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By Scott Kaufman
Monday, July 7, 2014 11:37 EDT
In the forward to former Senate candidate Todd Akins new book, former Arkansas governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defends Akins legitimate rape comment.
I expected Democrats to pounce on Todd, Huckabee wrote, for a comment that women dont 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/
catbyte
(34,174 posts)In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."
n2doc
(47,953 posts)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)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)We need to energize our voters and get them to the polls.