No, Akin loses 9 for talking like a smacked ass.
if the dumb pubs would not have made such a big deal about this, it would be over.
the rats are smart enough to circle their wagons around an individual and deflect the criticism, remember clintoon? biden?
so the guy made a gaffe, we made it bigger than it should have been.
He misspoke? worked for hillary, that could not remember anything.
why do we use a different playbook? play by the rat’s rules.
Blessings, bobo
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Now that the worst is over, it's time for the GOP superpacs to begin their anti-McCaskill attack adds. Right now her Luftwaffe controls the air waves since the GOP has grounded Akin. If they wait much longer the war will be lost. The ball is in their court.
It is just reality. Painful, but reality...
Disingenous ... that’s not why he is down 9.
You can be 400% pro-Life and still hurt the cause.
The way I see it the Missouri GOP has only three choices. Find a candidate that could have more immediate support from those voters who have already elected Akin (probably impossible). Unabashedly support Akin. Or hang up on the election.
The GOP and their array of vastly overpaid but wishy-washy pundits (as I have stated several times previously) have already weakened Akin with their demand for him to step down. The reality is that Americans and the media have only a 24 hour attention span. This would have blown over had they kept their mouth shut.
People make mistakes and it shouldn’t be the end of the world when they do.
After FORTY YEARS of questions about hard cases—rape, incest, so-called “life of the mother” (that one really is a fraud)—any candidate who stumbles over those questions doesn’t deserve to win.
These questions about hard cases should all be answered with a question: “What crime has the baby committed?”
That question all by itself should be the answer of any pro-life candidate. And if the pro-abortion activist (i.e., “journalist”) refuses to answer, just ask the question again: “What crime has the baby committed?”
The problem with what Akin said about rape is this: He said if a woman is “legitimately raped” (i.e., “really raped”) her body would “shut that down” and she wouldn’t get pregnant. By extension, he implied that if a woman gets pregnant as a result of rape, either it wasn’t really rape or the pregnancy is HER fault because her body didn’t reject it. That is both absurd and offensive.
I doubt he intended to imply what he did. I think he was trying to make the point that pregnancy as a result of rape is very rare. Statistics back him up. Still, it does happen. Should a woman should be forced to carry that pregnancy to term? I would hope that she would. Rape is never the baby’s fault.
The issue has blown up far beyond the original statement. but in politics, it’s not what you say or do, it’s what your enemies can make of it. And if you’re a conservative, your foes automatically include the media.
