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Todd Akin Throws a Tantrum and Whines that Claire McCaskill isn’t Ladylike
Want to know how Republican Todd Akin is gonna win the Missouri Senate race? He’s gonna win because Democrat Claire McCaskill wasn’t “ladylike” at the debate. She was “aggressive”.
Akin told the Charlotte Observer, “I think we have a very clear path to victory, and apparently Claire McCaskill thinks we do, too, because she was very aggressive at the debate, which was quite different than it was when she ran against Jim Talent. She had a confidence and was much more ladylike (in 2006), but in the debate on Friday she came out swinging, and I think that’s because she feels threatened.”
So perhaps that was a legitimate debate, if she felt legitimately threatened, but then bad Claire got “aggressive” and we all know that legitimate ladylike wins.
The other so not ladylike thing McCaskill did was put out an ad drawing attention to Akin’s legitimate extremism as soon as the very last deadline for him to drop out passed.
McCaskill’s ad was clever in that it used Akin’s legitimate rape comments as part of a broader picture of who he is. McCaskill also hit Akin on his dislike of Social Security, his belief that Medicare was unconstitutional, his position that the minimum wage should be abolished, and his campaign pledge to eliminate student loans. The ad was designed to point out Akin’s extremism. The centerpiece of that extremism is Akin’s legitimate rape comments.
Todd Akin’s path to victory is that Claire McCaskill wasn’t ladylike because she is threatened by him, which suggests that if a woman is aggressive, it’s because she’s threatened, not because she is a good competitor.
Legitimate rape believer Todd Akin didn’t pull out when the GOP wanted him to, and now they’re flocking to support the Republican and all of his extremist policies, “The National Republican Senatorial Committee now supports his candidacy and has reopened the door to spending on his behalf.”
Not to worry, that isn’t too hard for the Republicans, since Akin’s beliefs are mirrored in the national party’s platform, but this is a topic they prefer to keep under wraps.
It looked like Akin was going to take a beating at the polls after he told us all that women can’t get pregnant if they are legitimately raped. People were shocked. Republicans ran away in droves. But Akin, clearly a believer in Republican fantasies that violate all standards of science and anatomy and indeed history, hung in there. He claims that he can ride Romney’s coattails to a win because people won’t cross over party lines after casting their vote for the rich guy.
Perhaps not, but then, why would they need to when Romney has the same beliefs as Akin? Yes, Romney said he supported the Personhood Amendment and then he told Americans that he actually believed in exceptions for the life of the mother. But guess whose campaign quietly retracted that after Romney tricked the public in his big interview? That’s right. Turns out the Romney campaign says Romney doesn’t believe in exceptions in the case of the the life of the mother.
Romney equals Akin on women’s issues, and that’s not ladylike at all, because there is no legitimate reason to force a woman to have the baby of a rapist, and there’s even less of a legitimate reason to force a woman to die under the guise of being “pro-life”.
The GOP has a message for all you women — your place is to be ladylike when you are being legitimately raped in a campaign. If you are aggressive enough in fighting a rape you won’t get pregnant, which never would have happened in the first place if you were ladylike enough. But, if you are aggressive when fighting in an election, you are threatened and therefor are not ladylike. So, it’s not ladylike to fight back, but if you don’t fight back, you will be forced to carry Todd Akin’s baby. Or something. Shh! Go be ladylike, girls.
Claire better watch out or Akin will have all of his frat-boy staffers mocking her at his rallies, acting all unladylike and stuff, because they are such Southern gentlemen.
A few reminders are in order: Rapists cause rape, not the behavior of the target. Rape can and does result in pregnancy. Women are human beings, not dolls. They can compete fiercely and well. Being aggressive in competition is a position of strength and a source of pride for women just as it is for men. It is not a woman’s job to take it easy on a man in competition so that his ego isn’t bruised, which seems to be what Todd Akin is hoping to achieve by trying to force McCaskill to back off and be ‘ladylike’.
If Todd Akin can’t take the heat of an aggressive Claire McCaskill, he should get out of the country’s kitchen. Whining isn’t going to cut it.
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15 Responses to Todd Akin Throws a Tantrum and Whines that Claire McCaskill isn’t Ladylike
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Reynardine
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Perhaps if he wishes his opponant to be more ladylike, he should be more gentlemanly. Or even manly at all.
SinghX
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Perhaps it’s part of his fundamentalist christian “guy code” (been following the “Hate Watch” banter on violence against women…ugly business).
