He should still be fired from Fox and picked up and questioned by the FBI.
Only a very sick and twisted person makes comments about murdering a sitting member of congress.
This is good news.
179 posted on Fri Aug 31 2012 20:55:08 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Road Glide: “Rove must be reading FreeRepublic on the sly:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2923305/posts?page=89#89
If Mr. Akin has the temerity to win his election, one wonders how he will be received in Washington. He will be persona non grata among the GOP elite, but we know that already. But he may also become a lightning rod for hard-right conservatives. I sense he will become as staunchly reliable a voice for conservatism as were Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. The Missouri election may not be over jes’ yet...”
I hope you're right that Karl Rove is reading Free Republic, or getting forwarded items by his staff.
This whole situation was handled badly by Akin at the beginning — obviously he agrees since he's apologized — and also handled badly by the national GOP.
I really, really hope this gets solved soon and we can all move on. The only good thing is this happened in August, when candidates still have time to recover, instead of in late October a few days or weeks before the November election.
I do not share the strongly negative opinion of Karl Rove voiced by a number of people on Free Republic. He's done a lot of good things in the past, he's a very smart man, and while I don't agree with him on some important issues and some key underlying principles, I do believe he wants Barack Obama gone as much as the rest of us.
On that point, at least, we are in agreement.