Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Todd Akin rape and pregnancy controversy
classic . It is possible this drama will develop into a game changing ruckus and then snowball into a politics and culture/paradigm changing event. It's possible it will eventually meet our criteria for  (gaffs by public figures in elections happen often, it's routine). But at the moment it's just a slip by a politician who said something unbelievably stupid, and is being badly burned for it in the media and may lose his career, and perhaps some ripples to his party or pro-life/pro-choice issues, or science/religion debate - or perhaps not. But right now all those are speculative, we don't have any evidence this will be less transient, more enduring, or have broader impact in its own right, compared to any other career-killing gaff. If the game changes then in a year or so, we can recreate
— user:FT2, 16:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:CRYSTAL||WP:EVENT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)