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Todd Akin: When Dumb Talk Is Inevitable
Real Clear Politics ^ | August 21, 2012 | Debra Saunders

Posted on 08/21/2012 4:25:15 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

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To: 4Liberty
The is obviously NOT what he meant to say, although he is guilty of allowing himself to be misinterpreted. I suppose for conservative candidates that is a sin punishable by the death penalty, politically speaking.

As I said before we set impossibly high standards for our side, then we conservatives wonder why we can never win.

41 posted on 08/21/2012 6:00:21 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: paudio

No he hasn’t. You and people like you have.


42 posted on 08/21/2012 6:04:52 PM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

I invited my girlfriend to visit this evening. I said, come on over baby, there’s whole lotta Akin goin’ on!


43 posted on 08/21/2012 6:07:55 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: paudio

Which ones are up for grabs???


44 posted on 08/21/2012 6:10:03 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Longbow1969
We are talking about politics here.

We're talking about something far more important than politics. Frankly, the suggestion that abortion is just some backburner issue to be ignored (again) in light of such "pressing" issues as the expiration of certain tax breaks is disgusting.

If you think attacking a pro-life champion for an admittedly stupid comment is going to somehow render RINOs more endearing to either Conservatives, or the liberal media the mittarded ones so love, forget it.

When mitt opened his mouth today he lost the election.

45 posted on 08/21/2012 6:11:19 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil. Voting for mitt or obie is like throwing your country away.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

this article is complete crap


46 posted on 08/21/2012 6:14:23 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Uncle Chip

“The conservative Missouri state GOP legislative caucus is backing Akin 100% and telling the wimpy group of flip flopping old Senators and the GOP to grow a spine and stand up to these kinds of attacks from the Democrats or shut up.”

well they do have a point, same kind of garbage happened to Hank Jr. Media had a field day, twisted what he said and kaboom. they smell blood and the press is a bunch of sicko vammpires


47 posted on 08/21/2012 6:16:49 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: tbg681

you sure? sheesh you are so judgmental


48 posted on 08/21/2012 6:18:30 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Gene Eric

“this guy is getting crucified through baseless demagoguery.”

bingo
bingo
bingo


49 posted on 08/21/2012 6:19:30 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Uncle Chip
Steve Deace is sticking up hardcore for Akin on his radio show tonight. The Deace show just started airing here and it's a must-listen for any Freepers who understand the threat to moral conservatism that comes from Romney and his wing of the party.

Deace is saying anyone who's an enemy of Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney is a friend of his, meaning Todd Akin in this case. Deace's really interesting theory is that the GOP elites know Missouri is a conservative state who will elect a staunch conservative, so they are jumping at the chance to boot out Akin and replace him with a handpicked RINO. Deace is a staunch Christian conservative who is one of the biggest RINO hunters out there I've seen so far. Looks like you can listen live online...

http://stevedeace.com/

50 posted on 08/21/2012 6:22:35 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: Longbow1969

Listen Longbow, Christianity is about light and life. we are sacrificing babies, what kind of monsters does that make us?


51 posted on 08/21/2012 6:22:50 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: skeeter

His attempt to arrogantly lecture the audience through a TV reporter allowed him to choose contemptuous language to try and brush off the issue of abortion in instances of rape and incest. This is a complex issue a theology essay of five thousand words can barely address and he trys to dismiss it with anecdotal pseudo-science using creepy phrasing.

Intelligent candidates — hell, even candidates with low IQs — know the importance of staying on message and talking toward what the election is about for the voters.

But Akin was not focused on the broad conservative sea-change and fiscal responsibility to dump an agenda headed by a Marxist. Instead, he was focused on single-issue agenda points of the right-to-life groups and did so in a manner that caused good conservvatives, that hate Roe v. Wade and all it stands for, to smack their foreheads, declare “epic fail” and ask themselves how they can vote for someone this dumbly arrogant.


52 posted on 08/21/2012 6:23:38 PM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

“The single issue voters who are the problem are the ones who vote against the guy for the single issue that he said something stupid.”

amen


53 posted on 08/21/2012 6:24:54 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: KC Burke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c


54 posted on 08/21/2012 6:27:04 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: 4Liberty

“Akins is also implying women who miscarry “probably stopped that thing” subconsciously due to a desire to not have the child.”

Aw give it a rest, you are implying you are a self righteous know it all


55 posted on 08/21/2012 6:28:15 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: All

Let’s cut back on the personal stuff. This topic is raw enough as it is.


58 posted on 08/21/2012 6:33:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: JediJones

There are a lot of Missourians, Democrats included, that are pissed off enough at the national GOP for what they are doing to Akin that they will cross over and vote him in the general just to stick it to the GOP elitists knowing that Akin will stand up to them in Washington like he did here.


59 posted on 08/21/2012 6:35:12 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Callahan
Akin sounds like a guy who has spent alot of time living in an Evangelical Christian bubble

Better that than growing up in the dog-eating, prayer-calling lands of Muhammed that Obama did.

60 posted on 08/21/2012 6:39:16 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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