Mitt Romney refused to talk about fellow Republican Todd Akin's bat-crap crazy comments or the topic of abortion on Thursday, according to a TV reporter in Denver. In a local news broadcast, KCNC-TV’s Shaun Boyd said the Romney campaign granted the interview on the condition she did "not ask him about abortion or Todd Akin."
"You know, I had about five minutes with him, and we got through a fair amount of material, actually, in that five minutes," Boyd revealed during the broadcast. "The one stipulation to the interview was that I not ask him about abortion or Todd Akin — he’s the Missouri Republican who created a firestorm after saying women’s bodies shut down in a legitimate rape to prevent pregnancy. I did ask him about health care, the female vote, and energy."
After the Republican candidates tried distancing themselves from Akin, the new hero of the anti-abortion movement, conservatives starting turning on Team Romney in full force.
Mike Huckabee came to the defense of Akin today saying, "I'm waiting for the apology from whoever the genius was on the high pedestals of our party who thought it wise to not only shoot our wounded, but run over him with tanks and trucks and then feed his body to the liberal wolves."
Further cementing the right-wing outrage against the Republican 2012 ticket, Jennifer Mason of Personhood USA told the Daily Beast, "Romney and Ryan have turned their backs on the Republican Party platform in cases of rape... That's a huge problem."
Team Obama and the DNC ate up the civil war brewing within the Republican Party by posting the TV clip and issuing a memo to reporters. The statement read, "The Republican Party’s officially endorsed the Akin amendment, which would ban abortion for all women, including rape victims, and Paul Ryan has struggled to explain his support for redefining rape. Mitt Romney’s campaign might be able to muzzle reporters from asking tough questions, but women across America deserve to know the truth about Romney-Ryan’s extreme agenda."
With just four days to go until the Republican National Convention, the Romney campaign's agenda snowballed this week after Congressman Akin's comments on "legitimate rape." Instead of talking about the economy or foreign policy, they have been forced to address the GOP's strict anti-abortion platform and other social issues that might scare away Independent voters.
Perhaps he'd care to discuss his secret tax returns instead?
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Geeze, 19 post topics on the same tired inconsequential other than the Missouri Senatorial election in the last three days now! Incredible! Give it a break. Even MSNBC's Chuck Todd has said the media is getting totally distracted with the sensational aspects of the news cycles, and underreporting the real issues that need debating, like the disasterous econony and how best to improve it. Get a life, O'Donnell!
C'mon Longey you know Romney think's any question's about Akin or abortion are not "legitament".
If you knew how to spell legimate, you might understand what it meant, as you could look it up in a dictionary, joca!
Wow...look who else should spend some time with a dictionary? None other than our very own resident grammar-challenged oaf of the right wing, Keith Longey. Given the quantity you engage in, you should seriously pay more attention when your browser is pointing out your mistakes, Keith. The only time you don't screw it up is when you plagiarize some author and try to pass their work off as your own.
"legimate"? Is that an indigenous sandwich filling from down under?
That's one of your more easily recognizable traits...the way you provide all that's ever needed to rebut what you say, time after time.
You make this way too-o-o-o easy...
Enough about Akin: I think we need to talk about Claire McCaskill so that she has as much name recognition as her opponent. Otherwise, he *will* win on election day.
Team Romney suffers from the same weakness as do Palin, Bachmann, Santorum, Cain, and other gutless political lightweights:
Mitt regards any reporter or interviewer who has the temerity to hold him accountable for his previously stated positions to be a bullying, biased member of a left-wing conspiracy, and he views any question for which he is unwilling or unable to provide an honest, substantive question to be a "gotcha" question.
In short, Romney and his campaign staff feel that members of the news media should act as though they areworking for his public relations department, only asking him the questions that he WANTS to be asked.
It's curious. Romney says that he is highly qualified to be POTUS based on his extensive experience as a "job creator" and fiscal manager while at Bain ... however we should not be allowed to analyze or critique said business experience, nor his ethics and values with respect to taxation policies.
