there is only one word…schmuck!

This has to be one of the dumbest men ever, but then he seems to be frozen (almost in the prehistoric ice age) in a time when men of his ilk were able to dominate women. Those poor females in his family. Are they happy with this nincompoop’s ideas of a powerful uterus that can stop pregnancy? Would his own daughter and granddaughters be content with making less?

Even better, we should all have jobs like Todd Akin. We and our co-workers just vote ourselves the salary, healthcare, pensions, expense allowances and other benefits we decide we deserve. Okay, Todd?

What is hard for me to understand is why men will accept this drivel of “freedom”. It is only a matter of time until they, too, will be discriminated against by a “free” business owner.

What an idiot!!!!!! This moron needs to be voted out of office!!!!!!

Any Missourian who votes for this slug deserves the hell he or she will be going to.

I think one should read what he actually said:
AKIN: Well, first of all, the premise of your question is that I’m making that particular distinction. I believe in free enterprise. I don’t think the government should be telling people what you pay and what you don’t pay. I think it’s about freedom [emphasis mine]. If someone wants to hire somebody and they agree on a salary, that’s fine, however it wants to work. So the government sticking its nose into all kinds of things has gotten us into huge trouble.
Where does he say to pay a female less than a male for the same duties? He said offer a salary for a job. Do not like it than go some place else for a job.
Where did this writer attend college? Where is the objective reporting of the facts?
I recommend you read the early history of medicine on what physicins not only believed, but practiced as medicine. At one time no male physician would deliver a baby because that was womans work until they could earn money to do the job. At one time all the issues of a female’s medical concerns was only done by a male physician.
How well educated are you??

Mr. Akin, the government is not telling any company what salary to pay anyone. The law just states that the salary set for any position has to be the same for a man or a woman. Would you
like it if a woman doing the same job as you was paid a higher salary than you? I don’t think so.

There is help and medication for Akin. Or he could just get some vouchers and call Mitt in the morning.

what else could you possibly expect from a tried and true idiotic bigot such as Akin?

Why do the repubs really hate Women? Is this part of their agenda, platform, and mind set. Since they allow this “point man” do their attacks on Women, what will they reap in the Nov. elections?

If he feels that employers have the right to pay their employees whatever they choose to pay and that the government has no right to interfere in setting fair wages, etc., then I guess he doesn’t think the government should set a minimum wage either. That employees could just pay slave wages……..because it is their right. We can be just another third world country with a third world economy. Why stop there? Let’s put ten year old children to work in dark, disolate factories. Let’s remove safetey standards from industry altogether and pour pollutants into the water supply. It’s the right of the employer to do whatever he wishes and pay whatever he wants. That should put the economy back to work! And keep those women folk home, barefoot and pregnant…….so long as it isn’t forcible rape, but regular rape is okay……..but we must keep those jobs open only for our men folk. I pray that Akin is never left in the hands of female nurses or a female doctor if he has a heart attack. I’ll just be back here down on my knees, scrubbing my floors and be ever so grateful to the masser’ for the crusts of bread he throws my way.

So no minimal wage and no rights for women. Wow if this guy wins it only shows that people are stupid! I said if you vote for him you are stupid! Who wants to fight about it? MO is the most backwards state in terms of everything.

Well, look at it like this, with Todd Akin we have likely found the missing link. Even his questioner (who was clearly of the Southern persuasion) was smart enough to ask the question in the first place. I wonder what Mr. Akin thinks about the laws which prevent folks from just pouring cement down his throat. To some, that would seem fair. And by his definition fairness is the only rule of the game. I wonder how he feels about collective bargining? Seriously, he is an embarassment to his party and the nation

Special interests, lobby groups, including religious and Atheist groups and activist groups lead us around by the nose. It is all sold to us in the way cigarets and porn were sold to us in the past ignoring the risks, using propaganda and networking tools and skills to entrap us. It amazing how may people get trapped. Karl Marx said that the oligarchy used religious beliefs to “Opiate” the people. In a free enterprise republic there are trillions of different “shades of opiates” . Reminds me of a shopping mall in it was an “adult toy store”, “an addiction center” , “a gynecologist”, “an abortion center”, “an ABC store” “NAMBULA”, “a psychiatrist” a “political activist group” and a “church for lost souls” all in one mall. So we wonder why Akin and others are so confused- really?

George Saufley…PeterBrown..and some other here….What the frig?

What the hell are you talking about that has ANYTHING to do with “Akin Endorses Gender Discrimination As ‘Freedom’.” If you agree with Akin you are simply incapable of any RATIONAL thought….

Get your right wing fascist sentiment to Foxnews and Rove and Limbaugh and that tired old dialogue….

Your lies make me ill..

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels (like Linmbaugh, beck and Rove believe) said it best:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

or as Adolph Hitler stated:
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”

Quoting the article:

“In response to an audience member’s question at a town hall on Thursday, he explained his rationale in voting against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill passed by President Obama on January 29, 2009, ensuring equal pay for men and women doing the same work. Akin’s response? Freedom:
AUDIENCE MEMBER: You voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Why do you think it is okay for a woman to be paid less for doing the same work as a man?
AKIN: Well, first of all, the premise of your question is that I’m making that particular distinction. I believe in free enterprise. I don’t think the government should be telling people what you pay and what you don’t pay. I think it’s about freedom [emphasis mine]. If someone wants to hire somebody and they agree on a salary, that’s fine, however it wants to work. So the government sticking its nose into all kinds of things has gotten us into huge trouble.
Basically, Akin’s whole argument is that employers should be able to freely discriminate against their employees in whatever way they see fit.”

