I won't deny that some of my countrymen are incredibly stupid. Some of the things said are incredibly stupid. With that said, while I'm not myself very religious, I'd like to paraphrase Jesus...
"Let he/she who has never said anything incredibly stupid throw the first stone."
As for me, I didn't realize that I was pronouncing "verbatim" incorrectly (and badly so) until the ripe age of 23. And I've said more embarrassing things before, which I won't go into now. Suffice it to say that sometimes I get caught stating the extremely obvious, especially when fatigued.
I'm not making any attempt to defend the statements made over the past few days concerning rape and babies. It was a dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumbdumbdumbdumb thing to say, and the people trying to defend his statement need to STOP.
What I AM saying is that when you spend decades in the public eye it's hard to not slip up and say something retarded on occasion. When you say something intelligent it doesn't sell papers... only the truly moronic things you say will garner this level of attention.
And I'll also point out that the moment this guy put his foot in his mouth on camera, he suddenly discovered exactly how many friends he really had. Very, very few... probably including his family.
tl;dr? People are judgmental, and the instant the public judges you, you will lose your political friends.
