257 posted on Thu Aug 23 2012 11:12:41 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by chris37: “I can see the writing on the wall just fine. Republicans will not defend their own, and democrats can take out anyone they want, anytime they want by pushing cowardly republicans to do so for them. So, who’s next?”
I think so_real is right about a double standard, and chris37 is right about the potential consequences if Democrats figure out they can force Republicans out of races when a Democrat doing something similar would be supported by their own party. Look at all the feminists who swallowed hard and decided backing Bill Clinton was more important than defending an obviously manipulated intern.
My concern is this: we as conservatives say we are frustrated when the Republican leadership pushes RINOs on us. Now we have a strong social issues conservative who has a long track record of taking conservative positions in the state legislature and in Congress. Not only that, he clearly believes what he says, and isn't just talking the talk; he is himself a veteran, has several sons in the military, and has a strong track record on social, economic, and national defense conservative issues.
Now he said something really, really stupid, and the Republican leadership wants him to withdraw.
So we're going to fold our cards and go home and let the Republican establishment nominate a candidate who will probably be weak on social issues and may also be weak on economic and national defense issues? Show me that Tea Party fiery conservatives would put up with this if the national GOP tried this with somebody who wasn't a social issues conservative.
It wouldn't happen. Secular conservatives would be saying not only “No!” but adding some four letter words and lots of exclamation points to their “No!”
252 posted on Thu Aug 23 2012 11:03:05 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by soycd: “An even bigger LOL would be taking the whole GOP ticket down with this akin traitor. Anyone not trying to get akin out now is working for the democrat party.”
That is neither accurate nor fair.
What is both accurate and fair is that the lack of conservative support for Akin could easily become a self-fulfilling prediction.
I spent some time today with our county's local Republican political leadership who, somewhat to my surprise, tell me that most Republicans they talk to want Akin to withdraw.
I live in Missouri, my county which voted overwhelmingly for Santorum, and we have a strong social conservative presence in our local Republican leadership. These aren't RINOs or even moderate Republicans — the concern is that Akin has been so badly damaged that he can't recover.
I need to listen to that, and if the polls and fundraising numbers don't change quickly, Akin needs to be listening too.
THAT was mistake number one. Santorum gave us Romney. I stayed away from Santorum knowing that he had previously endorsed Romney claiming that Mittens was "a real conservative".
I never even thought of voting for Santorum because most knew he was only in it to split the conservative vote to enable Romney to win the nomination.
Will Akin give us McCaskill like Santorum gave us Romney and Huckabee gave us McCain?
Only time will tell.
No problem... speaking for myself, I`ve moved on... much as it would be far better to have a competitive candidate to take on McCaskill, Akin refuses to see reality and quit.
So, time to donate and encourage the money guys to direct funding toward candidates who have a real shot of winning.
It does no good to wring hands or devote another minute of energy to worrying over this clown when other, more viable candidates are out there. Akin won the primary and wants to have some fun campaigning, so why not? He has second place clinched. Yay for him.
and who would replace him???
re: I spent some time today with our county’s local Republican political leadership who, somewhat to my surprise, tell me that most Republicans they talk to want Akin to withdraw.
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Thanks for your insight and info.
You have FReepmail.
The media double standard is a pervasive long term problem that’s not gonna be solved by this November. I don’t know how to solve it.
The immediate crisis is 6 more years of Senator McCrapskull.
There is no reason why the replacement would not be a conservative.