Posted on 09/15/2012 10:03:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Embattled Missouri GOP Senate nominee Todd Akin took aim at Haley Barbour Friday, accusing the former Mississippi Republican governor of “trying to advance his own personal brand” at Akin’s expense.
In a fundraising email, the Missouri congressman referred to Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, as “the Godfather of DC Party Bosses” and a “mega-lobbyist for the special interests” after Barbour criticized Akin and called on him to drop out of the race earlier this week in a web video.
The sharp pushback against Barbour is part of Akin’s two-front Senate campaign, one against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, and another against the “party bosses” he says are trying to keep him down.
Akin has also gone after Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, and RNC chair Reince Priebus, in an online fundraising pitch that features their photos and reads, “Tell DC Party bosses to stop treating Missourians like pawns in their game.”
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“Is there a similar deadline for Mittens to pull out? I am looking forward to a limited g’ment type on the Republican ticket.”
There hasn’t been one at the top of the ticket since 1984.
Akin is an idiot and we are going to lose this seat because of him. That means 6 more years of an Obama supporting liberal Democrat in a state we should be winning.
There are plenty of pro-life conservatives who could step in and win this seat against McCaskill. Instead Akin puts his ego above the very pro-life movement he claims to champion.
Akin made boneheaded comments he can’t recover from and the GOP can’t defend. He needs to go. If he won’t, Claire retains the seat. Simple as that.
Friend,
Party boss and Washington insider John Cornyn this week had two words for Todd Akin, and Missouri: “We’re done.”
Rather than swallowing their pride and admitting they were wrong to not help Todd Akin, Party Bosses are doubling down.
Mike Huckabee, on the other hand, had this to say about the Washington Party Bosses:
“They will turn their backs on Akin out of their arrogant pride because just as they were wrong about Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, they are being shown they are wrong on Akin? We need to rally every pro-life, pro-family, faith-based voter in America and tell them that the party obviously doesn't need them, but Akin does. If the party doesn't want us, then it's good to get that cleared up. I'll direct my time, money, and efforts toward candidates who will take a stand, and when they get elected, they won't be obligated to party bosses, but to God and their conscience.”
Today is the final day of our most ambitious fundraising goal yet: $70,000 raised by tonight at midnight to defeat the “$7 Trillion Dollar Senator” Claire McCaskill.
Time to get that LaserEye fixed. Conservatives are NOT Republicans. In a two party system, the Republican party often offers up the least objectionable option. Often there is no difference between a Republican or a Democrat. - I offer you the option of Bush vs. Clinton. Both of these two gentlemen stand for very large G’ment and no freedom for you and me.
For details refer to the TSA at you nearby airport
Karl Rove’s PAC was giving Akin millions before he blew it. Akin is 100% a product of the GOP establishment and Huckabee, the hero of the left.
Actually it is the 'Republican establishment' that has the fixation to destroy 'conservatives'... President Bush made that activity loud and clear when he ran for office in 2000 branding a new voice called 'compassionate' conservatism. His intended 'compassion' was to legalized millions of invaders. And what did he call US that were opposed to his advances? President Bush's claim to fame was how well and often he compromised with liberals in Texas, and that is exactly what he did as president. He turned over domestic policy to the tax and spend liberals, while holding on to a tax policy that kept us afloat and beginning to thrive until the sodomites outed the GOP-e- little boy chaser Foley.
“Akin made boneheaded comments he can’t recover from and the GOP can’t defend. He needs to go. If he won’t, Claire retains the seat. Simple as that.”
That is the whole ball of wax. But I don’t see any indication Akin is seeing the handwriting on the wall. So 6 more years of McCaskill.
How much money did Rove actually give to the Akin campaign? I want literal evidence of that claimed amount. Actually, Akin was a thorn in the side of the Bush administration during a spending action that Akin could not be bought or bribed. I think it was the prescription druggie thing.
Oh, let me be clear here, I will vote for Akin IF he is still on the ballot, but he did bring this upon himself. He invited this 'trouble' but so long as he is the candidate then I have no choice but to support him. BUT these high-minded GOP-e- are as responsible for the state of this nation's affairs as the liberals they bed down with after the lights go out.
“Today is the final day of our most ambitious fundraising goal yet: $70,000 raised by tonight at midnight to defeat the “$7 Trillion Dollar Senator” Claire McCaskill.”
$70,000, and McCaskill has 12 million. That is all you need to know about this race.
Well said!
What??? I don't recall him leaving his borough and seeing his shadow. That's not til September 25th.
LLS
Hey people, remember Reagan’s eleventh commandment!
We have to stop this republican circular firing squad!
