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Guess who's defending Akin now
Politico ^ | 8/31/12 | Alexander Burns

Posted on 08/31/2012 10:23:56 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Newt Gingrich on Thursday came to Todd Akin’s defense, calling the embattled Missouri Senate candidate “honorable” and “sincere.”

Speaking to POLITICO’s Mike Allen at the Playbook Afternoon Snack event here, the former House speaker said the controversy surrounding Akin’s recent “legitimate rape” comments was a “good example of why the power structure in Washington sometimes ought to take a deep breath.”

“Todd Akin made a mistake. He’s an honorable guy, he’s a sincere guy. He said something stupid. There was a firestorm,” Gingrich said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: akin; akin4mccaskill; akin4obama; mccaskill; missouri; obama; romney; waronwomen
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To: DallasBiff
Who caused this firestorm, Todd Akin or Karl Rove.

Who made that inappropriate joke regarding Akin???

Tell your boss to suck it up and apologize. If he needs to learn how I'm sure that Akin can help him.

41 posted on 08/31/2012 12:01:51 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: betty boop
The GOP-E (whatever that is) wants him "dead" because Akin actually supports — passionately — the right to life; but it is inconvenient to their plans that a "social issue" like this should intrude on their carefully constructed plans for winning this election (including the Senate).

Yeah know Betty if you met me at a diner counter, and the conversation went into such things, as Todd Akin stated for the record, such as 'legitimate rape" and that the female reproductive system shuts down during rape, would you consider me a creep or a legitimate candidate for the US Senate.

42 posted on 08/31/2012 12:06:58 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
Please, Akin took a day to half-heartedly to "apologize" for his remarks, and the he flew to Tampa to listen to his echo chamber. BTW, have you noticed that since Todd Akin has kept his mouth shut, he is now equal in the polls. All he has to do is keep his mouth shut, but his hubris won't let him.

Dallas are you in Dallas? Apparently you are isolated from real time and real events. Akin did go to Tampa, but he had ads running in my local media apologizing the whole week after he forgot who he was talking to.

Akin is not alone in suffering as you call it hubris, you seem to have more than enough for you and Akin put together....

43 posted on 08/31/2012 12:12:30 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Have you donated to the 'resurrection of Akin' yet?)
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To: betty boop

Ditto everything you so well said!!!!! Foot-in-mouth’s a permanent condition for the dems, but who notices?


44 posted on 08/31/2012 12:18:12 PM PDT by Mach9
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To: DallasBiff

“When McCaskill unleashes the lions from her war chest”?.....She has cats on her chest?.....lots of animals in your comments.....lions and tigers and bears and sharks, oh my!


45 posted on 08/31/2012 12:19:47 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DallasBiff

Good for Newt

I think Newt now sees that the attacks on Akin were merely because he was pro-Life Conservative...not for his comments

When is Karl Rove quitting Fox for his pro-murder comments?


46 posted on 08/31/2012 12:30:28 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (When is Fox News gonna fire Karl Rove?)
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To: DallasBiff; pookie18
gingrich family, The Gingrich Family
47 posted on 08/31/2012 12:31:28 PM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: DallasBiff

Go Newt! Thanks for reminding me once again why I voted for you in Pennsylvania this year. Just don’t do any more awkward “two-for-one” speeches with Callista now.


48 posted on 08/31/2012 12:31:56 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: Uncle Chip

Sounds like Tyler learned his lesson not to abandon conservatives when they’re down after quitting Newt’s campaign last summer and then returning in the fall during Newt’s resurgence.


49 posted on 08/31/2012 12:35:41 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: DallasBiff
the people against the imaginary GOP-e, the so called GOP-e

I'm not against the imaginary GOP-e, I'm against the so-called GOP-e. And I don't particularly care what you call them.

