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Duggars on stump for Missouri's Akin
By The Associated Press
This article was published October 15, 2012 at 8:02 a.m.
The Duggars sing and play at a wedding when new episodes of 19 Kids and Counting kick in at 8 p.m. today on TLC.
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In this photo taken Sept. 21, 2012, Republican Rep. Todd Akin speaks during a debate in the Missouri Senate race in Columbia, Mo. Written off by many ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin his getting some help from a large Arkansas family that has its own TV reality show.
Akin’s campaign says the family of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar will be appearing at several of his campaign events this week. The Duggars star on the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, which gets its name from the fact they have 19 children.
Michelle Duggar plans to participate in a women-for-Akin event Tuesday in Springfield, Mo. The Duggar family is supposed to attend rallies with Akin later that day in Osage Beach and Wednesday in Farmington and Poplar Bluff.
Akin, a Republican, is running against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the Nov. 6 election.
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JIMBOB47 says... October 15, 2012 at 8:58 a.m.
If I were a Missourian, I'd vote for Donald Duck before voting for McCaskill. She is the Pelosi from the midwest. I total idiot and lackey for the big Dems from Chicago.
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BillSmith says... October 15, 2012 at 11:17 a.m.
JimBob47.... You are voting for Doald Duck when you vote for "Legitimate Rape" Todd Akin, Jim Bob needs a few more wives and he could start his own right wing militia and you coul volunteer to train them for free.
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LevitiCuss says... October 15, 2012 at 11:52 a.m.
The Duggars are but one reason the rest of the world laughs at Arkansas- while the rest of us weep.
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bills4ever says... October 15, 2012 at 12:04 p.m.
Amen to BillSmith! and to LevitiCuss.
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dconard says... October 15, 2012 at 12:09 p.m.
Arkansas should be proud of the Duggars! They manage to raise, feed & clothe 19 well behaved kids WITHOUT accepting government support! Shows some 'Ozark ingenuity' if you ask me.
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jetjohn says... October 15, 2012 at 1 p.m.
Way to go dconard!! At least the Duggar's ARE NOT looking for a gov't check in the mail!!! They make their OWN way!!!! They teach their children MORALS, which so many are lacking now days!!!!!
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JakeTidmore says... October 15, 2012 at 1:03 p.m.
If you want to discuss morals and wisdom, then Akins is certainly the man who is lacking in that department when it comes to women, rape, forced vaginal probes, medieval medical practices, etc.
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jetjohn says... October 15, 2012 at 1:08 p.m.
JakeTidmore....and I guess you know this from experience???????
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NoUserName says... October 15, 2012 at 1:19 p.m.
What a witty comeback.
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JakeTidmore says... October 15, 2012 at 1:54 p.m.
What do you expect NoUserName when it comes from people who don't like it when you use facts or fact-checkers. JJ's droll drivel is already stale before he hits Post Comment button.
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JakeTidmore says... October 15, 2012 at 2:05 p.m.
From Egberto Willies:
Let me be clear, I do not subscribe to the belief that the Republican Party has always been inherently anti woman. What I will state categorically is that those that have taken over the Republican Party are anti-woman and they are in fact waging a war on women.
Why would they do this? After-all aren’t half of their constituents women? The reasons are clear. This new Republican Party is now controlled by a patriarchal evangelical Right Wing and a chauvinist business class that inherently want certain people to remain “in their place”.
For the evangelicals, their modus operandi is no different than the Taliban with class and sophistication. For the chauvinist business class it is about those that belong in those “exclusive clubs” and not having government tell them that their board room and leadership must reflect America.
When Missouri Republican Senatorial Candidate Todd Akins says that a woman’s body protects itself from legitimate rape he is stating a position that most in the Evangelical Right Wing are comfortable with. Why can I state that? The policy of not supporting abortions even for rape or incest could not muster support of many if that belief system were absent.
