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In Search of the Perfect Candidate
Mark Levin show ^

Posted on 08/25/2012 9:12:34 AM PDT by A'elian' nation

Akin has got to drop out. His Luddite ideas are an embarrassment. Get him off the ballot so that the Missouri GOP can pick a better candidate than the voters of the state. This mad headless chicken scurrying, firing squad panicking has got to stop. I got a better idea. Let Akin make the Keynote speech at the Republican convention to counter the Keynote rapist at the Democrat convention.

Let's say Akin drops out and sacrifices himself to the cause of capturing the Senate for the GOP. Who is this flawless, perfect candidate that's going to replace him? How do we know he or she won't say something equally stupid or worse the next day? Maybe Akin is staying in, because he knows the candidates he defeated have skeletons in their closets that are bound to come out.

I'd like to challenge Mark Levin. As much as I love the guy, he is going off the deep end with his anti-Akins drivel. Ok, Mark, I got the perfect candidate for you. I want to know if you would support him come hell or high water. This candidate is even a close personal friend of yours and a famous Missourian to boot. He's just been elevated to the Missouri Hall of Fame. He has been in the forefront of conservatism for 25 years. Known as the Godfather of the GOP. Yes, Rush Limbaugh.

Let's imagine Rush taking Akin's place. Rush; the perfect conservative candidate, right? But Mark, I want to know, will you still hang with him when the ex-girl friends come out and the doctor shopping and the Fluck slut stuff starts being rehashed? Will you? Or are you going to freak out and insist he drop out for the sake of the country? Or are you going to hang with your good buddy who expounds the conservative message?

Rush is always instructing us by using the absurd to counter the absurd. Ditto in this piece.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: akins; gop; missouri; senate
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To: justiceseeker93

Yes. I agree with you.

Yet, Hillary and Biden can talk as if they are wearing Blackface in a Minstrel Show, and they get away with it.

Go Figure.


21 posted on 08/25/2012 1:03:02 PM PDT by left that other site (Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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To: justiceseeker93

There have been more women voters than men voters since 1964, and women register and vote at a higher percentage than men.

Men were taught to be self-reliant. Women were taught to be dependent on men, and, since the Great Society, on the government.


22 posted on 08/25/2012 2:25:45 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; Bryan; Eleutheria5; All
Many moderate women we were counting on to remove Claire Frightwig from office are no longer going to be counted in the GOP column.

Now they are the dumb ones I was talking about, those that would change their vote on a largely irrelevant and trivial matter. Were any of them thinking that they might want an abortion or might get raped? And even if they did, abortion law is largely a state matter (within the paramaters of Roe V. Wade) over which a US Senator is likely to exercise little influence.

23 posted on 08/25/2012 3:29:27 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
Although I no longer live in MO, my greatest fear about Akin's refusal to leave the race will be the constant 24x7 hammering by the ministry of propaganda will depress the republican vote, discouraging a lot of people from voting at all, and it might be enough to reelect McCaskil AND swing MO to Obama - Remember, MO just BARELY voted for McCain the last time.

Mark

24 posted on 08/25/2012 3:31:19 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: justiceseeker93

Is Frightwig her real last name, or did Charles Dickens dream it up?


25 posted on 08/25/2012 3:34:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Charles Dickens, at your service, sir...


26 posted on 08/25/2012 4:43:12 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: jjotto; Eric in the Ozarks; Bryan; All
Women were taught to be dependent on men, and, since the Great Society, on the government.

Women voters had been skewing politics toward more government largesse long before the "Great Society," in fact even before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified c. 1920.

I saw a study that evaluated state spending data from the period just before the Nineteenth Amendment. States that allowed women's suffrage had significantly greater increases in state spending in the years immediately following the start of women voting, when compared to states that did not allow women's suffrage in a comparable time frame. Conclusion: Women in general supported more government spending than men and put more pressure on government in that direction.

That pattern continued at the federal level, but with a lag period. Harding and Coolidge, the first two presidents elected with a significant number of female voters, were fiscal conservatives. But then came Hoover, who introduced some new government programs, followed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who could be viewed as "Hoover on steroids" in terms of government expansion.

27 posted on 08/25/2012 4:52:12 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: MarkL
Although I no longer live in MO, my greatest fear about Akin's refusal to leave the race will be the constant 24x7 hammering by the ministry of propaganda will depress the republican vote, discouraging a lot of people from voting at all, and it might be enough to reelect McCaskil AND swing MO to Obama - Remember, MO just BARELY voted for McCain the last time.

If the "ministry of propaganda" has as much clout as you fear, things are even worse than I thought.

Hard to see how the flap over Akin could depress Republican voter turnout in MO in a presidential election year in which Republicans own a significant advantage in the enthusiasm gap.

