{"id":13973,"date":"2012-08-19T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=344"},"modified":"2012-08-19T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T22:25:43","slug":"dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-steelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-steelman\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Blame Me; I Voted For Steelman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCaskill got the opponent she wanted, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/political-fix\/akin-says-legitimate-rape-won-t-cause-pregnancy\/article_48d20ca8-ea35-11e1-b167-0019bb30f31a.html#.UDFRVBbCnyo.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Akin is showing why she wanted him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yKa5CY-KOHc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a political blunder of the highest order.  Regardless of how he prefaces it that it&#8217;s based on his knowledge (not revealed truth or expertise), regardless of whether his main point that abortion punishes the fetus for the crimes of a father, look at how bad it sounds on its face <em>and then imagine how bad it will sound in McCaskill&#8217;s ads<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Akin has been in Washington a long time, and it shows.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people have jumped on the terms &#8220;legitimate rape,&#8221; as though this is the most stupid or the most evil concept ever; however, it is not.  Some claims of rape are not legitimate, such as the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_lacrosse_case\" target=\"_blank\">Duke La Crosse<\/a> case.  I&#8217;m no expert on these things, but I can imagine circumstances and have read claims of instances where a drunken hook-up or some other factor makes a woman reconsider a tryst and later claim it was rape.  If that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s an actual rape.  Ergo, there is legitimate rape, and there are illegitimate claims of rape.  I can see what Akin <em>might<\/em> have been meaning to differentiate amid his scientific ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>The condemnation is flowing from the social media (see the vigorous venom and condemnation for this blunder on <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2012\/08\/19\/gop-senate-candidate-in-missouri-legitimate-rape-rarely-causes-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\">PJMedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/headlines\/archives\/2012\/08\/19\/if-its-a-legitimate-rape-the-female-body-has-ways-to-try-to-shut-that-whole-thing-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air Headlines<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/gop-senate-nominee-victims-of-legitimate-rape-do-not-get-pregnant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mediaite<\/a>).  Soon, the nationwide money will flow copiously into McCaskill&#8217;s coffers, and some Republicans&#8211;me included&#8211;will wonder whether it&#8217;s better to write in Sarah Steelman than to vote for a man who&#8217;s already been in Washington long enough that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/article_2284f88d-a169-53c6-8228-de3fb2e37068.html\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes forgets where he &#8220;lives&#8221; in Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCaskill got the opponent she wanted, and Todd Akin is showing why she wanted him. This is a political blunder of the highest order. Regardless of how he prefaces it that it&#8217;s based on his knowledge (not revealed truth or expertise), regardless of whether his main point that abortion punishes the fetus for the crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}