Mitt to news media and Obama campaign:
"Don't discuss my personal finances, my business practices, my recent overseas trip, the socially conservative policies and legislative proposals of my running mate, and most of all, don't discuss my own policies and programs while Governor of Massachusetts."
Okay, let's talk about something totally benign ... "Mitt, how's Seamus? What? Don't talk about the dog either?"
If you've just given a major policy speech in the state of Colorado on this nations needs to deveop a sane energy policy and stop the war on fossile fuels being waged by this present bizzare administration, and the reporters only want to question your views on some senatorial candiate's ignorant and offensive statements about women's biology and rape, what would your response be, after you already spent two days responding to that. It's obvious the media is using this simply as a distraction from the real issues, as it smacks of sex, and sex of any kind is sensational, and sells. Why do you think O'Donnell has made this the subject of 19 post topics and MSNBC devoted so much of the last three days coverage of that idiosyncratic to the Missouri senatorial election only issue? Other than to try to hang it as an albatross around Romney's and Ryan's necks.
Seems the MSNBC ratings are in the bottom of the barrel when it comes to cable news networks, and this is the reason why. Still, they think that there is a market for this kind of crap, so they soldier on, attempt to help out the Obama failing campaign, that was and will continue to lose the discussion on issues of the economy, our dreadful fiscal situation, energy, defense, and healthcare, including Medicare.
Romney simply does not want to be vetted for the position which he expects the public to vote him into. I've seen several of his interviews and doesn't answer any of the questions being asked of him. He routinely recites canned, practiced verbage which insults the intelligence of both the interviewer and the viewing public. How can we ever trust a man who is not honest with us?
How many countries contain North America? Well. lucky they, they are going to be energy independent by 2020 too.
A three nation energy alliance for North America is surely a good idea, Joe. Especially as we are the Saudi Arabia of coal, the least expensive and most readily avialable fuel for electricity generation.
Fantastic idea, Keith...why don't we just simply stipulate that any and all coal burned in the US can only be burned in...say, upwind of CT?
I believe other than Northern New England and Rhode island that is the case, Eyes Wide Shut, unless the winds are due Northerly or due Easterly. Alright by me!. Just spare me the huge tracts of land or off shore Windmills, that cost so much more for their subsidized inefficient electricity production, are an eyesore on the landscape or seascape, and kill so much of our birdlife, including geese and ducks and grouse and woodcock, which I surely do like to hunt in my Connecticut fields and mountain sides, ponds, riverways, and ocean waters.
Get a clue!
It's evident that the term "upwind from CT" went over your head.
Think about it...legitimately, of course...
Who does he think he is, setting the rules? He is so arrogant. He probably thinks he walks on water. Lord help him.
He hates government so bad, why is he fighting for a government job?
Why hasn't anyone ever asked: if the GOP is so caught up with the sanctity of life, why is it only specifically unborn life? What about the young men that die in combat missions that should'nt be happening?; or the people that die in state executions - some of which we know are innocent. There are so many people dying in this country that could be prevented - what about them? Where is the sanctity of life for born people? Oviously its not about life, its about controlling people whereever and however they can with a "smaller" government...
Criminals have the right of trials and appeals to profess their innocence. Just about all criminals on death row that win appeals do so because of technicalities...and what of the two rapists like the two home invaders in the state of Connecticut found guilty of raping, torturing, and murduring a mother and her two daughters, one of them just 10 years of age, the two girls burned to death tied in their beds, found guilty by a jury of theirature peers, and given the reckoned death sentences, which our liberal legislature has just passed legislation that can not be carried out, giving these two monsters the chance to gain parole some time in the future and reenter society again? Spare them? Feed and clothe them? Sheter them? Provide them with recreation activities?
As to our all voluteer military services, some men and women in our country see defending our nation and our allies as a patriotic duty, and don't shrink from the possibility of wounds and death. And bless them for it! This is a dangerous world!
But fetuses don't have the ability to prove their innocence, nor the ability to make a decision at 18 to 40 years of age if they wish to enter military service volutrily in our nation. They don't have any chance at all! GaryinLiberalLaLa Land!