Posted on 08/29/2012 11:44:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
............[Mary Matalin]urged that Akin drop out, to be replaced by Ann Wagner, a former co-chair of the RepublicanNationalCommittee, who is the GOP nominee for Akin’s vacant House seat.
Akin “may be dug in, but he’s not going to have a shovel to continuing digging, because he’s not going to have any money,” Matalin told ABC. “We’re going to win Missouri. Ann Wagner is going to end up being our candidate. The party is going to get Ann Wagner in.”
Wagner aides hotly dispute that their candidate is involved in any negotiations about switching races. But sources close to Akin acknowledge that he is monitoring developments in the race, including campaign donations and his standing in the polls, and that it isn’t out of the question he will change his mind.
Should Akin decide that his sliding poll numbers — he now trails McCaskill by ten points and many of his own supporters want him to exit the race — dictate dropping out, he will certainly want a say in who replaces him. John Brunner, a wealthy businessman, and Sarah Steelman, a former state treasurer, both challenged him in the GOP primary and are viewed as unacceptable by Akin forces. On the other hand, Wagner is respected in the Akin camp and a sufficiently conservative presence to satisfy Tea Party members who are suspicious of anyone the Missouri GOP establishment might anoint.
Should Akin leave the race and be replaced by Wagner, both candidates would have to petition a court to get off the ballot before September 25. But state election laws would allow a swap in which Wagner took Akin’s place and he reclaimed the Republican nomination for his House seat. His current district leans strongly Republican; he would be likely to hold it against a Democratic opponent this fall...........
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Yes...Akin needs to man up and get out. And I am a pro life, conservative voter.
Take one for the team, Akin. This isn’t about you.
Where were you during the presidential primaries then?
And I am a pro life, conservative voter.
Where were you during the presidential primaries then?
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Voting for Santorum. Where were you?
This sounds like a good solution.
Obama and Reid must exit in November. We need the Senate.
I guess elections don’t mean anything to Republicans, either, if they don’t turn out the way they want.
Now this is looking less like the reaction to a clumsy answer a week ago and more like an opportunistic GOPe seeking to stick one of their own in Akin’s slot.
This election means a lot. That’s why this is such a problem.
Most of us did not vote for Romney and in fact worked hard for some of the good pro-life candidates. As for Missouri, you can thank dem money and voter inertia (he is a six term congress critter) for getting him across the line in a three way race.
The point is that he is doing no good for the anti-abortion cause and no good for the GOP while he blows kisses to himself in the mirror. He needs to go. Fast.
“Akin “may be dug in, but he’s not going to have a shovel to continuing digging, because he’s not going to have any money,”
That is the handwriting on the wall, coming from a person with deep knowledge of how campaigns work and how critical money is to keep a campaign functioning.
I think you are seeing the first cracks in Akin’s defensive wall.
My opinion, he will be running for his old seat in Nov.
I would have voted for Santorum, but the presidential primary in Missouri was meaningless, so I didn’t bother to vote.
“Take one for the team, Akin. This isn’t about you.”
This is not the time to point a bayonet at him. Much more can br accomplished by letting Akin make his move without being cornered.
“Take one for the team, Akin. This isn’t about you.”
This is not the time to point a bayonet at him. Much more can br accomplished by letting Akin make his move without being cornered.
Sounds like it is the best deal Atkins has left. Going back to his lowly House seat is better than ending up with nothing.
“Akin acknowledge that he is monitoring developments in the race, including campaign donations”
How many phone calls do you think McCaskill is making right now to her campaign contributors, telling them to quickly send checks to the Akin campaign to give him a false sense that he has support.
I disagree. This is a way to leave Todd Atkin in his house seat and get the Missouri Senate seat, and the Senate for the GOP. We need to work together on this.
The NRC and Mary Matalin should shut up and stay out of it at this point they are only compounding the damage. I believe Missouri will look at ther choices, a Conservative who may mispeak but has a very good voting record on social and fiscal matters or a liberal socialist, an obama apoligist with one of the most liberal fiscal and social records in the Senate. He has some of my money, what I would have given the NRC. His website is easy to find and he does take donations.
He better not. The jerks calling for him to drop out are the same Romney lovers who are ruining the Republican Party. Look the guy is beating McCaskle according to the latest poll. I know that disappoints you but too bad.
