Five Things Everyone Should Know About GOP Senate Candidate Todd Akin

Rep. Todd Akin, R-MO.

By Zack Beauchamp on Aug 8, 2012 at 8:41 am

On Tuesday night, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) wrapped up his state’s Republican Senate nomination, defeating two other Tea Party Republicans in a race that split the GOP’s hard right faction. Akin’s highest profile backers were former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), which should be no surprise — Akin has a long history of taking inflammatory, extremist positions, particularly with respect to religion and equal rights for gays and lesbians:

1. Akin believes Medicare is unconstitutional.

2. Akin said that “the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God.”

3. Akin is one of the most anti-gay GOP members of the House.

4. Akin called recent legislation streamlining the student loan process a “state three cancer of socialism.”

5. Akin wants the United States to withdraw from the UN.

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Scientists: UN Soldiers Brought Deadly Superbug to Americas

--Haiti had never seen a case of cholera until the arrival of UN peacekeepers. 

 12 Jan 2012 Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations 'peacekeepers' have carried a virulent strain of cholera -- a super bug -- into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010. Leading researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere told ABC News that, despite UN denials, there is now a mountain of evidence suggesting the strain originated in Nepal, and was carried to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers who came to Haiti to serve as UN peacekeepers after the earthquake that ravaged the country on Jan. 12, 2010 -- two years ago today.  READ MORE