Todd Akin's Wife Compares GOP's Treatment of Her Husband to Rape

[TroyD]

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin’s wife, Lulli Akin, says the Republican Party’s attempts to push her husband out of the Missouri Senate race — over his false assertion that women who are raped rarely get pregnant — are like rape itself.

She also believes the GOP’s abandonment is on par with the tyranny that launched the American Revolution.

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Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections “by the people and for the people” with “tyranny, a top-down approach.” She added, “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way.”

She cited colonists who “rose up and said, ‘Not in my home, you don’t come and rape my daughters and my … wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?”

Todd Akin said his wife’s comparisons to 1776 were “a little more grandiose than the way I would say it” — but he did say that there is a “this tremendous sense of uprising I feel among the people I talk to.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/todd-akins-wife-compares-gop-against-him-to-1776-tyranny-and-rape.php

[tk2kewl]

1. the have all gone completely bonkers

[Sherman A1]

2. Interesting logic

really strange, but intersting

[TwilightGardener]

3. They're really into rape.

[zbdent]

4. If I were to act like a Republican ... I'd say something like ...

how she needed a point of reference for comparison ...

[MichiganVote]

5. Needs the looney bin just like her whackjob spouse

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. I admire any woman who is loyal to her husband - but what she's saying is nuts

By the way...

efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections “by the people and for the people” with “tyranny, a top-down approach.” She added, “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way.”

that quote dovetails pretty much exactly with what Jesse Ventura said today on "The View." he's endorsed Gary Johnson. Perhaps Akin should do the same.