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RUSH: Now, you say you\u2019re Tea Party from Camdenton. Akin <\/a>technically is not a Tea Party candidate, though.<\/p>\n CALLER: He\u2019s not, but that\u2019s what\u2019s being reported on the mainstream media that he is a Tea Party candidate from Missouri, and there\u2019s been several. The people voting for him here across map in Missouri, the Tea Partiers, they\u2019re all over the place. There is no one candidate that they particularly fell in love with. I didn\u2019t even vote for Akin in the primary. But what I do know is that he\u2019s got a wonderful family, his wife is terrific, he\u2019s caring, he has two daughters, he has two sons that are Marine Corps officers that serve overseas, and what I simply say, he said something very stupid, and he immediately came and apologized, sincerely apologized, I believe, and I think at some point you have to take a look at the totality of the man\u2019s record, his service, his family, and his honesty. I think that the senatorial Republican committee ought to get a backbone. They threw him overboard yesterday like they do with their — Nobody\u2019s better than eating their own than the GOP is.<\/p>\n RUSH: That\u2019s not gonna change. I don\u2019t care what you say or think. George Allen is the latest to come out and call for Akin to step down. George Allen of Macaca.<\/p>\n CALLER: Let me give you a list.<\/p>\n RUSH: I think there\u2019s a letter that\u2019s just gone out in the state of Missouri that John Ashcroft has put his name to, high political officials, Republican officials in Missouri calling on Akin to quit, and Ashcroft is a powerful name on that letter, as you would know.<\/p>\n CALLER: And we don\u2019t want John Ashcroft. We want a conservative senator, at least one from the state of Missouri, and I think Senator Blunt ought to say out of the issue —<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, he\u2019s not. He\u2019s in there.<\/p>\n CALLER: No, he\u2019s not, but he should.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, it\u2019s too late for that. They\u2019re all in there. I mean, this is a tidal wave now.<\/p>\n CALLER: You know, we\u2019re two months from the election, Rush. There\u2019s plenty of time for Mr. Akin, who has a great record —<\/p>\n RUSH: I know. And at the end of the day Claire McCaskill is still stupid, too. And Claire McCaskill still voted for Obamacare. And Missourians still hate Obamacare. And nothing\u2019s changed about Claire McCaskill. She voted for Obamacare. Missourians don\u2019t want any part of Obamacare. And most Missourians don\u2019t want any part of Claire McCaskill anymore.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s true. Seventy-one percent of the folks here in Missouri voted against Obamacare when it came up for a referendum in the state of Missouri. And we\u2019re not gonna forget that, but I think the GOP is too reactionary about this. They\u2019re too concerned about losing this race, and I think Mr. Akin is still very much in this race. I think he\u2019s done the right thing by coming forward and acknowledging he said something very stupid.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n CALLER: I think the GOP needs to move on and get behind the candidate.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, they\u2019re not. They\u2019re not gonna do that. That\u2019s not gonna happen. In fact, Blunt, Senator Ashcroft, Kit Bond, Danforth, Jim Talent, they\u2019ve all now called for Akin to go. That was just tweeted. And there\u2019s a letter that\u2019s gone around, with many of those same names having signed the letter suggesting that the prudent thing for Todd Akin to do is to withdraw from the race. I appreciate the call, Cliff, very much.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, this is Kathy. I\u2019m glad you waited. Great to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you. Hi! Well, I also think he ought to stay in the race.<\/p>\n RUSH: (deep breath)<\/p>\n CALLER: Hello?<\/p>\n RUSH: Tell us why.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: Go ahead.<\/p>\n CALLER: Tell us why? Okay. Well, the people of Missouri are the ones that voted him in. Now, this idea about it was a lot of Democrats crossing over. Perhaps. I found this interesting, that the radio ads that Claire McCaskill was running, I never heard any against Steelman or Brunner. They were all targeted toward Akin, and it was this idea —<\/p>\n RUSH: There were for Akin! McCaskill was running ads urging people to vote for Akin, and that\u2019s why the Democrats crossed over. McCaskill wanted Akin. She was salivating. Democrats have wanted Akin because of the abortion issue and “social issues.” They think that this is a grand-slam home run for them because they think that they have got somebody that they can now tar and feather the entire Republican Party with as a pro-life kook.<\/p>\n CALLER: I disagree.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, that\u2019s what they think. I\u2019m just telling you.<\/p>\n CALLER: I don\u2019t think that they\u2019ll be able to. And besides that, why, then, would her ads have said he\u2019s “too conservative for Missouri”? That\u2019s the way the ads were: “He\u2019s too conservative for Missouri.” And so I think, I believe, that she knows that there are a lot of conservatives in Missouri. I never heard anything about the other candidates; just about Akin.<\/p>\n RUSH: I think she called him “the most conservative,” knowing that it would help him. It\u2019s like you say. It\u2019s a plus in Republican primary elections. Look, whatever you think, I\u2019m just telling you what is.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: She wanted Akin. Now she\u2019s got him. We\u2019ll see what happens. She wanted Akin.<\/p>\n CALLER: I think we ought-a leave him.<\/p>\n RUSH: I don\u2019t care —<\/p>\n CALLER: Because I think what\u2019s gonna happen… Okay, this is what I really believe. If they try to force him out and whoever it is they choose… Number one, I don\u2019t like that. I feel like they have rammed other candidates down our throats, and that is not what we want.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n CALLER: We don\u2019t want someone else choosing for us.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right, but you had somebody choose Akin for you.<\/p>\n CALLER: Let\u2019s stick behind the man.<\/p>\n RUSH: Does it not bother you that you had McCaskill choosing this one for you —<\/p>\n CALLER: She didn\u2019t!<\/p>\n RUSH: — in a reverse psychological way?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, she didn\u2019t choose him for me because I voted for him (chuckles), and there are a lot of people who did. And I think, honestly, that Missouri will elect him. And I think if the Republican Party gets in here and messes with this, I think they will lose, whoever it is they\u2019re planning to put up. I\u2019m sure that they\u2019ve got their plans, but I think they\u2019re gonna lose it because to not stick behind our guy and to throw him under the bus like this is going to anger a lot of the conservatives. Leave him and let him run. And you know what? Here\u2019s another thing. I used to be on the other side of this abortion issue. I worked for NOW back when I was in my college days.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n CALLER: And there were a lot of things that I did not understand. Actually, there still are. And I do a lot of reading. But there are issues that I have to be instructed on still. And so for him to have said something like that? You know what, I\u2019ve heard that same thing, that a woman\u2019s body shuts down. You know, whenever the… You know, when people are in prison, sometimes that happens. So it kind of made sense. Okay — okay —<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay. See, this is the problem. It doesn\u2019t! It doesn\u2019t “make sense.” There have been rapist marauders in wartime throughout the history of humanity! A woman\u2019s body doesn\u2019t “shut down.” See, this is exactly my point at the beginning of the program. Please understand here. I\u2019m not being critical of you. 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<\/a>I know it\u2019s not you, because you\u2019re a former NOW aficionado and so forth. But this idea that a woman\u2019s body “shuts down” is something that a group of people have contrived as they desperately try to persuade people to see things their way. Now, I know exactly what\u2019s going on here. You have a case of rape and a pregnancy, and the true pro-lifer says, “It\u2019s not the baby\u2019s fault. Why should there be an exception? It\u2019s not the baby\u2019s fault!”<\/p>\n