Officially designated hate group supports Todd "forcible rape" Akin

 

His only defender is an officially-designate hate group. Any questions?

The Family Research Reptile Council offered strong support for Todd Akin on Monday afternoon.

“This is an effort to try to direct attention away from … Claire McCaskill, who has been supportive of Planned Parenthood — an organization that’s been under investigation for criminal activity,” FRC President Tony Perkins said in between meetings of the rnc platform committee.

Speaking of "under investigation," the FEC investigated and fined a campaign run by Perkins for hiding a payment to former Klansman David Duke. From the Nation:

Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the council of conservative citizens wingnut lunatics (CCC), America's premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the white citizens wingnuts councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

If the FRC wants to play "guilt by investigation," then let's.

So, the entire repugican party is up in arms of Akin's comments, and the FRC publicly weighs in on Akin's behalf.  Real pulse of the nation, FRC has.  Let's hope the repugican party takes all of their advice all the way to election day.  And in fact, it seems they are.  The repugican party let the FRC write the anti-gay language for the repugican party platform.  The language also includes, of course, a swipe at judges - you'll recall that repugican party attacks on judges in the past caused Sandra Day O'Connor to admonish repugicans for possibly inciting violence.

There really is no limit to how extreme the repugican party has become.