I couldn't care less if Todd Akin runs, doesn't run, gets
elected to the Senate, or doesn’t get elected.
He’s just one of the many dinosaurs and luddites that inhabit the
political world.
I think he actually believes that horseshit he spewed about
women’s bodies having some secret juju that rejects pregnancy as a result of “legitimate
rape”.
If only more politicians would be called out on the stoopid
crap they say. Michelle Bachmann saying
God told her to run. That should have
ended her political life long before the bullcrap about HPV immunization
causing retardation.
So many of these dinosaurs insist on attempting to inflict
their misguided religious values on other people. Think life is sacred and there should be no
abortion (or, as the arch-conservative meme now is, “until Roe v. Wade is
properly decided”)? Fine. Don’t have an abortion. Think abortion is murder? Fine.
Don’t have an abortion.
Trying to run other people’s lives, lifestyles, morals, and
values is big in the vein of flawed thinkers like Todd Akin, who in the next
breath will say that gubbmint should stay out of our lives.
Why do these dinosaurs like Akin, Bachmann, Rick Perry, that
Santorini person, and others of their ilk continue to present themselves for “public
service”? Because they see themselves,
apparently, as missionaries and proselytizers.
A crypto-conservative Texas talk show host of my
acquaintance (Chris Krok) spewed some nonsense on his social media feed the
other day about Jenny McCarthy being a horrible mother because she consorted
with a man outside wedlock. To
fundamentalists like Krok, the admonition “judge not, that ye be not judged”
doesn’t apply to them.
The time will not come in my lifetime, but eventually these
dinosaurs will die off, and we can go back to the halcyon days when common thieves
and hard drinkers ran Congress.
