meaningless. >> ryan's pac gave mourdock's campaign a $5,000 boost during this election cycle. so far, romney and ryan are ignoring the mourdock controversy. but some republicans are running away from mourdock. senator scott brown of massachusetts is disavowing mourdock's comments. senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire canceled, canceled plans to campaign with mourdock just today. yet the gop leadership, well, they continue to embrace mourdock and his controversial stance. chairman of the national republican senatorial committee, john cornyn, called the outrage over mourdock's comments "irresponsible and ridiculous." while senate minority leader mitch mcconnell blamed democrats. we're at the end of an election season here, and i understand each side is looking to make hay out of every comment, but sharing the views of millions of americans that life begins at conception is richard's deeply held personal belief that shouldn't be misconstrued by