1. Very few people outside Missouri knew who Todd Akin was before this weekend, or still would if he were moderately coherent. And that includes the “eeeeevil GOP Establishment and the liberal media”, let alone the rank-and-file. In fact, go outside his district and I think finding people inside Missouri who knew who he was would have been a dodgy proposition. The only thing people know about Todd Akin is he said something really dumb, of the kind of dumb that the Democrats and the actual liberal media really love to hear from Republicans and use to make other Republicans and conservatives, politicians, staffers, media folk and rank-and-filers alike miserable, especially during election campaigns. Which the Dems and the actual liberal media are in fact doing right now with more relish than a Chicago dog. And entirely unsurprisingly, the guys on our side are extremely unhappy with Akin because of it. In short it’s not personal, it’s business.
2. If you want the “eeeeevil GOP Establishment and liberal media” to move on from this and give Todd a fair chance to run his race and discuss the issues, it might be at least minimally helpful in that regard to stop waving studies around and saying “He was right! He was right! See? See?” and talk about something else.
3. If we’re now trying to stretch the terms “GOP Establishment” and “liberal media” far enough to include Sarah Palin, those terms have become entirely meaningless.
Then where are the "businessmen" telling Romney to show us his tax returns now before they come out the week before the election and something horrible in them makes it into the media?
it might be at least minimally helpful in that regard to stop waving studies around and saying “He was right! He was right! See? See?” and talk about something else.
It helps to see that there was some basis and background for his statements, even if they weren't 100% correct.
If we’re now trying to stretch the terms “GOP Establishment” and “liberal media” far enough to include Sarah Palin, those terms have become entirely meaningless.
Palin is making herself meaningless by suggesting a third party run, a goofy strategy almost guaranteed to lose the seat. Unless there was some beloved, longtime Missouri superstar with massive name recognition, a 3rd party can't win the seat.