ABORTING AKIN

Robert Roy MacGregor (1671-1734) became a Scottish folk hero by fighting English perfidy.  In 1817, Sir Walter Scott wrote a historical novel about his life, entitled with the name he is known to history:  Rob Roy.  In 1995, Liam Neeson played the hero in a movie based on Scott’s book, Rob Roy.

It’s a terrific action flick, with the climactic duel between Rob Roy and the villain Cunningham (Tim Roth) one of filmdom’s greatest sword fights.  But that’s not why I remember it.  The scene that has always stayed with me is when Rob Roy’s wife Mary (Jessica Lange) tells him that she is pregnant as a result of her being raped by Cunningham, and asks him apprehensively what to do.  In tears, she admits, "I could not kill it, husband."

His response:  "It is not the child who needs killing." 

He steps outside the dark cottage into the daylight.  Mary knows he is off to challenge Cunningham to the death, who is a far better swordsman than he.  "What if you do not return to us?" she asks with fear in her eyes.

With a tender smile, he answers, "If it’s a boy, call him Robert.  If a lass, name her for my love – Mary MacGregor."

This is possibly the most touchingly pro-life scene in motion picture history.  If Todd Akin had recalled it to explain his pro-life position, rather than his goofball "legitimate rape" irrelevancy, he’d still be an unknown politician beyond the borders of Missouri.

It is clear that Akin’s view is exactly the same as Liam Neeson’s Rob Roy: "the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child."  That was his answer when asked, in his now infamous interview last Sunday (8/19), his position on abortion in case of rape.

Unfortunately, he prefaced this answer with a moronic claim about "the female body" preventing pregnancy if the rape is "legitimate."  This contained two unforced errors equivalent to not just shooting himself in the foot but blowing his brains out.

First, he should have used the normally accepted term "forcible rape."  But no, he said "legitimate" instead, outraging people who thought he meant there was a kind of rape that’s okay or legitimate.  Obviously, he was referring to real rape as opposed to a woman having consensual sex then claiming later she was raped in order to justify an abortion.

The fatal error, however, lies in his embracing the crackpot "spastic tubes" theory of Dr. John Willkie, MD, a past president of the National Right to Life Committee.  Willkie is a medical kook.  Akin is an idiot for believing him.

Akin’s senatorial candidacy needs to be aborted – not because he is wrong about the immorality of abortion, but because he is a stupid jerk.

He has as much chance now to defeat the weakest Dem senator in the country as Bozo the Clown – which is why Claire McKaskill wants him to stay in the race when everyone from Mitt Romney to Sarah Palin is telling him to get out Dodge.  Yet he only says he "misspoke," won’t disavow his moron biology, and insists on ruining the GOP’s chances to retake the Senate for the sake of his ego.

Mama Grizzly has identified the solution:  run a write-in/independent candidate against both Akin and McKaskill.  Little wonder that she suggested Sarah Steelman whom she endorsed in the primary and Akin defeated (thanks to Dems voting in an open primary).  But that won’t work, as Missouri has a "Sore Loser" law preventing losing primary candidates running in any way in the general.

Thus focus is now on former Missouri senator Jim Talent and a remarkable lady named Ann Wagner.  She’s the GOP candidate for the Congressional seat Akin is vacating, which she’ll win easily.  So she won’t abandon her race to run as a senate write-in.  Missouri law gives Akin until September 25 to request his name be stricken from the ballot and the GOP to nominate a substitute.

Once Akin sees his fundraising run dry as dust and quits, watch for Wagner to step in.  If he won’t quit, then watch for Talent to run as an indie backed by tons of RNC money.  One way or t’other, Akin’s senate hopes will be aborted.

So it is with a sense of unabashed wonderment, of perverse admiration, that we are witness to the Dems turning the Akin Rape/Abortion scandal into a blessing – for Republicans and the pro-life movement.

Actually there are two blessings.  The first is that the doors are now open to dispute the weasel cop-out of arguing against abortion "except in cases of rape and incest."  How can any pro-lifer justify this exception?  Judge Anthony Napolitano nails it when he says:

"Rape is among the more horrific violations of human dignity imaginable. It is a crime committed by the male, not the female – and certainly not by the child it might produce. When rape results in pregnancy, the baby has the same right to life as any child born by mutually loving parents. Only the Nazis would execute a child for the crimes of his or her father."

The pro-life movement has a golden opportunity to proudly and loudly stand against the "rape and incest" cop-out.   

There’s no such cop-out in the 2012 GOP Party Platform.  This drives pro-abortionist moonbats into a tizzy.  The Moonbat-in-Chief has taken to Tweeting, "Paul Ryan Supports Banning All Abortions Even in Cases of Rape or Incest."  Politifact rates this as "Half-True," for while Ryan is against the rape/incest exception, he makes a clear exception to save the mother’s life.

So the GOP can have a Baby Lovers Convention in Tampa – while the Dems have a Baby Killers Convention in Charlotte.  In their frenzied desperation to distract voters away from Zero’s destruction of their economic future, the Dems are going to hold a Pro-Abortion Convention.

The Dems’ main theme will be the evil Pubs are waging a War on Women because being anti-abortion is ipso facto anti-women.  Not wanting women to murder their own babies is taking women "back to the Dark Ages," you see.  Speech after convention speech will be devoted to this ludicrous logic by such abortion champions as Sandra "the Slut" Fluke and a full gaggle of coyote ugly Feminazis.

While the Dems are celebrating abortion on national television, let’s hope the airwaves are flooded with Pub Super-PAC vignettes portraying what a fanatical pro-abortion extremist Zero is, including the video of him advocating third trimester abortions, and documenting his advocacy of straight-out infanticide.

With their Akin Feeding Frenzy, the Dems and the BM are handing the Pubs the perfect opportunity to go on the offensive and attack, attack Zero for advocating infanticide, partial-birth abortion, and third trimester abortion.  All three are morally disgusting and contemptible to the great majority of American men and women (three-to-one in the latest poll). 

Just like Romney and Ryan turned the table on the Dems regarding Medicare, they can do the same regarding abortion.  When hounded by the lib press on abortion and rape, the only reply necessary is:

"Rape is evil.  A child resulting from it is not.  Republicans believe murdering an innocent child is immoral.  Democrats believe murdering an innocent child for a crime of its father is moral.  And by the way, what was Mr. Obama’s answer when you asked him about his advocacy of abortion for any reason whatever up to and including the birth of the child?"

That’s the way to really abort Akin.