While Mr. Todd Akin’s remark may not have been the best-phrased, his sentiment is entirely correct! It’s time that principles start reasserting themselves: I personally have had more than enough of ANY AND ALL “pragmatism”, “temporising”, &c. Those are the things that KILL moral purpose!!!

I so hope that Mr. Akin WINS and keeps standing up for the pro-life stance!!! We need principled people, NOT “cool heads”!! Sorry if I’m in disagreement with you, Mr. Christopher Johnson; however, I think that excessive compromising has brought ALL of North America, even all of Western civilisation to this pass where the Moslems and Commies are threatening to take us over, burying us just as Ñikíta Sjergjéjevich Khrushchjóv PROMISED over 50 years ago!!!!

Contraception and abortion: the sine qua non non of women’s liberation: i.e. the quickest way they can become like men: not able to have children by suppressing what Nature itself endowed them with. Where is the women’s pride in being female! Or is being female a curse! AS to the issue of rape and abortion. I wonder how many of these people when they get criminally assaulted leaving life long trauma go home and kill their dog? Remember that even in the case of a pregnancy resulting from rape ( an infinitisimal proportion of the total abotion numbers) the ensuing innocent child has exactly the same mount of genetic contribution from the woman as a conception in other circumstances. He/she is no less the mothers child! Surely if a “way out” is sought, adoption after delivery is just so much a better result for one’s own progeny than infanticide.

But of course to-day it is what you FEEL that matters not what you “think”.

The question is whether one remark which reveals an unscientific view (rape can and does cause pregnancy at about the same rate as single voluntary sex encounters without contraception) should cause Missouri to re-elect a Senator whose vote has enabled HHS to force Christians to pay for abortions. Any religious believer in Missouri should realize that his own beliefs may be on the chopping block next — and secularists are also not immune to government coercion.

If it is that close after all the “War on Women” ads, then I’d say McCaskill is in trouble. I have feeling that a lot of people are going to be voting a straight Republican ticket, even if that means voting for some less-than-ideal candidate.

In local related news, Scott Brown is leading against moon-bat Elizabeth Warren, AKA Princess Liawatha, Little Big Liar, Fauxcahontas, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Cherokee Esquaw-at-law.

I’ve seen ZERO private yard signs for McCaskill in the KC ‘burbs. At least 25 for Akin. Most of them came down after his remark, and went back up on September 25th. The only McCaskill signs I have seen are the big ones put up on “community” subdivision areas where no one is sure who put them there. If people around here are voting for her, they ain’t advertising it. I think he’ll win, mainly because MO (especially KC burbs) have become more conservative since 2006.

Speaking of political yard signs… I was recently in the Hannibal, MO area, driving south along Route 79 (beautiful scenic route along the Mississippi) and, amid the usual scattering of local political yard signs, saw several green and white “Pat Quinn” yard signs. They appeared to be the same color and design as the “Pat Quinn for Governor” signs we saw in Illinois a couple of years ago.

Well, this struck me as very odd because (a) the signs were in Missouri and (b) Quinn isn’t even up for election this year. So what gives? Is it some kind of cautionary thing meant to remind their fellow Missourians not to vote Democrat if they don’t want to end up like their totally fiscally screwed neighbors across the river, perhaps? Or is there another explanation?