Oh, I am appalled! But wait ... er ... I believe the same thing too ...

Paul Ryan’s ‘legitimate problem’

By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Wednesday, August 22, 6:40 PM

When Todd Akin sneezes, Paul Ryan catches a cold.

The Republicans’ soon-to-be nominee for vice president is supposed to be delivering a message about jobs and the economy, but he’s finding he cannot escape his longtime House colleague, now a national pariah for his exotic views on rape.

“His statements were outrageous, over the pale. I don’t know anybody who would agree with that. Rape is rape, period, end of story,” Ryan told Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV in the first in a series of local TV interviews.

Except it wasn’t the end of the story. The questions were just beginning.

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More problematic in this situation: Ryan has the same antiabortion position as Akin — no exceptions — and some of the nearly 40 abortion bills he has co-sponsored have provided no exemption for rape victims.

(More here.)