Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill appeared Tuesday night on The Last Word for an exclusive interview regarding her race against Republican candidate Todd Akin. Asked by host Lawrence O'Donnell about Akin's infamous remark that most women cannot get pregnant from what he called "legitimate rape," McCaskill said this: "I don't think the problem is what Todd said; the problem is what Todd believes."
Akin's comments, McCaskill suggested, were only one manifestation of his hard-right ideology.
McCaskill pointed to a number of extremist comments Akin has made, including his claim that Medicare is unconstitutional, his assertion that the minimum wage should be abolished, his admission that "didn't like" social security, and his stated desire to eliminate federal funding for student loans.
The senator has just released a new ad hitting Akin on these positions, including the "legitimate rape" comment. "What will he say next?" the ad asks.
"It's not that Todd and I are that far apart, on opposite ends," McCaskill said. "I'm in the middle, and he is on the very edge."
Akin was also among a handful of Members of Congress who voted against a sex offender registry, against a child nutrition program, and against the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, she said.
McCaskill charged that Akin has never possessed good relations with other Republicans. "This is someone who has always operated on the fringe of his party," she said. To drive that point home, her campaign will be unveiling "Republicans for Claire," a group which includes prominent conservatives, such as former Republican Senator Kit Bond's former chief of staff.
"We're going to have a lot of Republicans helping us in this race," McCaskill said.
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is it me or is every single person standing behind him post menopausal and don't realize he will actively work to take away their medicare (Gov. run healthcare) and work to kill Social Security Benefits.
Problems with the uterus led to the ancient term hysteria...I suggest you change your panties and get down to the local gynecologist and check into your case, Joshua. Oh, wait...that's a mans name, isn't it? Well, sure does look like a full blown case of hysteria to me judging from your above comment!
Hint...all those promises Obama made in the campaigns of 2008 that he had no intention of following through on were directed at obatining support from his base. Did you ever stop to think that Akins might be doing some of that too?
Grandpa, that's a pretty achin' Akin impersonation, and just about as ignorant. Are you sure you don't want to sue that university you claim to have attended for malpractice? For a reasonable fee, I'd serve as a witness.
Hysteria does mean "wandering womb," but there's no physiological or psychological evidence that female reproductive organs are involved. Felted again...
And today, modern psychologists separate hysterics into borderlines, histrionics, and narcissists, and there's a great deal of overlap. Your narcissism and attendant egocentric world view have been repeatedly put on display here, and the only one who's impressed is you.
has any reputable physician, biologist, or scientist ever identified the magical secretion that women have that kills rapist's sperm? or is the far right wing even more ignorant and stupid than ever contemplated?
akin sadly is not the only ignorant, stupid, or completely insane right winger who believes this myth.
Exactly!
Hope she does a better job if she wins. She was a weak Democrat but with a stronger margin of voter strength in winning the seat again, then the party may have a more reliable ally in the Senate.
The Comunist Govt of China controls the reproductive rights of its people. How do Romney and the Republican Party justify govt. strippimg individual citizens rights of choice in our DEMOCRACY !!!