Posted on 08/24/2012 5:46:30 AM PDT by C19fan
Sources say that GOP candidate Rep. Todd Akin will leave the Council for National Policy conference confident about his decision to stay in the Missouri Senate race. The conference hosts top conservatives annually, many of whom have encouraged Akin to continue in his bid against incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill. Not all have been supportive of the Congressman's bid, with several prominent attendees said to have privately encouraged him to step aside.
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This turkey will ride the Huckabee money right into hubristic martyrdom.
I’ve held back on making any comments pro or against for Akin. The overwhelming outcries against him have had the opposite effect on me. It’s made me more curious about the man and I find that I do support him staying in the race.
We need a fighter on the conservative side, if he had bowed to pressure and meekly gotten out that would have been best because it would have showed that he would be malleable once in office. But his fighting back has me now in his corner.
Sure he still might lose this race. But what if he wins and becomes a senator from Missouri? The man will have already demonstrated that he can handle being under fire from the press and the GOPe. And that is something I prize highly.
Glad he is staying. Time to fight back.
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Yes, indeed. Time to fight those silly conservatives & Republicans who want to ACTUALLY replace Claire McCasKill and take the US Senate back from the liberal Democrats and the Senate Republican leadership from the “moderates” such as McConnell.
Just remember, as Akin would say “It’s all about me!”.
Well, he was born in NYC.
When Huckabee calls me this weekend I will tell him the bank is closed. No money for this turkey. Not one red cent.
Recall Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords? We need all the seats we can get. And Republicans always seem to wander off the reservation at critical times...
If Romney doesn’t win, Ryan will not be in a position to do a thing.
“Is he still taking this position or did he deny it by saying it was a poor choice in wording, temporarily?”
Yes he did. But he shot himself in the head not the foot with that statement and no amount of apology and reinterpreting is going to resurrect him.The media and DNC will not allow it. He’s dead, Jim.
Looking at the names of the worthless people the republican establishment wanted to replace him with, Akin (though impolitic) is preferable.
If our goal is to get decent, virtuous men into office, then Akin rates well above who the establishment wants in the senate. If our goal is just to get men with ‘R’s next to their names, we’ll get more of the same.
The ideal is to get decent, virtuous men who are politically skilled. The hope is that Romney sweeps Akin into office in Missouri. He’ll be a solid conservative, free from any influence, and can be replaced in six years.
“......Sure he still might lose this race. But what if he wins and becomes a senator from Missouri? The man will have already demonstrated that he can handle being under fire from the press and the GOPe. And that is something I prize highly.”
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The more I think of it, you’re being very rational. And what if Fairy Dust actually works? I don’t have any; time to go out on the Internet and find some for my family.
And what if that email from that Nigerian is actually true? I need to immediately go to my bank and wire the “trust money” to the Nigerian. How foolish was I to think I was living in Realville before. Long live Fairy Dust, Wealth from Nigerian Investments and that heroic Senator from Missouri.
Have you read the Constitution lately???
Little matters where he was born. PCA types are stubborn regardless of birth place.
We could......
What he said was stupid no doubt..
But we need every seat there is. If he won’t step aside then I suggest the people of MO do what needs to be done and drag his butt across the finish line.
Will you rejoice in November when McCaskill is reelected? This fool is going to deprive a President Romney of a majority senate, prevent appointments of conservative supreme court justices and conceivably the election.
McCaskill is doing somersaults of pure ecstasy because this is the guy she wanted to run against.
They don’t call the Republicans the “Stupid Party” for nothing.
His Aunt was Catholic and chose life. I am glad the young woman was around and was not aborted, but that's not the point, I am pro-life. I was thinking at the time I heard about this how the young woman must feel about her father. On the one hand, her father was responsible for her existence yet he had violated the mother of this young woman by committing a crime. I am assuming he was never caught. I am wondering what she would say to him if she met him.
Yes and Paul Ryan is the Vice Presidential nominee. If Romney loses the presidency so will Ryan lose the vice-presidency and he will not be the president of the Senate. Biden still will be.
My apologies — I overlooked the word “doesn’t”. You are correct.
Also went to college in Taxachusetts...
But anyway, he’s probably toast short of a miracle.
How about for the cost of winning Missouri altogether?
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