The Republican Party was suppose to be a party of conviction that believed in family,the sanctity of life and small government and a party that did not believe in science,etc.

Recently the republicans disavowed todd Akin of Missouri,who had concluded from some junk-science article he read that a woman could not get pregnant if she were raped.ALL of the Republicans asked him to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri because they thought what he said was repulsive.

As a Democrat who believes in a woman's right to choose,this is confusing to me because this is the way Republicans think.This is important because the Republicans want to disguse how they feel about women and women's rights.hoping that the American electorate wouldn't see this.

Why would Paul Ryan,the Republican VP candidate,suddenly have a change of heart and say that rape is rape,when he co-sponsored a bill with Akin that allowed abortions only in cases of "forcible rape"? Why did he call for Akin to drop out of the race in Missouri while he himself is running as VP?

If there were a distinction between the parties,it couldn't have been clearer this week.NOW the truth IS OUT,and we know without a doubt that the Republicans ARE INDEED waging this battle against women AND minorities but do not want to acknowledge THIS FACT.

Can ANYBODY tell me WHY women,gays,lesbians and other minority groups that ARE constantly shunned by the Republicans vote for this party?It does not make ANY SENSE to me when people vote against their own best interests.

The Republican idology is so EXTREME that they KNOW they can't win elections with such ideologies,so they are NOW suppressing votes in a number of states.