That haze on the horizon is the career of Missouri Republican Representative Akin, as it goes up in smoke.
To review: Missouri voters elected Representative Akin, Missouri Republican, as this year’s candidate for Senator hoping to unseat a vulnerable Democrat senator named Claire Conner McCaskill. He made the mistake of saying in public that victims of "legitimate rape" cannot biologically become pregnant and thus do not need access to legal abortions.
This raised a question in the minds of many Missouri voters: should we require a senator candidate to know human biology?
Fire and brimstone fell over Akin’s head. Republican candidates, leaders, and financiers back-peddled to distance themselves from him. They urged [ if not ordered ] him to withdraw. Never mind the fact that he was (yesterday) the darling star of the Missouri Republicans, their Great White Hope. Missouri Republicans have few darling stars available at any given time to take up The Crusade. He is the same person they elected a few weeks ago. What really changed about him exactly? The change came in voters’ perceptions; that is all.
Let this stand as a lesson to us all.
Say something really dumb or really politically incorrect; it corrupts or invalidates your whole person. The assumption, however, is silly. Just because someone says something dumb in one area does not mean that someone is dumb on all subjects and in all respects in all areas.
The Akin Crash does illustrate to what extent some voters obsess over political issues sexual and the extent to which some of them will punish the baby in case of rape. If people want to execute someone as punishment for these acts of violence, it should be the rapist.
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