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@JanCBS: Sr GOP source on the full-court press to get Akin to step aside tells me: "It's hard to reason with an idiot." -- nm

Posted by Ender (aka Ender) Aug 21 '12, 06:24

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I don't think he's an idiot, I just think he's a true believer and getting him to step aside is going to take extortion. - spamlet Aug 21, 06:53 1
- so, you're saying he's even less amenable to reason than an idiot? :) -- nm - znufrii Aug 21, 06:55
and yet his views seem to be fully within the mainstream of the current GOP. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 21, 06:25 17
- FYI the draft language for the Republican Party platform is out today, it is insane as expected. - MDH Aug 21, 06:33
- ascendent, yes. but mainstream? no. - znufrii Aug 21, 06:33 4
  - this. I know many GOPers but most do not agree with him. -- nm - loosilu Aug 21, 07:34
  - I agree with this. - Kim Pine Aug 21, 06:38
  - specifically I was referring to the politicians in Congress, but the party at large has also veered right over the years as well. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 21, 06:34 1
    - there is certainly a shift to the right in the mainstream as well, no doubt about it. - znufrii Aug 21, 06:40
- I really don't think so -- nm - Epiphany Aug 21, 06:28 8
  - the majority of current GOP house members share his position on abortion, and his boy Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill to narrow the definition of "rape" - Don Homer Aug 21, 06:32 7
    - I can't even imagine why we need to define rape or even narrow the definition. People have lost their damn minds -- nm - Epiphany Aug 21, 06:40 6
      - Because the fewer rapes that are legit rapes, the fewer potential rape-exception abortions. - the wrong element, bad guy Aug 21, 06:45 5
        
        No. That's not even an option. You're thinking from a pro-choice mindset. Any abortion is the killing of human life. - spamlet Aug 21, 06:54 3
        
        be that as it may, that's not the argument that's being made here. -- nm - znufrii Aug 21, 07:00 2
        
        I was responding to wrong element's assertion, with which you agreed. - spamlet Aug 21, 07:02 1
        
        it was an accurate observation, fwiw, but doesn't speak to my issues with the specific policy being discussed. - znufrii Aug 21, 07:17
        
        oh, sure. - znufrii Aug 21, 06:52
- Bullshit. -- nm - Ender Aug 21, 06:26 1
  - His rapes comments, no, but his hardline anti-abortion views - amoxy Aug 21, 06:32

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