Thinking Akin a liability isn't the same as helping Planned Parenthood or voting for Charlie Crist. Not wanting to give Lugar the "heave-ho" isn't the same as voting for Weicker's independent candidacy.
(Did any real Republicans do that? Or was it independents and people without real party ties who elected him? If they did were they vindicated when Rowland was elected, then indicted?)
Are people who want compromise on social issues really adamant about trade policy and tax brackets? And really, can we finally accept that while Cheney may have a degree from Wyoming, but he was, like Bush, a Yale man through and through? No common man he.
The folks who would rather be a permanent but privileged minority than yield power and position to real conservatives. In many states (e.g. Illinois, NY, CA), they are happy to be junior partners in De Covilla's "ruling class".
That cuts both ways, though. Push all those people out and the GOP or conservatives will be a permanent minority as well, with its leaders in a privileged minority status.
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Yeah!
Missouri should have let you and Tokyo Rove decide who our candidate should be!
Yeah!
Missouri should have let you and Tokyo Rove decide who our candidate should be!
Is money the qualification for supporting candidates???
If so, then will you want the GOP to nominate Hillary next time? She can certainly outraise most conservative candidates. Maybe the GOP should nominate uberleftist Senator Richard Blumenthal (third wealthiest in all of Congress) of Connecticut in 2016 for POTUS. After all, he is unquestionably rich and that would make him best qualified unless John (did you know he served in Vietnam?) Windsurfer Kerry would like to bring that Heinz Ketchup fortune back into play.
The ability to satisfy the corrupt demands of plutocrats eager to line Muffy's trust fund with taxpayer money and to allow (because it is allegedly none of the government's business) space aliens to copulate with household pets in public or twelvesomes or mandatory funding of abortion through "insurance premiums" which are actually NEW TAXES as SCOTUS recently ruled or a cornucopia of other abominations----- is not a measure of desirability as a candidate.
I had little interest in Todd Akin BEFORE he was nominated in a three way primary with two other conservatives. My order of preference would have been Sarah Steelman, John (?) Brunner and then Akin. He won that primary fair and square. He IS the GOP nominee. It ill behooves those who, like Karl Rove and Haley Barbour and John Cornyn, have never displayed a principle in their elitist careers and tell conservatives that Romney is this fall's nominee whether WE like it or not, to be publicly undermining Akin and chewing on his ankles, and impeding him as best they can, and cutting off party funding.
The trash who are undermining Akin won't be satisfied until the GOP Senate caucus is wall-to-wall unprincipled trash like themselves or the soon to be departed Olympia Snowe, or Susan Collins, Bob Corker, LAMAR!!! Alexander, Saxby Chambliss, Johnny Isakson, and the unlamented John Warner, Lowell Weicker, and impudent elitists in other offices like Christy Todd (It's My Party, Too!) Whitman. Making the GOP Senate Caucus safe for baby-killing, rump-ranging posing as "marriage," gun grabbing and padding Muffy's trust fund is certainly NOT the objective of an overwhelming majority of GOP voters. Substituting megabucks from corrupt interests for conservatism is essentially a social crime within the GOP. We need ground war more than air war and you cannot buy ground war.
Note that the GOP Establishment express little or no interest in naming Sarah Steelman (Sarah Palin's candidate) or John Brunner (Missouri Right to Life's candidate and a successful businessman) but rather, they have suggested recycling GOP-Establishment figures like former Senator John Danforth (R-Purina Dog Chow) who has become a vociferous critic of conservative GOP voters and their candidates or Kit Bond who had a modestly conservative record but was always most at home in the GOP-E. Why not Jim Talent whose poor performance led to McCaskill's election in the first place? How about someone with a name like Percival Worthington 32nd??? The slogan could be: "The world should be run by those who own it!"
Fortunately, Todd Akin has stood against the tide of the spoiled and witless and corrupt who have substituted their judgment for that of Missouri GOP primary voters. If that stand does not succeed in toppling McCaskill, then blame the fastidious, intellectually sterile GOP-E and their exaggerated upper class sensibilities and manners and their horror over Todd Akin for the loss.
Did I read here that Akin voted AGAINST raising Obozo's allowance by voting AGAINST an increase in the debt limit? Is that the lurking issue that caused the federal money dependent GOP-E to pounce on Akin at the first opportunity???
There is NO single Senate election result that could better signal an impending revolt against the power of corrupt money in the GOP than Todd Akin DEFEATING Claire McCaskill (and implicitly Haley Barbour, John Cornyn, Reince Priebus and their ilk who are shamelessly rooting for her since Akin doesn't play polo). Todd Akin has a set of enemies in the GOP that can make an excellent reputation for the man among the rank and file.
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