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Akin vs Establishment GOP round 1: Akin
St. Louis Conservative Examiner ^ | August 22, 2012 | Doug Edelman

Posted on 08/22/2012 2:23:25 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll

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To: Delhi Rebels

“Romney’s race if Obama can use Akin’s remarks against him?”

It’s my understanding that Akin has apologized. However, the RNC apparently is pro-abort.

That said, Romney can throw back the ‘above my pay grade’ 0bama statement. And his record on willingness to butcher live babies and even support killing children, per Sunstein’s complete lives system....which includes people above certain age of contributions, too. Then, there’s the blue pill argument that reflects the European strategy of simply removing care and pain meds, allowing someone to die ‘of natural causes.’ That will go over well with people of any age that need treatment, given that there are already medicine shortages.

Are we or are we not a country that supports life? I don’t see a reason to give the Party of Death an inch on this.


41 posted on 08/22/2012 3:29:54 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Sybeck1

The GOP will pick up between 4 to 8 Senate seats this election WITHOUT MO. This is a waste of time and effort. Time for the Conservative/GOP movement to quit letting the Democrat propaganda machine divert and distract them with these non stories.

The dominate issue is still the Economy


42 posted on 08/22/2012 3:29:54 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Linda Frances

While I didn’t and couldn’t vote for Scott Brown I did stand with him to replace Kennedy. That said, ever since I’ve heard self righteous lip flapping about how we conservative “purists” need to compromise only to see the “moderates” we have supported turn around and screw us.

The reality is that moderates never have any intent of compromising with conservatives. They only compromise with their friends on the left. The sooner conservatives figure the lie out, the better.

Moderates are lying, manipulative, bottom feeding scum.


43 posted on 08/22/2012 3:32:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Uncle Chip

” You all just don’t want him in the Senate.”

No, its not that we do not want him in the Senate.It is that we do not want him RUNNING for the Senate because off the toxic fumes he is now throwing off for the rest of the national party through his stupidity.The damage is caused with his running over the next 10 weeks. No one is going to give him any campaign money except a few diehard evangelicals.No major politican, no conservative commentator, no one endorses him Yet the media and the national Dems will be pounding the national Republicans using Akin as the battering ram.


44 posted on 08/22/2012 3:34:39 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: combat_boots

I’d love to see that happen. I just don’t see how it does. If he were smart and agile enough to make it through the next couple of months to a win after this, he would have been smart and agile enough not to say what he did how he did in the first place.


45 posted on 08/22/2012 3:41:15 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: chuckee

“No, its not that we do not want him in the Senate.It is that we do not want him RUNNING for the Senate because off the toxic fumes he is now throwing off for the rest of the national party through his stupidity.”

Exactly! He will be gone in two weeks.


46 posted on 08/22/2012 3:45:34 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: Parley Baer
I think conservatives made a mistake when they started urging others or themselves bowing out of a race for some dumb thing they said. I think this really got going with the “makaka” comment made some years ago. It has created an atmosphere where a good candidate can be eliminated over one stupid gaffe.
47 posted on 08/22/2012 3:55:02 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Uncle Chip; beandog; Jacquerie

I would have voted for him last week, but not now. Not after seeing the way he handled the question, not after seeing the way he handled the controversy that followed.


48 posted on 08/22/2012 3:59:38 PM PDT by paudio (Akin shares one thing with Obama: Republicans of various stripes are against them)
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To: combat_boots

Sometimes I wonder about the folks here on Free Republic. Have you collectively lost your moral compass?

How is compounding one horrible crime (assault rape) with another (murdering an innocent little life) justifiable. And, I am a woman, a mother of four, with 2 daughters.

If a woman becomes pregnant because of an assault (legitimate) rape, she should receive all the counseling and support she needs, and it is her right to decide whether to keep the baby, or give it up for adoption.

A supported and admired right CAN make up for a horrible wrong. And, I am not opposed to the death penalty for the rapist. I consider that self-defense, not murder.

What has happened to you all. If I lived in Missouri, he would get my vote, even though he should have used the term “assault”, to distinguish this from “consensual”.

