Joan Walsh, Salon
I almost feel sorry for Todd Akin. Almost. He and his crazy, ultra-right ilk have been cultivated and flattered and milked for votes by Republican elites for more than 30 years, and then, when it comes to actual policy implementation, mostly abandoned by presidents going back to Ronald Reagan. Republican primary candidates make big promises to the Christian ultra-right; Republican presidents mostly break them.Now Mitt Romney is accelerating the process, disappointing his party’s far-right base before he’s even elected, by joining other establishment leaders in asking Akin...