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Akin’s Support Craters in Missouri
Weekly Standard ^ | 8/26/12 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 08/26/2012 3:00:52 PM PDT by rhema

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Todd Akin is our Alvin Greene - a toxic stupid inept candidate who will will certainly lose but the rest of the GOP has to distance itself from to stop from being tainted by his indefensible comment.

Even Rush said what he said was stupid and he should step down.


121 posted on 08/26/2012 5:25:10 PM PDT by ClarenceThomasfan (Akin is a dumb____ (a three letter word that rhymes with crass))
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To: xzins

>> His numbers tanked far more because his “friends” in the Gop-E spent the last week hacking, slicing and dicing their own man.

Yup.


122 posted on 08/26/2012 5:25:24 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: so_real

You’ve got the republican vote. It’s the independents that jackass Akin threw away and it’s not coming back. Fail!


123 posted on 08/26/2012 5:29:11 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Legalize Freedom!!)
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To: TonyInOhio
Why not give them a chance to vote for someone else again, someone who can actually beat McCaskill?

Because the laws of the state of Missouri don't permit it and he won the primary and what makes you think anyone else could beat McCaskill at this point and you are beginning to sound like a Democrat who wants to contest every decision and count every chad and redo every election again and again ad nauseum until they get their way ... and then want something else.

Akin is the nominee from Missouri. Get used to it.

124 posted on 08/26/2012 5:30:39 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

The two obvious replacements that you did not mention, Sarah Steelman and John Brunner, were each projected to beat McCaskill in pre-primary polling. Why not choose one of them? They could easily put campaigns back together and would actually have a chance to win.


125 posted on 08/26/2012 5:31:28 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Send Sherrod Brown packing - www.JoshMandel.com)
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To: muir_redwoods

Are those independents sufficient in number to draw enough votes away from McCaskill and Akin to win the race for a third-party or write-in candidate by even a slim majority? It's still a "Fail!" ...


126 posted on 08/26/2012 5:32:27 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: xzins

Exactly!


127 posted on 08/26/2012 5:32:43 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Uncle Chip
Akin is the nominee from Missouri. Get used to it.

You're probably right. And come November, McCaskill will still be the Senator from Missouri. Get used to it.

128 posted on 08/26/2012 5:35:34 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Send Sherrod Brown packing - www.JoshMandel.com)
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To: so_real

Akin screwed us all by staying in the race. He is not irreplaceable but every day that passes makes it more difficult. Somebody should have grown up a long time ago. He’s a jerk.


129 posted on 08/26/2012 5:36:50 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Legalize Freedom!!)
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To: Ingtar

” watch one of the RINOs get put up in his place. The GOP-E will see to it that the 97.25 rated candidate will be replaced by a squishy one.”

And an ultra liberal democrat will be sent packing.

Fair trade.


130 posted on 08/26/2012 5:36:56 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: Uncle Chip

I’m glad you responded but I was hoping you would share with us who has been offered the slot by the Central Committee if Akin drops and who has turned it down. With your comments, I was hoping you had some info for us that I missed. I can’t read everything.


131 posted on 08/26/2012 5:37:54 PM PDT by doug from upland (I don't like RINOs, but I love my country more than I hate Romney...Muslim marxist, get out!)
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To: TonyInOhio; Uncle Chip

For Those Wondering About Missouri Write-in Bids . . .

"So Sarah Steelman and John Brunner, who lost the GOP Senate primary, are not eligible to run as write-in candidates."


132 posted on 08/26/2012 5:38:11 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: TonyInOhio

“You’re probably right. And come November, McCaskill will still be the Senator from Missouri. Get used to it.”

And get used to McCaskill being there for 6 years. 6 long liberal years.


133 posted on 08/26/2012 5:38:44 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: TonyInOhio

Various reasons —


134 posted on 08/26/2012 5:40:44 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: so_real
"So Sarah Steelman and John Brunner, who lost the GOP Senate primary, are not eligible to run as write-in candidates."

They would not be running as write-in candidates; one of them would be running as the GOP nominee after Akin withdraws.

135 posted on 08/26/2012 5:42:07 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Send Sherrod Brown packing - www.JoshMandel.com)
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To: Uncle Chip
...what makes you think anyone else could beat McCaskill at this point...?

Like Akin, Steelman and Brunner were also leading McCaskill by double-digits...and they haven't said anything stupid or made any pig-headed decisions since the primary.

Of course, they could beat McCaskill.

136 posted on 08/26/2012 5:42:55 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: muir_redwoods

Akin screwed us all by staying in the race. He is not irreplaceable but every day that passes makes it more difficult. Somebody should have grown up a long time ago. He’s a jerk.

I don't disagree at all with you that Akin is not irreplaceable. We are all replaceable. But I see too that if the GOP would end the pile-on and help move the focus back to what's wrong with the McCaskill/Reid side of the aisle, this situation is completely salvageable. Those elements of the GOP that are cutting off Akin because he doesn't lockstep to the progressive republican movement are the real jerks.


137 posted on 08/26/2012 5:43:27 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Uncle Chip

“and what makes you think anyone else could beat McCaskill at this point and you are beginning to sound like a Democrat”

This statement proves you know nothing at all about the political situation here in Mo as far as the senate race is concerned.

McCAskill is the weakest Democratic senator running for re-election. A worthy Rep candidate, even at this late date, would beat her. That Akin is losing this bad against a candidate this weak shows you just how toxic how he is.


138 posted on 08/26/2012 5:43:35 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: Zhang Fei

Perfectly dissected, thanks!


139 posted on 08/26/2012 5:44:24 PM PDT by Rutabega (No one reads these anyway, right?)
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To: so_real

“this situation is completely salvageable”

Are you serious or are you just being argumentative?

Have you read this article? Do you understand the impact of his losing support so massively among moderates and independents?

He has made his reputation and he has to live with it, there is no turning his image around. Can you tell me how he does this? How he pulls his negatives up? How does he gets his message out against the constant barrage of rape and rape related questions on TV radio and during the debates.

Akin is a dead man walking.


140 posted on 08/26/2012 5:49:25 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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