The only time I would support abortion is for a dire physical (not psychiatric) danger to the mother’s life. This kind of emergency, such as an ectopic pregnancy is very rare, fortunately.


49 posted on 08/22/2012 4:13:37 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: chuckee

So then the GOP establishment is willing to shoot itself in the foot and lose the Missouri Senate seat rather than support him and win it.


50 posted on 08/22/2012 4:14:27 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Delhi Rebels

The GOP will pick up between 4 to 8 Senate seats this election WITHOUT MO. This is a waste of time and effort. Time for the Conservative/GOP movement to quit letting the Democrat propaganda machine divert and distract them with these non stories.

The dominate issue is still the Economy


51 posted on 08/22/2012 4:16:53 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: paudio
I would have voted for him last week, but not now. Not after seeing the way he handled the question, not after seeing the way he handled the controversy that followed.

So then if the election were tomorrow you would be voting for McCaskill???

52 posted on 08/22/2012 4:18:19 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Propaganda are more powerful when they have a poster boy. Akin is now the poster boy for the liberal propaganda that the GOP is engaged in “War on Women”. He makes it easier for them as long as he is still a Republican candidate.


53 posted on 08/22/2012 4:19:31 PM PDT by paudio (Akin shares one thing with Obama: Republicans of various stripes are against them)
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To: combat_boots
What if he WINS?

Do you really think the dems will spend more money and cross over to vote for him like they did in the primary? He won only because of the support he got from the dems. He will not get that in the general.
54 posted on 08/22/2012 4:22:29 PM PDT by John D
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To: Uncle Chip

LOL... you are using Dhim’s method of demonizing people... nowhere did I state anything about voting for McCaskill, which, btw, at this moment—beyond some Freepers like you—is the main supporter of Akin. Together with the liberal media.


55 posted on 08/22/2012 4:25:07 PM PDT by paudio (Akin shares one thing with Obama: Republicans of various stripes are against them)
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To: MNJohnnie

I believe some Akin supporters are happy that the controversy might turn the election into about abortion in the case of rape, not the economy. For them, anything about anti abortion is the only thing that should matter in any election.


56 posted on 08/22/2012 4:28:16 PM PDT by paudio (Akin shares one thing with Obama: Republicans of various stripes are against them)
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To: chuckee

McCaskill did spend 1.5 million on the primary to engineer him to be her opponent.

"There’s a reason why Democrats spent over $1.5 million trying to help Akin win his three-way primary. He was the most conservative candidate in the field — and the most unpredictable one. He shook up his campaign staff late last year. He recently released a head-scratching and jumbled campaign ad. And Democrats have already launched a microsite highlighting his controversial statements that won’t play well with moderates. (“America has got the equivalent of the stage III cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in,” Akin once said.)"

When the twisted brain of a liberal views conservatives like us on FR, they see "crazy". They don't understand us and don't really want to. And, they assume everyone else views the world through red-tinted glasses just like theirs. They helped Akin because -- representing people like us -- they figured he was the only one in the bunch they stood a snowball's chance of defeating in 2012. They chose him, to beat him, because he is like us. And, for the exact same reason, the GOPe would like him beaten as well. Being too much like us, he will "interfere" with GOPe agenda. Akin is still going to win and, I confess, I will derive a degree of satisfaction as the Dem's plan backfires and a truly conservative representative joins the Senate.


57 posted on 08/22/2012 4:32:16 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: beandog; paudio
I’m sure the good people of MO are exceedingly grateful you do not live in their state. I know I would be.

I live in Missouri, and I echo that statement.

58 posted on 08/22/2012 4:33:40 PM PDT by Timmy
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To: Uncle Chip
The sky will not fall if Akin loses. So why the push to get him out???

Maybe because he is an idiot? Do we really need more idiots in the senate?
59 posted on 08/22/2012 4:34:17 PM PDT by John D
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To: paudio
nowhere did I state anything about voting for McCaskill

But you would not vote for Akin and in withholding a vote for him you would be tacitly voting for her. Right???

60 posted on 08/22/2012 4:35:56 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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