Did Akin “legitimate rape” doctor meet with Romney?

However, Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor’s home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.

“He told me ‘thank you for your support – we agree on almost everything, and if I am elected President I will make some major pro-life pronouncements’,” Dr Willke said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

“I thanked him, and said I knew where he was – that he was 99 per cent of what we wanted,” he said of the roughly ten-minute meeting. “I told him I would help in any way I could”. A spokesman for Mr Romney declined to comment.

I might need to grab some popcorn because watching Team Romney wiggle their way out of this one is going to be really entertaining.  If he denies the meeting he risks alienating Dr. Wilke, who is very active in the anti-choice movement.  If he confirms that the meeting happened it not only adds more life to the Akin story in the headlines it connects him even more directly to the controversy.  If he says nothing the media will wonder aloud (kind of like I’m doing right now) and speculate.