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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 02:01 PM Jul 2014

Huckabee blames GOP for allowing Akin’s ‘legitimate rape’ comment to sink campaign

By Scott Kaufman
Monday, July 7, 2014 11:37 EDT

In the forward to former Senate candidate Todd Akin’s new book, former Arkansas governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defends Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment.

“I expected Democrats to pounce on Todd,” Huckabee wrote, for a comment that women don’t become pregnant in cases of “legitimate rape.”

“But I was disheartened and outraged when Republicans circled the wagons,” he continued, “not to support Todd and help him overcome an obstacle but instead as a firing squad pointed at the congressman.”

Huckabee further claimed that the author of Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom is just one of many “social conservatives” who have been attacked by “party bosses, partisan power brokers and the entrenched GOP establishment.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/07/huckabee-blames-gop-for-allowing-akins-legitimate-rape-comment-to-sink-campaign/

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Huckabee blames GOP for allowing Akin’s ‘legitimate rape’ comment to sink campaign (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2014 OP
OMFG. catbyte Jul 2014 #1
I hope they listen to him n2doc Jul 2014 #2
Mike "Legit rape" Huckabee? Works for me. blkmusclmachine Jul 2014 #3
It's not too late guys. Rally around Akin, it's the proper Republican thing to do! herding cats Jul 2014 #4

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
2. I hope they listen to him
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 02:11 PM
Jul 2014

I really do. Makes it much more likely that they will continue to shoot their mouths off and lose elections. Double down, boys....

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
3. Mike "Legit rape" Huckabee? Works for me.
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 02:35 PM
Jul 2014

Doesn't surprise me for one second. Arkansas is, after all, the State that tried to initiate a State Death Penalty for minor, wayward children a couple years back, probably when Huckabee was Governor.

herding cats

(19,549 posts)
4. It's not too late guys. Rally around Akin, it's the proper Republican thing to do!
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 02:41 PM
Jul 2014

We need to energize our voters and get them to the polls.

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