Karl Rove’s Anti-Akin Strategy Is Really Full of Mini Todd Akins – Elspeth Reeve – The Atlantic Wire

Akin potential: High. Rove warns that, “Georgia will have a big primary but should remain Republican unless a candidate ill-suited for the general election sneaks through the primary.”

Romney won Georgia by 8 points, a much smaller margin than in Montana and North Dakota. And Georgia’s primary promises to draw many colorful candidates.

They include Rep. Phil Gingrey (pictured at right), who said Akin was “partly right” about women’s bodies blocking rapist sperm: “We tell infertile couples all the time … ‘Don’t be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.’ So he was partially right, wasn’t he?” Former Rep. Ron Paul just endorsed Rep. Paul Broun, who called evolution “lies straight from the pit of hell.”

Rep. Jack Kingston entered the race by telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he “will yield no ground to any of my opponents as to who is the most conservative.”

via Karl Rove’s Anti-Akin Strategy Is Really Full of Mini Todd Akins – Elspeth Reeve – The Atlantic Wire.