While Virginia has been getting all the press about the Republican written law that requires that women have an ultrasound before an abortion, the country was left ignorant to the most obscene of these laws. The Republican Texas legislature also passed the sonogram law that demeans women.
There are myriads of these types of comments scattered throughout the Internet on the Right Wing Republican ideology. As I stated ad nauseum, your vote matters. You must educate yourself and educate your circle of influence. But most importantly you must cast an educated vote.
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inquire says... October 15, 2012 at 2:09 p.m.
Those who think the Duggars are so wonderful would learn a lot if they googled "no longer quivering", Bill Goddard, ATI, etc. That is where you can learn the truth about what it is often like to grow up in that kind of family, what the women and older girls really go through. Some say the children are always happy. In their religion, they are taught that if they aren't happy, it is because they aren't in God's will, so they learn to force themselves to look happy no matter what they feel inside so that people won't think they are outside the will of God.
It is admirable that they pay their own way in the world, but they couldn't do it without the older girls of a family literally being in bondage. Not only do they take on far more responsibility for child rearing than is normal in a family, but the girls are encouraged to NOT go to college. They have to live at home and do the work of the family until they marry, no matter how old they are when that happens.
Their religion thinks it is best if women don't vote, that women should let their husbands, fathers, or brothers vote their interests for them.
The Duggars are Quiverfull royalty who have struck it rich, but many other Quiverfull wives live lives of hardship and desperation as they are pressured to keep having children that they cannot properly support.
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JakeTidmore says... October 15, 2012 at 2:20 p.m.
In addition to all the ideas associated with Akins and his intent; I remain steadfast in the belief that he is chiefly influenced by his religious beliefs that man is superior to woman and his qualifier about rape is nothing more than an expression of that belief.
An example of that is Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) who was the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) in Utah. He was convicted of 2 counts of sex with minors and later convicted for life + 20 in Texas for much the same. The women and young girls were essentially sex slaves. The young men were exiled. The subjugation of women and/or young girls is common in many religious orders. Right wing christianity tends to lean in that direction where women are "taught", "impressed" and "required" to obey the male. Read submissive.
A right wing religious oriented male with a sense of entitlement in the religious, social and political arenas can easily make the leap to godhead in the home, city, state or country. And that is the intent of right wing christianity here in the U.S. and elsewhere. People like Akin are nothing more than a mullah wannabe.
So, remember: the new slogan for the GOP is no longer "The party of Lincoln." It's now "The party of Legitimate Rape." Lo(one)y Mauch wishes it were so.
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Jjackk says... October 15, 2012 at 8:24 p.m.
I say dump both of them. Look at these candidates, thats the best Missouri can come up with? She's not a ridiculous joke but not any thing special. Both just are party players and will go get their marching orders if they win.
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BarichMilhusseinObamaNixonPOTUS says... October 15, 2012 at 8:28 p.m.
Akin is an idiot that deserves to be voted against, pure and simple. End of story
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Packman says... October 15, 2012 at 8:29 p.m.
Hey Jake - Speaking of that war on women, 1,500 or so unborn women were killed in America today for convenience via abortion. So long as you support Roe v Wade your statement about any other "war" on women is laughable, and pitiful. It's Republicans like Akin and Dugger that want to protect unborn children. It's demorats that promote their killing.
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inquire says... October 15, 2012 at 9:24 p.m.
Democrats do not "promote" abortion. Many do not believe in it for themselves. That is crude and simplistic. Everything is not about abortion, anyway.
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NoCrossNoCrown says... October 17, 2012 at 9:59 p.m.
The republican establishment is the biggest proponent of abortion in this country.
They know that if Roe is ever overturned, they will not have that issue to get these low information voters to support their agenda. They put on a good front and use lots of scare tactics and misinformation to get the evangelical voters to support laws that will hurt them economically under the guise of doing gods work.....
small g because that's not my God's way......
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inquire says... October 17, 2012 at 10:30 p.m.
Several of us have pointed out in the past that it was a mostly Republican Supreme Court that passed Roe v. Wade.
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