National Review is only about nine days behind Free Republic.
They must have hired more people to monitor us LOL!
I was under the impression that the date was already past for Akin to drop out and be replaced anywise...?
Then theres this: http://www.lifenews.com/2012/08/29/poll-claims-todd-akin-has-re-taken-lead-on-claire-mccaskill/
A John Fund (my favorite reporter) bunp!
I believe we would have the same result if we’d just stop hammering the guy.
Now that's a good deal for Akin and the conservative movement! We need Akin's beliefs in the House.
Akin, should have simply, recognized what he did was suicide this election cycle, stepped aside and could have returned in the future to fight again, instead he refused to recognize a serious temporary wound, and through another act of stupidity (the first being believing that rape victims are less likely to become pregnant due to magical uteruses) turned this temporary serious wound into a mortal one.
Had he stepped aside quickly, laid low, he could have returned in another cycle and kept on trucking politically. Instead he insisted on sticking around and basically become a millstone around the entire party and cause. He’s now without any chance of returning to politics after this election, unless he would miraculously win, which ain’t gonna happen.
I’m a conservative, I’m Pro Life, and if all he was being attacked for was using the term “legitimate rape” I’d defend the guy, but him truly believing rape has a lower incident of pregnancy than consentual sex is beyond ignorant.
And before you fools come out of the woodwork trying to argue stress affects pregnancy, here’s the FACTS.. 1 time sex act whether consentual or forced has the EXACT same statistical chance of leading to pregnancy!!! PERIOD.
“This is a way to leave Todd Atkin in his house seat and get the Missouri Senate seat, and the Senate for the GOP. We need to work together on this.”
It seems Akin is beginning o realize the reality of his position..
I don’t think he wants to go down as a pariah within his own party, and go through a political shunning that will isolate him for the rest of his life.
These facts will eventually win out, as will having him have to listen to the MSM/dems drag his name through the mud next week on national TV.
A Missouri poll has Akin back on top today. He has good support from Independents. If the Republicans would stop repudiating him and support him, it appears he could have the best shot at winning this. It will be interesting to see if this shows in other polls next week.
I think Fund is reporting the news (A solution springing from FR?? Could be.). :)
He better not. The jerks calling for him to drop out are the same Romney lovers who are ruining the Republican Party. Look the guy is beating McCaskle according to the latest poll. I know that disappoints you but too bad.
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What poll are you looking at? Every poll i have seen, except PPP (a Dem outfit) has him down. You can call me a “jerk” or a “Romney lover,” but the fact is this: replace him with a conservative, pro life, woman, and McCaskill loses. Keep him and it is very much in doubt. Why take that chance?
“A new poll paid for by the Family Research Council, a pro-life group”
No bias here. Probably paid for by McCaskill.
Why take that chance?
Because he won the primary. We are not a dictatorship where we force people out of running for office. The pressure put on him is unsat. Today the poll shows him 3 points ahead and counting. We have been talking about it all day.
There is a poll out there that shows Akin ahead. It’s a group who endorsed the man and were strongly behind them.
You know what, Todd, in the real world, if you get fired, you don’t get to pick your replacement.
So did John McCain
You again. Get you get you Dimwit talking points from McCasket today?
No bias here. Probably paid for by McCaskill.
What? Doesn't it say right there...oh, never mind!
Ann Wagner recently lost her father. Her daughter was/is hospitalized for a serious illness. Just not sure now if she would go for this position...
The date for him to have dropped out without a petition has passed.
Todd isn’t in the real world. He’s a six term congress critter and hasn’t worked in the real world for many a long year. He’s a professional politician, which should have made him unelectable anyway.
“You again. Get you get you Dimwit talking points from McCasket today?”
Elephant, good to see you’re back. Always good to talk to someone who has help make Todd Akin the poster boy for the Pro-Life movement.
The MSM/Dems can’t thank you enough.
So did John McCain
In 2008...so what.
Willie, you post with Dim talking points. Were you sent to freerepublic to be a distruptor?
See reply 38. I need say no more.
From yesterday’s Post-Disgrace:
A spokesman for Wagner strongly denied there was any chance she would replace Akin in the Senate race, calling Matalin’s comments a distraction.
Bingo.
And what if Ann Wagner says “No Thank You”.
Ditto.
I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
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