The GOP Akin Problem Is Worse than They Think

Dianawest.net ^ | 8/24/2012 | Diana West

[TigersEye]

Unfortunately sheeple want to talk about Huckabee's character and not what he said. They won't touch the subject of his word's veracity with a ten foot pole.

On a related note; Akin can't fight McCaskill or reshape his image if the GOP continues to deny him funds and threaten those who help him. I'm not so sure now that the GOP-E wanted McCaskill to lose her seat in the first place. Is she a reliable cross-over vote for RINOs like McLame?

[Norseman]

>>The fact that the GOP chose to “legitimize” the left’s findings on the matter is absolutely reprehensible.<<

I tend to agree, although it’s helpful to remember that Scott Brown of Massachusetts was the first on what quickly became a bandwagon. Brown, defending his seat in liberal Massachusetts, had some justification for disassociating himself from Akin’s comment quickly.

The rest of the GOP-e, not so much, and Senator Brown was probably surprised himself at how many joined him, and so rapidly too. Might have even helped him in his race? (lemons, lemonade, always remember that)

[Big Giant Head]

So, everyone raise your hand if you’re voting for McCaskill over Akin when you get to the voting booth.

anyone?

[Logical me]

Voting for the lesser of two evils, is still evil.

That is so damn wrong. That thinking is why we have King Obama. Life is made up of these choices but most of us grow up and realize that if we want to live in this element we have to make sure we select the lesser. Evil is a crock of shit in this perfect life and sometimes we have to be adult enough to accept it and make it better with what we have.

[rwilson99]

Akin hurts the pro life movement.

His ill informed epically stupid comment would disqualify him to serve on a jury, much less the Senate.

All he had to say was I’m against abortion in all cases, because in every case the child is innocent.

Instead he decided to elaborate in a manner that hurts the pro-life movement today by giving planned parenthood propaganda that demonstrates our side can’t empathize with women... all while denying that thousands of women have heroically given birth to children conceived in rapes.

He’s stupid... If he cared about the pro life movement more than himself he would drop out.

[Uncle Chip]

Is she a reliable cross-over vote for RINOs like McLame?

There was a move in Missouri by the retired and never heard from until election time Senator John Danforth et al to slip their favored beholden to them candidate into the Senate race as late as March of this year despite the money and time that all the other three had spent on the campaign. Steelman, Akin, and Brunner were unacceptable to him and them.

And now we have this hystrionic contrivance.

It is highly possible that no matter who would have won the primary, this would be happening to them as well.

[chronicles]

Not yet, but hopeful.

If there is no write-in, I will vote for Akin under duress. But I have lost respect for the man because I don’t think he has the nation’s best interest at heart.

I know Missouri can do better.

[Syncro]

Yea makes sense, Senator Brown the faux tea party candidate, a wolf draped in tea bags to get elected.

A liberal in reality, perfect fit for the new Gop-e

[pilipo]

All he had to say was I’m against abortion in all cases, because in every case the child is innocent.

At best,his response was a classic case of too smart by half.

[Lorianne]

Thank you.
Well stated.

[chronicles]

As I said before, call me what you want.

I’m not playing your game.

[Norseman]

Brown...”A liberal in reality, perfect fit for the new Gop-e”

Let’s not look the gift horse too closely in the mouth. He’s a perfect fit for the GOP-Massachusetts, and that might be the only way we hold the seat.

Politics, strange bedfellows, all of that...

[SuziQ]

It is my choice to make. The seat is probably lost anyway if Akin does not withdraw.

It will only be lost if folks don't vote for him, whatever the issues.

[donozark]

In Missouri, a write-in candidate has until 2 Fridays before the election (Oct.26) to file. They seldom win anywhere...IMO it is too late for such an effort to be mounted anyway. Other than as a “protest vote.”

[paudio]

I'm surprised to see how many so-called conservatives behave like true liberals by engaging in attribution games, and consider anyone who disagree with them a sheep who couldn't think with their own brain. Calls for withdrawal come from every corner of the Republican Party, from liberal corner like Brown and Romney, to conservative figures like Palin, West, and Walker. It is not liberal media who calls for his withdrawal, rather, the conservative media: Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. If anything, it is liberal media (and Akin's early supporter, McCaskill) who want him to stay until Sep 25. Whenever someone points this out, the reaction they got from Akin supporters usually a litany of things those people did (Brown did this, Palin did that, etc, so they're not to be trusted).

Akin shifted the election discourse from the economy into the definition of rape. I understand that some Akin supporters are more than happy to see the election is about abortion, rape, etc., rather than the economy, but that's not what the voters' most immediate priority now.

[Theodore R.]

I have been really surprised at how quickly a large number of FReepers turned on Akin, a true pro life candidate who has genuine concern for the unborn.i> Much the same was done to Santorum, who said "he had taken one for the team" on some votes in the Senate. But Newton Gingrich was given a "free pass" on the holes in his record. People here have been unforgiving of human error, but if it was a Democrat, the MO people would flock to back him.

[Theodore R.]

the economy, but that’s not what the voters’ most immediate priority now.

Howard Baker said practically these same words in 1981, and we got Sandra Day O’Connor a few months later.

[donozark]

Ma won in 2006 over Jim Talent by less than 50K votes. Every vote counts. Over 2 million voted in that election and it was a VERY bad year for Bush. Fallujah (Third), IEDs. Exploding muslims. Stem Cell issue in MO (M.J. Fox) and J. Talent just lost his wind before election night.

Again people, we're trying to win an election here. Not climbing Hill 881s...

[TigersEye]

Calls for withdrawal come from every corner of the Republican Party, from liberal corner like Brown and Romney, to conservative figures like Palin, West, and Walker. It is not liberal media who calls for his withdrawal, rather, the conservative media: Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.

That's a very good description of herd mentality in action. Regardless of their individual views they follow each other in unthinking lockstep.

[chronicles]

Thanks for the information.

I am aware that it might be a losing proposition...I will re-evaluate the situation on 26th of October.

It is possible that Sarah Palin may come up with a write-in candidate. I value her judgement.

I appreciate your courtesy.