The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

Opinion

September 11, 2012

Your View: Open letter to Todd Akin

NEOSHO, Mo. — It’s time to stop apologizing and asking forgiveness for a simple statement of an outdated medical concept.

You didn’t condone rape, commit a crime or say anything immoral. There is nothing to forgive.

No matter how you would have answered that ambiguous question, the pro-choicers were just waiting to pounce and twist the meaning of your words so they could condemn you.

It’s amazing how those same liberals re-elect corrupt leaders who break their wedding vows, get drunk and drive off bridges, dally in the Oval Office, lie to the American people, or bow to foreign dictators.

Shame on all those conservative leaders and groups who were ready to abandon you when you were wounded on the battlefield fighting for them. Let’s see if any of them have character enough to apologize to you.

We nominated you because you have an outstanding voting record.

You have proven to be an honorable, patriotic, principled, God-fearing family man.

We believe you will have the courage to speak out against waste of our tax money, dependence on foreign oil, socialized medicine, compulsory union membership, illegal immigration, burdensome taxes and taxpayer-funded shedding of innocent blood of babies in (and out of) the womb.

We need you to expose Claire McCaskill’s liberal voting record and win her Senate seat. You have our support and prayers.

John and Elizabeth Willson

Neosho

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