Why is Todd Akin still talking?

Todd Akin has put his foot in his mouth again. And this time he's not apologizing.

At a recent campaign rally in Springfield, Missouri, Akin made comments about his opponent Claire McCaskill: 

“She goes to Washington, D.C. It’s a little bit like one of those dogs, 'fetch'...she goes to Washington, D.C., and gets all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri.”

He continued (edging his foot into mouth) by saying, 

“It seems to me that she’s got it just backwards. What we should be doing is taking the common sense we see in Missouri and taking that to Washington, D.C., and blessing them with more solutions instead of more problems.”

You can capture this priceless moment here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4f7-rNMVE&feature=player_embedded

For those of you who don't know or don't remember or perhaps, tried desperately to forget, Akin is the Republican Senate candidate who believes the female body has some magical defense against rape-sperm. His remarks are just too precious, so below is the actual excerpt for all of you to enjoy once again:

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."

You know there's something wrong with the world when you have politicians like this one running around with an apparent lack of basic medical knowledge and insulting their opponents in one of the worst possible, degrading ways. Todd Akin - why are you still talking?