Well…I have rarely called for a Machivellian solution to Akin or any right wing wing nut like him….but….if he should be re-elected….

He needs to do a “Jimmy Hoffa.”

To Norm: How would you like to be denied gainful employment because the business owner believes that men are too stupid?

Mr. Akin and people who think the way he does have forgotten or ignored one of the basic principles of our country. He must be too old to remember standing in his classroom as a child and stating the words, “with liberty and justice for all”.

“All”. That means no exception based on some mis-guided notion that anyone has the right to deny liberty and equality to another person regardless of the circumstances.

People have died defending that principle and it is a disgrace that Akin is just too stupid to recognize his own folly.

“AKIN: Well, first of all, the premise of your question is that I’m making that particular distinction. I believe in free enterprise. I don’t think the government should be telling people what you pay and what you don’t pay. I think it’s about freedom [emphasis mine]. If someone wants to hire somebody and they agree on a salary, that’s fine, however it wants to work. So the government sticking its nose into all kinds of things has gotten us into huge trouble.”

“Basically, Akin’s whole argument is that employers should be able to freely discriminate against their employees in whatever way they see fit.”

Using this well informed, educated, dedicated Republican own words, we the people should be to decide on these polticians saalary, benefits, and other matters of their “employment”. Sure we elect them, but they decide their own salaries, retirement, medical, vacations and many other benefit much superior to any of us.. Why is it if they work for us (Ha HA) that they decide their own terms.
To put the shoe on the other foot, can any of us get hired then dicatate our wn terms. I dont think he would his own statement if “we the people”-his employer, dictate his, and all other politictions wages, benefits. It sure would be nice – we could decrease the nation debt quickly1

My problem with his statement is simple. Akin claims that he believes the way he does because government has no right dictating how people should act, what they do, and how am employer controls his employees. They what the hell business is it what the women do with their bodies? It appears that it is ok for an employer to tell a woman what kind of medical treatment she is allowed to get, but she is not to be paid an equal amount as a man for doing the same job. Someone commented that if a woman wants to move up the ladder, she needs to work hard to get there. This is not the issue here – of course I would agree with that. But once she gets up the ladder she should be paid the same as any other person in that same position. THAT, my friend, is the issue here – doesn’t have anything to do with getting to the position it has to do with how you are treated once you get there. If she can do the same work in the same quality – she should be paid the same amount as anyone else in that same position. I cannot believe that a group of people how want to represent us and in Romney’s case, preside over us believes anything different.

The only problem with Akin in the eyes of the GOP is that he is actually for once, telling the truth about the party he represents. I’ll give him credit for that anyway. Keep this and the “legitimate rape” issue in your mind when you go to vote – the “R” still means reverse and it was once again proven by an R.

Oh, well..I said he has that “narcissistic personality”…just like “Mitt” with the two “t’s in the first name..and now we have the two d’s in Todd…by the way the d’s represent discrimination doesn’t it…it fits him to a tea…out of his mouth he is revealing the truth about him and what he is thinking…he seems to have a problem with liking women..we really should look into his personal background..dont’ you think…or go to his shrink to see if he has mental problems stemming from his childhood and his realtionship with his mother..poor thing…give enough to this leopard…who has many spots on him as “Mitt” does and he is going to hang hisself…he don’t need any help in doing so..does he?…no woman is going to vote for him..beware of what is going on in his head…he gets dumber everyday..just as Mitt is doing…same image…con-artists and liars…he is discriminating against women…wrong..wrong…wrong!

i think mr akin needs to have his head examined he needs a new job as he is not fighting for our freedom or anybodys at all i really dont know where in the heck he gets all off the wall ideas he sure isnt thinking with a full deck i think he is trying to make a name for himself but not a good name he couldnt have had a mother to teach him right or wrong cause he sure doesnt know how wrong he is i feel sorry if he has a wife or even a sister that must b tough for them

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“You have the right to remain silent——–that’s it sweerheart!”

If that is the real reason, why not pay MEN less?

Orwellian Doublethink.

Sorry, Charlie, that’s illegal, too. Stupid!

OK. The comments below were posted in response to “nomdeplume’s moronic post about “just not hiring women to keep from having sexual harassment charges filed. Disqus is too stupid to post them where you write them.

“Free at last…..free at last.” “Thank God almighty I’m free to discriminate against uteri at last.”

Let’s give Todd Akin credit for being honest.
He doesn’t believe women should be paid the same as men when doing the same job…and he says so!
Akin believes that women who are raped have a built-in biological defense against becoming pregnant…if the rape is legitimate…and he says so!
Akin believes his opponent, Claire McCaskill, has not run a “ladylike” campaign…and he says so!
It is incredible that the Republican Party would have a man like Todd Akin running for any political office…but that’s what’s happening in Missouri!
Todd Akin…A GOOD REASON TO VOTE DEMOCRAT ON NOVEMBER 6th!