28 posted on 08/25/2012 5:07:13 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

The question was when women voters began to outnumber men voters.


29 posted on 08/25/2012 5:15:54 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: justiceseeker93
Can someone please try to explain why it seems many more women turn out to vote than do men? Of course they tend more to vote for the ‘rats, while men tend more to vote GOP.

First, thanks for the ping! Been out of the loop a bit today as preparing for possible trouble with Issac. Really think FL panhandle area and AL,MS,LA will get the brunt but hope it isn't over a CAT 2!

As far as reports that “women tend to vote for the ‘rats’, I believe that is what the Media wants everyone to think and that is what they hope for! I find it hard to believe but maybe it is because I am a Conservative woman. AND even when I was a registered Demrat years ago, I was still conservative in my thinking! Hard to believe, right?

I will add that this coming election gives us all a clear choice, and women will no doubt turn out in droves. It is also my opinion that the women AND men who choose Obama in November will clearly be those who have done NO research, listen ONLY to Liberal Media, AND preally don't CARE that they know NOTHING about Obama!

30 posted on 08/25/2012 8:06:57 PM PDT by seekthetruth (I want a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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To: seekthetruth; All
As far as reports that “women tend to vote for the ‘rats’, I believe that is what the Media wants everyone to think and that is what they hope for!

It's pretty well known that in just about every general election contested between a Republican and a Democrat for any office anywhere in the country, the Democrat will do better among women than he/she will do among men. This is the so-called gender gap. It does not necessarily mean that the Democrat will win the majority of the women's vote, but the percentage of women voting for the Democrat will be greater than the percentage of men doing so.

The most common explanation given for the gender gap is that women in general have more of a vested interest in government handouts and thus agitate for the big government programs advocated by 'Rats more than men do. This statistically holds much more strongly for single women than it does for married women.

31 posted on 08/25/2012 8:53:24 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping!


32 posted on 08/25/2012 9:07:08 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: justiceseeker93

I just hope in November it doesn’t prove to be true!! We need a landslide AGAINST Obama!! That is what I pray for!!


33 posted on 08/25/2012 9:32:06 PM PDT by seekthetruth (I want a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks justiceseeker93, well said.


34 posted on 08/26/2012 1:20:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: seekthetruth; randita; Just A Nobody; smoothsailing; sf4dubya; Impy; InterceptPoint; ...
I just hope in November it doesn’t prove to be true!!

Unfortunately, the "gender gap" is one of those things that will not be eradicated this year nor in the near future. It's kind of built in to the big government mentality and demographic structure of the population.

But don't get depressed about it. As I said, it doesn't necessarily mean that the women's vote will go overwhelmingly to Obama. Not at all. If Romney can come close to even with Obama among women voters, let alone beat him narrowly among women, men will vote very decisively for Romney so as to give him, if not a landslide, a decisive victory, perhaps on the order of Obama's win over McCain in '08 (6-7 percentage points difference in the popular vote). I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a greater Romney margin which could be termed a "landslide."

35 posted on 08/26/2012 4:45:52 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
If the "ministry of propaganda" has as much clout as you fear,

The "ministry of propaganda" (formerly known as the "mainstream media") still has a HUGE amount of clout.

I hate to say it, but FR is something of an "echo chamber" where it's easy to forget that not everyone thinks like many do here. I work in an industry where we have to deal with SOX, Dodd-Frank, and the CFPB, yet far more than half of the people I work with are Obama supporters. Everyone on them could very well be put out of work by Obama and his regime. But they're going to vote for him.

With very few exceptions, everyone I know get their new from the ministry, whether it's the NY Slimes, the KC Red Star, or any of the alphabet networks. Even people with access to high speed Internet don't really use it for keeping up to date on news and current events.

Mark

36 posted on 08/26/2012 2:42:43 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: MarkL
With very few exceptions, everyone I know get their new from the ministry, whether it's the NY Slimes, the KC Red Star, or any of the alphabet networks.

You might want to plug the FoxNews evening lineup to them: O'Reilly-Hannity-Van Susteren. Far from perfect, but still an improvement upon what they are currently reading and watching. Also, would it be dangerous to expose them to Limbaugh or Hannity on radio while you're at work?

37 posted on 08/26/2012 6:28:04 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: A'elian' nation
I don’t see how the agonizing helps anything. Democrats never do. They double down.

Dang right they do! They circle the wagons and more often not come out no worse for the trouble.

One guy on our side stumbles and everyone's in a wobbly panic to put them down. Never an "On your feet, mate. Steady on and watch yer step."

The GOP should have clarified his statement, brushed it off as a misunderstanding, and gone immediately after McCaskill's record.

38 posted on 08/27/2012 12:44:09 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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