Romney says Dems using Akin flap to discredit GOP

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney says it is sad that President Barack Obama's campaign is stooping to the low level of trying to link Rep. Todd Akin's statements about abortion to the entire GOP.

Akin is the Missouri Senate candidate who said women's bodies have ways of avoiding pregnancy after a "legitimate" rape. Romney and other GOP leaders have criticized those statements and urged Akin to drop out of the Senate race.

In an interview broadcast Sunday on "Fox News Sunday," Romney called Akin's statements outrageous and offensive.




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Dems don't have to do a thing but read the GOP platform. Guess he hasn't read it yet.

[onehandle]

1. Onehandle says Akin embodies GOP. nt

[avebury]

2. But Akin and Ryan are tied to the hip with

the bill they co-sponsored and the Republican platform puts the party in bed with Akin. The Republicans can't stand it that the Democrats are pointing out the truth.

[liberal N proud]

3. Akin is doing just fine on his own!

[drm604]

4. Of course we are.

One of your guys handed us a gift. As long as we keep receiving these gifts, we'll keep using them.

And it isn't like we're misrepresenting Akin's attitudes. What he said should be criticized. We're not going to refrain from doing because it might discredit the GOP!

[Enrique]

5. did the interviewer point out the platform, and also Paul Ryan abortion views?

if the interviewer was Chris Wallace, possibly yes, otherwise almost certainly no. Even on non-Fox networks they might just sit there and let Mitt say this without saying anything.

[brewens]

6. Ya think? WTF did they expect? It's been abortion, abortion, abortion for almost four

years. Bill after bill in the house. Wacko personhood and now this Akin/Ryan link. They wanted to harp on abortion, now we need to jam it down their throats! Every moderate to liberal journalist should try and shift every interview or debate to abortion. Don't let them talk about anything else.

[oldsarge54]

36. Try again

Not four years, four decades.

[Sivafae]

42. Or as Maddow puts it, "Jobs, Jobs, "Jabortion."

[Scuba]

7. Well, duh.

[BadgerKid]

8. The GOP knows all about abortion -- jobs. n/t

[DFW]

9. Does Romney's right eye discredit his left eye?

Akin is Ryan, and Romney, no matter what the reason, chose Ryan.

Akin's statements are linked to the GOP because Akin IS the GOP. They can discredit him all the want, but he still has plenty of financing for his Senate run, and that means the GOP is still behind him. Maybe Akin won't speak in Tampa, but Huckabee will, and Huckabee is 100% behind Akin, and the GOP is proudly inviting Huckabee to speak at their podium.*

If Romney thinks that is ugly, well, he's spot on. It IS ugly. His party is ugly. His running mate is ugly. His party's platform is ugly, and this country will be one ugly place if he gets into the Oval Office, because Ryan, and therefore the Kochs would be whispering in his ear, telling him what to do for four long, dark bleak years.

*Interesting on its own: The Republican convention has Fox commentators speaking at their party podium. How many MSNBC commentators are speaking at the DNC? Is this the final cessation of the pretense that Fox is not the media propaganda arm of the Republican Party?

[Coyotl]

10. Akin is the one discrediting the GOP, all because he thinks like Ryan, Romney, and all the other Rs

who sponsored bill after bill, etc. ... the litany goes on and on, ...

So own it or refute it but quit whining

[Surya Gayatri]

11. But, but, Rinse Penis said "it's the Republican

platform, not the Mitt Romney platform!"

[lunatica]

12. Oops! Guess he hasn't read the newly voted in Republican platform

Well, he probably has, but he doesn't think we have so his kneejerk lies come out.

[justabob]

13. the denial and projection is breathtaking

Every single day Romney, his minions, party leaders and members say things that are so outrageous that is like being hit in the head with a frying pan. It just stops you in your tracks. I keep saying I have seen it all, that nothing surprises me anymore. Then the sun comes up and it happens AGAIN.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Mitt, that's the nicest thing you've ever said about us.

I certainly hope we are.

[flamingdem]

15. Todd Akin is da bomb

that we've been wanting to toss at the repukes!

He is the raw GOP, mask off.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. How DARE they use our NATIONAL PLATFORM against us??!!!??111

fuckin whiners

[coalition_unwilling]

17. Fancy Penis (RNC Chair) said that Romney isn't bound by the Repig

platform.

[Lil Missy]

18. Why yes, yes we are. What's your point?

Is this just a nanny nanny boo boo moment?

[Third Doctor]

19. The GOP

discredited themselves when all they did in the last few years is play politics in the face of a huge economic crisis they helpled cause.

[Arugula Latte]

20. They're big meany heads!

[thelordofhell]

21. This is a historic occasion

For the 1st time.......Romney is telling the truth!!

[maddezmom]

24. LOL

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. well...seems appropriate. Akin's views represent those of Paul Ryan and many in GOP

[truthisfreedom]

23. Gotta love his hubris.

What's he gonna do next? Claim Akin is a Democrat?

[andym]

25. And rightly so. nt.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Romney's right. It's unfair to use Republican negatives against them.

How can they possibly win if the Democrats keep underhandedly telling the truth about them?

[Politicalboi]

27. But Rmoney, isn't conception , conception?

At least that's what Paul Ryan says. It doesn't matter how you got pregnant, Just have the baby and shut up already. That IS the GOP message.

[MichaelSoE]

28. AAWW, TOO BAD! They can all go deficate in their chapeaus.

[Kalidurga]

29. So Romney doesn't think we are using what Akin said legitimately?

Well, I disagree Akin looked like he was enjoying himself fine in that interview. Akin pledges to carry his candidacy to term. The GOP didn't at any point try to fight Akin off, in fact many were in bed with Akin when he was writing bills to attempt to make abortions difficult to get. I think the GOP should just lay down and enjoy what is happening, since the outcome seems to be inevitable. I think if the GOP wants to abort Akin they need to prove that his membership to the party was forcible.

[Politicalboi]

32. Yes it's just like weather

Nothing you can do about it, so just sit back and enjoy.

[ancianita]

34. Best, funniest post I've read all day!

[daligirl519]

30. Well, well. . .

Captain Obvious strikes again!

[demo dutch]

31. Now that's funny! LOL

[Progressive dog]

33. Mitt is the leader of the rethugs

Akin just made plain where the rethugs stand on abortion. They've discredited themselves, Democrats are just pointing it out.

[avebury]

35. The GOP are doing a great job

of discrediting themselves all by themselves.

[tanyev]

37. Yes. And the problem with that is.....?

[wordpix]

38. and Rmoney is using Akin flap to deflect from his tax avoidance illegal schemes

[William Seger]

39. Romney/Ryan position is WORSE than Akin's!

In his ignorance, Akin thinks rape victims don't get pregnant, but Romney and Ryan know they do; they just don't give a shit.

[Blue Idaho]

40. "I never did give them hell."

"I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."

Harry Truman.

[KamaAina]

41. Also, Dems using air to breathe.

[bamacrat]

43. Their point...?