“I felt sort of peaceful, as though I was in a parachute. I sort of felt that on each side of me were these towering cumulus clouds. On the one side lightning and thunder of evil and the other side brilliant light of good and I sort of felt like I was literally on the front lines and evil and good were going at it all around me and I’m thinking, ‘how did I get here so fast?”
— Former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), in an interview with David Brody, on the firestorm that erupted after he uttered the words “legitimate rape” during his 2012 Senate campaign.
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