As for Akin: Some Republicans did distance themselves over the rape comment, but not all Republicans did. And of the ones who did (1) it was more over the timing (this was just before the deadline for him to withdraw from his current race, MO-Senate, which he had been expected to win) than the content of what he said and (2) they came back after Akin chose to remain in the race. At least, that was how I recall the coverage (try searching the Talking Points Memo archives for stories on Akin).

Try not to act like a spoiled little 5 year old. “But little Johnny did it too!’

It doesn’t matter if there are certifiable democrats out there – no-one would argue with that. Mind you, some of the ‘criticisms’ at your second link are crazy in themselves. So what if Dennis Kucinich had (or has) ties to the Communist Party? Last time I checked, the USA was a free country and anyone could hold whatever political views they liked. Or do you disagree with that particular aspect of the constitution?

The issue here is the racist and bat shit crazy statements of these two idiots. Why can’t you act with a modicum of maturity, and condemn them for what they are, rather than stamping your foot and trying to deflect criticism onto someone else?

Well, let’s go with the whole distancing thing mentioned in other comments. Just one example – you saw it immediately to statements by Akin. What, you didn’t see it? Willful evasion, then, because everyone else did. Or perhaps you didn’t see the distancing from Akin’s statement that breast milk cures homosexuality, as described in this Daily Kos article I’m looking at here (do you own googling.) Oh, but wait … that was one of the many hoaxes invented by and perpetuated by liberals. Darn. Well, it’s the truthiness that counts, right? We can still count those as statements by Republicans, because it’s the kind of thing they _could_ have said.

By the way, I’m not a Republican. Just someone with open eyes, an active mind, and a habit of evaluating ALL of reality, not just the convenient parts. Try it sometime.

Yes of course there are “idiot” liberals and Dems. I would certainly not say otherwise (face it there are plain and simply dumb people everywhere). But this pretense of equivalency is simply not empirically supported (there’s another strange new word for Republicans: empirical).

But good God, you’d have to be blind to have not seen by now that there has to be idiot backward statements at a rate of 20 to 1 betwen Dems and Republicans respectively.

Even a list of the really biggies is far too long to go into but among them: “put an aspirin between your legs to stop pregnancy, legitimate rape, evolution and global warming as socialist globalist conspiracies, 80 congressional democrats as members of the communist party, state department infested with the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama as foreign born…

The anti-scientist, anti-Enlightenment, anti-modernist, xenophobic brains falling out on the floor Republican party has simply become the Bizarro Universe of our time.

Oh God the list goes on and on and on and on and on.

I dare anyone give me a list of comments this stupid that is a fraction of the length of those now found in the Republican party. They just aren’t there.