By Vanessa • 12 years ago

What We Missed

Todd Akin is not dropping out of his race for the Senate because  “there’s a cause here.” And that cause would be… magical pregnancy prevention powers? Trying to insult everyone ever before he loses horribly?

More Akin: “There are great people, a songwriter from Missouri and others, who are products of rape.”

Transcript after the jump.

via @embeedub, here’s all of us watching the GOP just keep talking:
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Stephanie Schriock: The Republican Party, led by Romney, is just wrong on this issue.

Andrea Mitchell: Thank you very much. We should point out we have been trying to get the Romney campaign to join this debate today, and they have said that they don’t have an appropriate spokesperson, but we will keep trying. Thank you very much for being with us, Stephanie Schriock from Emily’s List.

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