[andyk]

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.

[ilgipper]

There is more to being a winning candidate than being prolife. Akin made one of the greatest campaign blunders of all time. Just because he shares that view with some single issue voters doesn’t change that.

[Lorianne]

He has done more to damage the pro-Life side than help it.
He may be pro-Life, but that’s not enough. People who go shoot up abortion clinics are pro-Life ... doesn’t help the cause, it hurts it.

Let’s take an example: If you have a business and say you have a loyal dedicated hard working employee but one who is unreliable in what he says. You don’t send this employee to important meetings, to get a new contract/client, to represent your company ... no matter how much of a nice guy he is, you just don’t do it. It will hurt your business and your chances of success. It’s business suicide to send someone like that to top level meetings with clients etc. That’s the way it works at the top of the game in business ... and in politics.

[StevenFlorida]

Todd Akin is Presidential Material. He is George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan all wrapped into one.

How dare these phony RINOs like Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin and Sarah Palin criticize Akin. No more RINOs, we must all support Akin, and apologize to him.

[Tramonto]

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.

Says a lot about FReepers.

[Norseman]

>>I have been really surprised at how quickly a large number of FReepers turned on Akin...<<

I’m not. He certainly screwed up, and it was natural to hope that the campaign to replace him would work, especially when a lot of us wanted one of the other two candidates to win the primary in the first place.

However, if anyone believes that Akin is really down 10 points to McCaskill, I’ve got the proverbial bridge to sell them. His numbers held with Independents. It was the Republicans in the poll that deserted him. By the next poll, that will have been proven to be temporary, just part of the intense campaign to get him off the ballot.

To imagine that GOP voters are going to desert Akin for McCaskill is pure fantasy, and the likelihood of a write-in candidate emerging is very, very low, so Akin will get back 95-99% of those who deserted him in that one “heat-of-the-moment” poll.

[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.