Akin vs Establishment GOP round 1: Akin
should be Dems and Akin vs Establishment GOP round 1:Dems and Akin
McCaskill did spend 1.5 million on the primary to engineer him to be her opponent. And has made statements he should stay in? The Dems want him rather than another pro lifer in because they know Akin can beat himself.McCaskill’s biggest weapon in this campaign is her opponent’s mouth. McCaskill can just take a vacation until November and pray Akin does not get laryngitis.
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.