Akin Strikes Again...and Again, and Again, and...

Todd Akin, Republican candidate for Senate in Misssouri,  has made several outrageous statements over the last several days: he’d like to block federal funding of the school lunch program, he thinks the voting rights act should be overturned, he’d like a total ban on the “morning-after” pill,  and now he claims that the body has mechanisms to shut down pregnancy if a “legitimate rape” has occurred. 

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario — when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail — abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim. “Let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work, or something,” Akin said. “I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”

I’m not making this up, folks.  The truly unbelievable aspect of this is that Akin has a substantial lead in the polls over his Democratic opponent, Senator Claire McCaskill. Akin later issued a statement saying that he had "misspoken", which is politispeak for "I was dead wrong and I'm an idiot!"

Todd Akin’s really over the top

He can’t get his mouth to stop

He gets into a scrape

When he talks about rape

Where does he come up with this slop?

He brought on this latest affair

With a statement made out of thin air

He’s started to intimate

If rape is “legitimate”

Pregnancy’d be very rare.

The good folks out in Missouri

Have a chance to be judge and jury

Don’t take a pass

Get rid of this ass

Vote him out with “legitimate” fury.