sticks. I would be happy to be proved wrong.
Nina in MA| 8.23.12 @ 1:19PM
I think we can all agree that Clinton is a sleaze bag! He embarrassed this country with his WH floozy and there are numerous allegations of his womanizing...okay so did JFK, Robert, etc...they were still held in high esteem. Seems the women they picked for targets were weak for the power these men held...however...does anyone know how hard it is to go to a trial for a rape? Some states, as in MA, you need physical proof of being forced, being coerced or threatened doesn't do it! You need black and blue marks, a gun or a knife held to your head. And to go after a political power house? Any women who did that would be shredded...I don't blame any woman for not coming forward to confront and accuse any man of power of rape. And when the women who do lie about it as in the college case, the MSM shreds the ones being lied about! And little Hillary, the wronged wife, stands by her man? Wonderful roll models. I always wondered what they told Chelsea as far as "I did not have (oral) sex with that women"!?
It disgusts me that the Clintons are still in our face after the way he acted in the oval office and Obama connecting himself with them, good...hopfeully it will backfire.
As for getting pregnant after being raped, if you reported it or went to the hospital, I thought you got the morning after pills? Maybe they should be doled out in college dorms right along with all the condoms and sex pamphlets!
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 6:04PM
C vernon crisler (i.e. pompous buffoon) doesn't agree, he blames the woman, then claims conservatives hate women. Nice gig, if you are a lib - I wouldn't take it. I amswer to a higher source.
Mars the Avenger| 8.23.12 @ 1:26PM
Problem is, no Republican will take the ammo offered. Democrats offer such a target rich environment, that it astounds this retired Devil Dog to no end.
L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!!! No prisoners, no mercy!
Who Knows?| 8.23.12 @ 1:26PM
Akingate could be the “gate” that swings the liberals out of power.
On the “Please don’t throw me in that briar patch” theory, maybe the inadvertent sentence by Akin was just what was needed to, in knee-jerk fashion, get the morons running the jackass party to emphasize “women’s rights”---to their fatal conceit demise. For Obama et al, it’s all about being a fast talking sleaze ball salesman, who every day uses their “open mic” power to try to distract voters.
“Buy THIS!”
Social issues, especially abortion---that’s it???
A starving person trumps a horny one!
America is “starving”, by and VERY large, and for BHO and bad company to offer “spread your legs” might be just the wrong thing for them to do.
People are HONGRY! Not interested in things sexual.
A chicken in every pot.
NOT a chick in every bed!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 8.23.12 @ 1:38PM
I believe it is noted above that Juannita Broaddrick should have reported the rape to the police. Accepting the timelines and scenario as accurate, as Clinton was the Attorney General (the head prosecutor in the state in most jurisdictions, though some also have county District Attorneys)), I imagine his office would play a significant role in determining which cases would be prosecuted.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.23.12 @ 6:32PM
I don't think it is the business of Juannita Broaddrick or anyone else to refuse to report a crime because the perpetrator is the Attn. General. Can you imagine if the Attn. General had been a Republican! She would have gone to the police that very night.
No, she didn't even try to pursue justice. Out of political expediency she decided to lie for Bill Clinton for years. It's because leftwing women are more interested in abortion rights than they are in defending their own honor.
As I said, she deserves nothing but our contempt.
CJW| 8.23.12 @ 7:16PM
Do you believe Juanita was raped by Bubba?
TinaB| 8.23.12 @ 9:47PM
Do you have a daughter, Sir? If you did, would you subject her to further abuse by the media and the Political Machine after being raped by the AG, the top lawman in the State? I wouldn't, and I do have a beautiful daughter.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.23.12 @ 11:20PM
How do you know she was raped TinaB? Just because she said so? If there was any evidence, it is long gone simply because she chose to lie for Bill Clinton for political reasons.
CJW| 8.23.12 @ 11:44PM
Do you believe she was raped by Bubba?
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 4:05PM
I hope the first dillweed liberal that asks about Akin gets fed a heapin' helpin of Clinton's rape stories, like how can you question us when the libs so clearly support rape? WHO has the war on women??? C'mon!
topcat52| 8.23.12 @ 6:05PM
The head of NARAL says: "women -- not politicians -- should be able to make personal, private health-care decisions". But I'll bet she loves Obamacare, where politicians, regulators and unelected IPAB members will make those personal, private health-care decisions for both women and men.
C'mon Man!| 8.23.12 @ 6:21PM
Don't think those Harvard educated women studies idiots quite get that yet. They will, like the starters of the French Revolution got it.
Dobbs| 8.23.12 @ 7:26PM
Excellent post, JL. I have long contended that Clinton skated for one reason: he supported abortion and therefore would not be questioned by Democrats ... on anything
Anyone But Obama| 8.23.12 @ 7:52PM
Yeah, how about bringing out the women that Bill Clinton has raped?
Sonderegger | 8.23.12 @ 11:05PM
President Obama, after a considerable absence, abruptly appeared in the White House pressroom the other day to address Congressman Todd Akin's wildly offensive comment about "legitimate rape." In the President's own words: "Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be http://hotsaleairmax.eklablog.com parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me."
ReaganConservative| 8.24.12 @ 1:12AM
Bill Clinton's his inner most enlightened perspective, insight, wisdom, and his above and beyond approach integrity on the issue of on rape and sexual assaults upon women, quote- "That depends on the meaning of the word "is" is.."
ReaganConservative| 8.24.12 @ 1:13AM
Bill Clinton's inner most enlightened perspective, insight, wisdom, and his above and beyond approach integrity on the issue of on rape and sexual assaults upon women, quote- "That depends on the meaning of the word "is" is.."
Bob S| 8.24.12 @ 1:17AM
Obama: "Rape is rape."
Clinton: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
Oldefarte| 8.24.12 @ 12:58PM
The possibly bees the ISISM:
http://youtu.be/8sAjIKTMICg
Bob S| 8.25.12 @ 2:19PM
This video can be considered not safe for work, but the ending is hilarious.
"You lost, it's your wife."
David| 8.24.12 @ 3:13PM
Akin is correct in that the stress of forcible rape makes if very difficult for a woman to get pregnant.
I have known a few women who tried and tried to conceive and they all said the first thing the doctor recommended is to not worry about it - to relax - to have a couple of drinks beforehand, etc. I don't think women who are forcibly raped are relaxed.
Akin should have simply said why are we always talking about rape and incest, which produce probably less than 1% of pregnancies.
MTB| 8.24.12 @ 4:41PM
"Obviously, rape is not rape for Obama if the man in question is -- Bill Clinton."
Or Roman Polansky
Mistral| 8.25.12 @ 12:16PM
He's obviously high up in the freemasons to be able to rape ad lib, perjure, intimidate, be accessory to murder and so on. Protected species status.