[jboot]

If needs be, no one. We lose the seat either way, and with Akin gone there will be less risk of losing nationally or hurting the downticket races.

Of course, if you are hot to teach the Republican party a lesson and don't care about getting four more years of Obama and a Democratic Senate, then that argument doesn't hold much water.

[Uncle Chip]

If needs be, no one. We lose the seat either way, and with Akin gone there will be less risk of losing nationally or hurting the downticket races.

Ohh -- so that is what this is all about. And the people in Missouri thought that this was all about getting rid of McCaskill.

People in Missouri cross over all the time, and there will be a whole lot of it this time as well.