"quickhits:  Todd Akin's wife's as dumb as he is.  Talking Points Memo: 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. Akin's wife isn't the first one to compare Akin's explosive rape comments, and the ensuing fallout, to rape: Bryan Fischer said the party's treatment of the embattled candidate had made Akin ""a victim of forcible assault."" Lulli Akin made the charge in a new National Journal profile, which reveals a family affair of a campaign — Akin's campaign manager is his son, and Lulli is also a key player.  NJ quotes her:  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?""  These people apparently have rape on the brain."
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