50 posted on 08/31/2012 12:38:15 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: DallasBiff; Mach9; Alamo-Girl
Yeah know Betty if you met me at a diner counter, and the conversation went into such things, as Todd Akin stated for the record, such as 'legitimate rape" and that the female reproductive system shuts down during rape, would you consider me a creep or a legitimate candidate for the US Senate.

As to whether the female reproductive system "shuts down" or not during forcible (or as Akin put it, "legitimate") rape is simply not a question that "science" has any evidence for, pro or con. I am not aware that science has ever conducted any studies on this issue.

I understand that Akin is a devout Roman Catholic. Which at least among the orthodox of that community, means he's "all in" for the pre-born's right to life.

Even if Akin is wrong about certain facts of reproductive biology, certainly he is right about that.

But this is the very question that the political Left — and apparently, also the RNC — finds inconvenient to ask during this election year.

Of course, the political Left NEVER wants to ask that question. Indeed, to ask it is forbidden. And they will try to punish the person who DOES raise it, every time. But I call that censorship. And I deplore to see the GOP use such tactics on its own, against its own.

"There are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy," my dear DallasBiff....

At the end of the day, this dispute strikes me as a tempest in a teapot. It's time to move on — and win a Senate seat for Tea Party conservatism.

JMHO FWIW

51 posted on 08/31/2012 1:01:50 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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To: Mach9
Foot-in-mouth’s a permanent condition for the dems, but who notices?

Joe Biden certainly gets a pass every time....

Thanks so much, Mach9, for your kind words of support!

52 posted on 08/31/2012 1:03:50 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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To: DallasBiff
Wow, you sound like Stalin, making me apologize for something I didn't say.

Give us a break. Your posting history is there for all to see. Everyone knows you were one of the biggest cowards, beating up on Akin louder than anyone else when he was down. We all know you're the last person we'd want to be with in a foxhole.

53 posted on 08/31/2012 1:04:35 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: DallasBiff

Good for Newt

I wish Sarah Palin had taken this tact

She disappointed me on this issue


54 posted on 08/31/2012 1:07:21 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: tsowellfan
This is good news for Akin if true. Newt Gingrich is Tea Party. McCaskill must be getting worried now IMHO.

Not only that, but Michele Bachmann was asked about Akin by Greta on FOX this week, and all she said in her reply was how bad McCaskill is and that she hopes the voters look at her record. Tea Partiers know that TRUE Tea Partiers are hard to come by and we won't have any left if we throw them out the first time they make a mistake, even after 12 years of loyal service to the conservative cause.

55 posted on 08/31/2012 1:10:32 PM PDT by JediJones (Upcoming Democrat Presidential Primary: Tuesday, November 6, 2012)
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To: DallasBiff
No I do not. I'm just a blue collar worker who gets sick of the pro-life lobby hubris

Aha, so you reveal your true motives. Just like most people who spoke out against Akin, it was based on your disdain for pro-lifers, not on his gaffe.

56 posted on 08/31/2012 1:12:34 PM PDT by JediJones (Upcoming Democrat Presidential Primary: Tuesday, November 6, 2012)
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To: DallasBiff
This is a happy occasion. Let's turn those frowns upside down.
57 posted on 08/31/2012 1:14:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: uncbob
Good for Newt I wish Sarah Palin had taken this tact She disappointed me on this issue

She still can. Her supporters should tell her to come to her senses and get on the right side of this situation.

58 posted on 08/31/2012 1:31:04 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: napscoordinator
Bull crap. He deserves to be bitter and when he is elected, he won’t have anyone he owes favors too.

He will owe the people of Missouri for his election and to whatever extent that those people are still Republicans.

59 posted on 08/31/2012 1:32:01 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM)
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To: betty boop

Joe Biden certainly gets a pass every time....

What about Obie? 57 states, the Austrian language? That should have kept him out of domestic AND foreign policy positions!

Akin’s not being elected as a scientist or a doctor but as a legislator; and he’s made NO mistakes in those areas.


60 posted on 08/31/2012 1:33:27 PM PDT by Mach9
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