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Chan Lowe: Todd Akin and rape II
Chan Lowe: Todd Akin and rape II

Considering that the Republican Party’s platform committee, meeting yesterday in Tampa, just adopted a plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion without exceptions, it appears that the party establishment is brutalizing Todd Akin for the heinous crime of having blurted its official position out loud.   Akin has decided to flip a giant finger to the party, which never supported him in the first place and was only grudgingly doing so because he became the official nominee. More power to him. Sure, the line about women “shutting it all down” in the case of “legitimate” rape was maladroit, but that absurd reasoning is about the only...