"He must say he misspoke because the legitimate female voter has ways to try to shut this whole campaign down."

and I have Repub friends on FB stating they will vote against him come November after today's comments.

this isn't going away by November.

the Repub party will lose and lose big in Missouri in November.

I just read that Congressman Akin serves on the House committee on Science, Space and Technology.

This is a man who doesn't understand the first thing about a woman's body, and he wants to make legislation that will control a woman's body. This is a man who believes that there is some special mechanism that kicks in, causing her body to prevent pregnancies during rape--and he has a seat in the US House Science Committee???

Michele Bachmann is on the House Intelligence Committee.

I think all of this is too big for alcohol.

I may have to start sniffing drain cleaner.

anyone know which committees louie gohmert is on ?

God, or whomever, help us.

maybe it will wake some dumbasses up.

the appropriate word.

one would hope that it will damage him as much there as it is nationally.

I've posted two things about it so far including a screen shot of the front page of the Huffington Post. I have mostly lefty friends, but a few that grumble when I post stuff. It will be interesting to see if one of the non-lefty friends will say anything.

of them are Repigs. They have become deathly silent over the past 24 hours. An eerie quiet has descended upon the Eastern Front (I'm in California now

immediately demanding that he resign and allow Steelman to run in his place.

I still live in Missouri. Even the conservatives are disgusted by this. It's all over the local and state news and it's not good at all.

of comment that could consign them to the same fate as their 19th-Century forbears, the Know-Nothings.

By the time this is over, the Dems might be the only current major party still standing. And then, I predict, Dems would break into factions: progressives vs. Blue Dogs, Socialists vs. Keynesians, etc.

or not, they're just your friends after all, not mine or anybody else.

I have who post political anti-Obama stuff. I have noticed a stunning silence recently. Perhaps they are not too happy with Mitt over choosing Ryan.

Not one word has been said in the past 24 hours. Nothing.