As if Mitt Romney wasn’t already going to have a bad week, Rep. Akin was summarily tossed into the RomneyShambles news cycle pyre by his wife, Lulli Akin, who claimed that the GOP’s abandonment of her husband was akin to the British raping American colonist’s daughters and wives… or something. It’s tyranny!
Rep. Todd Akin’s wife, Lulli Akin, says the Republican Party’s attempts to push her husband out of the Missouri Senate race — over his false assertion that women who are raped rarely get pregnant — are like rape itself.
She also believes the GOP’s abandonment is on par with the tyranny that launched the American Revolution.
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Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections “by the people and for the people” with “tyranny, a top-down approach.” She added, “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way.”
She cited colonists who “rose up and said, ‘Not in my home, you don’t come and rape my daughters and my … wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?”
[read full post at ABLC]