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The republican incumbent. >> 12 years after the john ashcroft versus a person who is no longer among us race, the good and great state of missouri is once again facing a bit of a ballot problem. if you think it's complicated when one of the candidates dies, look at what they're dealing with this year. congressman todd akin was just picked up by republican voters in missouri to be their senate nominee, to challenge the sitting democratic u.s. senator claire mccaskill. yesterday, todd akin doused his political career, lit a match, and you know the rest. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female b...

Akin will complain and scream and yell about it. >> and fight it. how we got here is interesting and where we're going is interesting. ha we got here i think is the party falling apart and the conservative movement, which has always bolstered the republican party, has stepped in. they don't have any gsker whatsoever when it comes to radical antiabortion politics. there's nobody in the conservative movement saying don't push on the rape and incest exemptions. that's going to weird out republican voters and women. there's nobody who can speak in a way to shut them down. w where we're going is a ...

About todd akin's viability and his insanely out there offensive politics on this issue and how the republican party can afford to keep a guy like that on the ballot in that important race, once again, you have to ask why the freakout about todd akin when the republican party has picked somebody with the exact same track record, with the exact same policy record. his co sponsor on all of the bills to be the party's vice presidential nominee. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> this is a moment of instability in republican politics. to...

Republicans in all of those states in the past couple years have moved to overtly go after rape victims and incest victims and anti-abortion laws removing protections they used to have in law. in the house of representatives, federally, when republicans voted on a new abortion ban for washington, d.c. recently it, of course, had no exceptions for rape victims or incest victims. hr-3, the third bill introduced by the republican majority when they took over the house after the 2010 raekzs, h raekzs, -- e hr-3 was not just a federal roll-back of abortion rights. it initially tried to redefine rap...

Huckabee asked if he would support something like that, he told mike huckabee, absolutely. mr. romney then picked the national personhood guy for his vice president. a congressman who sponsored bills to redefine rape and force women to have medically unnecessary ultrasounds. he picked for his vice presidential nominee a politician who has never in his entire political career supported exemptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest when he has advocated criminalizing criminal abortion. but now, today, out of the blue with people disgusted by todd akin's explanation of the thinking behind t...