# Senate nominee from Missouri Todd Akin is a feeble-minded moron. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993 "2012-08-19T19:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/1 "2012-08-19T19:50:29Z")
Here is my clinical evidence. [http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php](http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php) > [@](#): > > Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy. > > “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/2 "2012-08-19T19:56:09Z")
1980 called, it wants its congressmen back. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/3 "2012-08-19T19:58:53Z")
Shockingly, another Republican has a non-existant knowledge base about women’s reproductive systems. If only people would learn to stop electing them. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/4 "2012-08-19T20:12:47Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > 1980 called, it wants its congressmen back. More like 1880. In 1980 people would have considered this guy a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/5 "2012-08-19T20:14:41Z")
Be interesting to see if Akin will be the Sharron Angle of 2012. On the one hand, McCaskill’s poll numbers have been grim for months. On the other hand, having Akin spend the next few days trying to explain what “legitimate rape” is might be enough to at least upgrade McCaskill from “doomed” to “mostly doomed”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/6 "2012-08-19T20:19:26Z")
A stupid myth! Everybody knows a woman can’t get pregnant unless she has an orgasm. That’s why we men scrupulously avoid such an unfortunate, ah, outcome. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/7 "2012-08-19T20:39:29Z")
Someone should ask him why he considers any rape to be “legitimate”. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/8 "2012-08-19T21:10:41Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Someone should ask him why he considers any rape to be “legitimate”. Well, you know, the ones that aren’t legitimate (ie: actual) rape are the ones where the woman was asking for it by having her ankle showing. In the ankle showing cases, she clearly wanted it so it isn’t rape. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/9 "2012-08-19T21:36:48Z")
I suspect Akin will spend the rest of the current news-cycle being legitimately raped. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/10 "2012-08-19T21:52:43Z")
Pics. Want pics. Don’t want to see them myself, just have somebody depraved but trustworthy to look and say “Yeppers, that’s that Akin guy getting royally rogered!”. That will do nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/11 "2012-08-19T23:44:50Z")
What the hell does he think a legitimate rape is? One where contracts are signed and notarized? Since the idiotic comments that came Palin, O’Donnell, Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrich, countless others and this Akin guy, how can they all be this dumb? I think it’s more of a cry for help. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/12 "2012-08-19T23:52:21Z")
It used to be that when I saw a thread title like this I immediately discarded it as the newest “I don’t like Republicans so I’ll hammer on them whether they deserve it or not” thread. Now I see it and wonder what stupid thing they said this time. Have I changed, or have they? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/13 "2012-08-19T23:54:16Z")
He stepped on his dick real good this time. Check out _Talking Points Memo_, they are keeping an update on the backlash. [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/) Conventional wisdom at last check: he is _sooo_ boned. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/14 "2012-08-19T23:55:19Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > It used to be that when I saw a thread title like this I immediately discarded it as the newest “I don’t like Republicans so I’ll hammer on them whether they deserve it or not” thread. Now I see it and wonder what stupid thing they said this time. > > Have I changed, or have they? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/15 "2012-08-20T00:02:59Z")
In his apology from the article from the OP, he said his statement " does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped." Thousands? All this money and nobody fact checks his apology? The US in 2010 had 84,767 rapes. That’s just in one country. These are only the rapes that are _reported._ ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/16 "2012-08-20T00:04:56Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > It used to be that when I saw a thread title like this I immediately discarded it as the newest “I don’t like Republicans so I’ll hammer on them whether they deserve it or not” thread. Now I see it and wonder what stupid thing they said this time. > > Have I changed, or have they? The Republicans have been going downhill since about 1978, with a pronounced acceleration when Newt became prominent. Now they are just circling the drain. Nixon and Ford respected expertise. Once you start embracing crankery -which is what supply side economics was- it becomes increasingly difficult to curb the nut jars. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/17 "2012-08-20T00:17:08Z")
Nothing much to add except how breath-taking this piece of idiocy is. The anti-intellectual party is reaping what it hath sown… ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/18 "2012-08-20T00:18:43Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > It used to be that when I saw a thread title like this I immediately discarded it as the newest “I don’t like Republicans so I’ll hammer on them whether they deserve it or not” thread. Now I see it and wonder what stupid thing they said this time. > > Have I changed, or have they? I really think the current state of the GOP is to blame. If you look back at Republicans like Regan you see a man that not everyone agreed with but who clearly had the best interest of his country in mind, not part of his country, not the rich or the powerful, but the entire country. This was a president who believed in the American dream and that it belonged to all of us. I voted Republican as much as Democrat in those days. I hope to be able to say that again in the future. OK - sorry - rant over. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/19 "2012-08-20T00:25:11Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > In his apology from the article from the OP, he said his statement " does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped." Thousands? All this money and nobody fact checks his apology? > > The US in 2010 had 84,767 rapes. That’s just in one country. These are only the rapes that are _reported._ Hey, now - 84 thousand is “thousands”. Sure, most people would say “tens of thousands”, but that makes it sound like there is a lot of it going around. And, much as he is a knuckle-dragger, worrying about only US citizens is probably not a pittable offense. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993/20 "2012-08-20T00:26:20Z")
To be fair, many conservative Republicans have no interest in the female reproductive parts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-nominee-from-missouri-todd-akin-is-a-feeble-minded-moron/631993.md?page=2)