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The bassist for led zepplen. >> mitt romney was asked if akin should remove himself from the race. >> his comments about rape were deeply offensive. and i can't defend what he said. i can't defend him. >> do you think for the benefit of the party he should drop out. >> the thing that he should consider is what's in the best interest of the things he believes deeply. >> why didn't he just go further? >> because everybody is working behind the scenes now. finally. to put some discipline you know, nicole wallace. when we were so dispondant on the state of the republican party. she says, i'm just ...

Quietly ignored in national politics. noticed by the activists to whom they answer but not noticed by any of us. do you think they'll still take the paul ryan/todd akin position on rape victims in the national platform again this year or do you think now that's going to have to change? bob mcdonnell is the one who decides. joining us now is frank rich, writer at lark for new york magazine. mr. rich, great to see you. >> great to be here, rachel. >> it's all in bob mcdonnell's hands. >> as long as he's not waskivin wand. >> you have to excise all magic wand references when talking about bob mcd...

Those folks were always around in anti-abortion politics and republican politics, but now, in this republican party, they have taken over. pa it was sarah palin's position in 2008 as the republican party nominee that there should be no exceptions for rape and incest victims when the party would criminal liza bortion. in 2010, it was the position of a whole bunch of republican senate candidates. sharron angle as the republican u.s. senate candidate in nevada. she said the government forcing a rape victim to bear the rapist's child should be thought of as a way to make lemonade out of lemons. ab...

In 1998, in arkansas again, the republican u.s. senate candidate running against blanche lincoln, a man named fay boozman was reported in a local arkansas paper to have told a crowd at a political gathering that there was no need for a rape victims' exception to making abortion criminal because of something he described as god's little shield. he later denied using the exact phrase god's little shield, but he did explain further that based on anecdotal information he had collected as an opthalmologist, he knew that real rape victims could not get pregnant from a rape biologically speaking. in ...

Of a human life, you could oppose an exception for cases of rape and incest. you can believe no matter how the baby fetus or embryo is c conceived, that is a taking of the life. that is not the majority of the republican party. some people for some time, that is inconsistent. when congress member akin went over the line, it is to suggest there are different degrees of rape and not so real rape. women had anti-secret baby juice they could secrete. it is insuranensitive. >> ruth, the republicans haven't been consistent about this nor has mitt romney or paul ryan