There are certain subjects that you probably should just not talk about at a public breakfast if you are an elected official, especially if you are a Republican, and especially if your party just took a massive shellacking at the ballot box last November in part because of loose talk by some of the dimmer members of your party on the same subject.

That didn’t stop Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., when he was asked about Rep. Todd Akin’s now-notorious comments about women’s bodies being able to prevent pregnancy during rape during Thursday’s Cobb Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Smyrna Community Center. Let’s go to the tape, according to the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal: