Akin is an outsider. He is too conservative for the GOP, e.g., his 97.24 lifetime ACU rating and his votes against TARP, No-child left behind, the Prescription Drug Program, McCain-Feingold, and other GOPe pushed bills. Within 24 hours after making his verbal gaffe (including an apology), the GOP disowned him. The RNC announced it was cutting off all funding to him, disinviting him from the convention, and asking him to withdraw. Romney and Ryan joined in the orchestrated outrage within the GOP pressuring Akin to withdraw including conservative talk radio, George "Macacca" Allen, and many MO leading Reps. Just last week Priebus announced that not a dime would go to Akin, who is on the same ticket with Romney and Ryan.
The GOP was very unhappy that Akin won the tough, bruising MO primary. Akin's verbal gaffe was a pretext to force him out. It didn't work and now the GOP is faced with the consequences. They could have handled it much better, but chose to humiliate publicly a fellow colleauge who served 24 years in elective office at the state and federal level. They don't call the GOP the Stupid Party for nothing.
Take your Akin kool aid somewhere else. You shame conservatives by supporting this clown. There were two far superior conservatives in the race, and I mean far superior true conservatives.
Akin comes off as an idiot and he is bunker mentality arrogant and he won the primary with Dem cross over votes and too stupid to realize it.
I’m no fan of the GOPe by any means, have written about them for years in very unflattering terms. But Akin is a joke. I hope he beats McCaskill, but he is still an embarrassment. Again, take your Akin kool aid elsewhere.