At first I was thinking, yeah, the guy should resign. But then I saw this article by Jack Cashill, and it made me wonder why Republicans always shoot their own side when Democrats act up, instead of going on the offensive. Perhaps there are some strategic reasons why Republicans might not want to attack Bill Clinton, who might be their secret weapon of Obama destruction in the 2012 presidential race, and he remains popular. However the left remains silent about real rape, real sexual abuse and a real misogynist war on women coming from its quarters but pounces on any Republican gaffe as if Akin was responsible for actual rape instead of failing to see that "rape is rape," Whoopie Goldberg notwithstanding. As Sherman Frederick writes:
But before we leave this Republican's step into the Twilight Zone of American politics, let's re-visit a similar comment from a Democrat.
Commenting on the movie-director Roman Polanski, "The View" commentator Whoopi Goldberg defended Polanski's rape of a minor.
She said: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and when they let him out he was like 'You know what this guy's going to give me a hundred years in jail I'm not staying, so that's why he left.'"
Whoopi also said, "Would I want my 14-year-old daughter having sex? Not necessarily."
Not necessarily? What kind of mom answer "not necessarily" to that question?
Here's Cashill:
As far as I know, Bill Clinton, unlike U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin, has never misspoken on the subject of rape. In fact, he is somewhat of an authority on the subject.
Clinton knows just what a woman who has been raped should do. As he told Juanita Broaddrick in that Little Rock hotel room some years back, “You better get some ice on that.”
Broaddrick was not alone in being sexually abused by Clinton. Indeed, in the Ken Starr investigation, Broaddrick emerged as “Jane Doe No. 5.”
Broaddrick was likely not unique in being raped by Clinton either. In his book, “Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story,” Michael Isikoff relates how Clinton, then Arkansas governor, had sex with former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen.
“It was rough sex,” Isikoff writes, “Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen later told friends. But it was consensual.”
Isikoff missed the lip-biting connection. He also failed to acknowledge that at least one of Gracen’s friends, Judy Stokes, had told the Paula Jones legal team that the sex was not consensual at all.
Arrrrgggghhh! Republicans, take your cue from from the Obama eats dog meme that finally pushed back against the weeks of Democrat attacks on Romney's carrying the family dog in a crate atop their car.
Stop the friendly fire. Stop letting stuff like this be the agenda for news cycle upon news cycle. It's deeper than the economy, stupid! It's character, stupid. Without virtue and character the economy and government are sunk.
Sadly, it may be too late to walk this one back but if Akin remains the candidate then Republicans should ensure he wins anyway, despite being tone deaf to those undecided voters everyone is tiptoeing around to attract.
UPDATE: and while we're at it, how about instead of going on the defensive when a pro-life position that respects the humanity the unborn child from conception is attacked when rape and incest are used as the weapons, how about pointing out President Obama's abortion extremism. He not only supports partial birth abortion, he voted to allow the infanticide of infants born alive as the result of a botched abortion. How's them apples? Talk about extreme.
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