Perhaps this is “code” Todd is spreading, as in, someone should do something about that uppity woman who dares to reveal his lack of knowledge every chance she gets…note the verbiage, “she came out swinging…”. Is it fair to assume that if he lays charge that she’s the one who took the first swing at him, then it’s fair play to her to put her in her place (which is code for violence).
How dare an educated women like McCaskill be allowed to speak in public or run for office against the patriarchy of ignorance that keeps people like Akin in a job?
Reynardine
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
You’ve been following us, huh? So far, the Peterheads haven’t shown up, but damn, little Sammy is being picayune.
Elizabeth
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Its code alright. Being “unladylike” denies you all of the protections of being “ladylike”, and thus, anything that should happen would definitely be your fault. “She had it coming”.
Reynardine
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 9:20 pm
It was understood, at one time, that a girl or woman defined as “castrating” was fair game for a beating, or even rape. In academe, you could be so stigmatized for arguing too vigorously with male professors or classmates, or even when you responded too vigorously to putdowns directed at your gender. The most misogynistic fields were fine arts and literature, where males were probably in greatest fear of being outclassed.
SinghX
Sep. 28th, 2012 at 8:04 am
I believe the term was “castrating bitch” to which the response by “The Strident Female” was usually “That’s professional bitch. I’m not a dumb bitch, an ugly bitch or a castrating bitch…I’m a professional bitch..and don’t forget it.”
Akin and his GOP thugs ARE threatening her. They are intimidating the entire state by sending gobs and gobs of dollars to “stop-thought” (cult technique) voters from re-electing someone they really like and has done a good job representing Missouri. (I have a friend in Mo. who’s recently had major hip surgery, but she’s out ringing doorbells for Claire every chance she gets!)
Elizabeth you’re right, but Claire has stick her tongue out, float like a butterfly and sting like a bee Melissa Hernandez style…mak’em cry Claire!
buckeyewill
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Why isn’t the news media revealing Akin as a opponent of the Voting Right Act???
Just asking.
Susie
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
My favorite women behave badly according to Akin. We speak up and can actually behave just like a man if we want to. Akin is now behaving like he thinks a woman would and whining.
sugapea
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Everywhere, I see articles: Why is Obama Winning?
I’ve begun to post this link…saying, This is why the Republican ‘Tea’ Party is not winning election 2012:
Everything Wrong With The Tea Party
www.upworthy.com/everythi...
1voice1vote
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Claire McCaskill is less “ladylike” than she was in 2006 says Todd flunked-anatomy-class Akin? That’s one legitimately lame assertion.
“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” – Mae West
omomma
Sep. 27th, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Claire McCaskill may have seemed ladylike in her last election campaign because she didn’t have to do anything except nod politely and smile. Her opponent, Jim Talent, was somewhat lacking in, uhm, well, just about everything.
Gary Vaughn
Sep. 28th, 2012 at 7:51 am
If this statement gets the RSCC to give him money, then we know it was all a rouse anyway. This is just as bad if not worse than the legitimate rape statement as far as degrading smart or any women for that matter. I am 100% man and I see the wrong in it. Now, if he wants to see un-ladylike, he should come to some of the rock shows my band plays. But I love un-ladylike.
Dave Kilby
Sep. 28th, 2012 at 11:08 am
The only reason someone like Todd Akin is in trouble with his fellow Republicans because he had the audacity to say out loud what the party line is. Take a close look at the Republican platform. The Repubs were hoping that it would throw some red meat to their base and be ignored as usual by the general public. Thanks to Akin and his ilk, that’s not happening.
Check out “The Repuglican War on Women” on “Grumbles From an Old Grouch” (grumblesfromanoldgrouch.c...). You’ll be amazed (and a bit frightened) how many anti-women bills Todd Akin and Paul Ryan co-sponsored along with the vast majority of other House Republicans.
Sandra
Sep. 28th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
I sometimes wonder if they saw 2010 as their last gasp for their party’s survivial and viability and figured they must affect their draconian, misogynistic, voter suppression laws knowing there are not enough of their kind around to keep their party going into the future. As Ms. Lindsay Graham R-SC noted, there are not enough old angry white men to keep their party viable. Could this be their last hurrah?
Anne
Sep. 28th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Todd Akin’s labeling Clair McCaskill as not being
“ladylike” is a transparent attempt to diminish and therefore silence her. He has probably done that during the course of his personal and political lives to women who have had the temerity to criticize him, no matter how justified the criticism has been. He cannot take the heat of his own words used against him, and that’s on top of his cluelessness about rape and its impact on victims. The fact that many Republicans are supporting him again only proves that they think the same way he does. Even if they don’t, they are more interested in winning a seat in the Senate. For them, that trumps everything else.