Posted on 09/27/2012 5:20:20 AM PDT by Lakeshark
While I called for Akin to drop out intitially too, when I saw the worthless moderate to liberal retreads the establishment wanted to replace him with on the ballot, I got pissed. The NRSC never batted an eye in funding Specter, Snowe, Murkowski, Crist, Jeffords, Collins, McCain, and any other moderate candidate for the senate, no matter what they said or did, no matter the betrayals, the backstabbing, the liberal votes. Yet when Akin says something impolitic and inartful, they immediately throw him under the bus and try to replace him with another of their moderate stooges.
I hope Akin wins, and I think he will.
One thing I did see in my Missouri neighbors: if Akin had withdrawn, there was so much bitterness about the GOP elite pushing him out that his replacement would have been lucky to get to 40% in November.
I suspect most of the loudest Akin bashers on FR had barely heard of him a week before his gaffe yet they claimed to know so much about him.
I believe they are the ones who are upset because Akin’s slip pointed out how weak Romney was on Life.
He's the candidate, either he or McCaskill will be MO senator in January. Do you really think McCaskill is an alternative, this mealy mouthed faux Bambicare supporter? Good grief, get a life.
I don't doubt that at all. And had Akin been forced to withdraw then that's about the only scenario I can imagine that could have cost Romney the state.
I don't think Akin is a bad person, I think he's a bad candidate. I would have liked to have taken Missouri, but I would also would like to have taken Ohio or Michigan as well. In all three cases, the Republican candidate is preferable to the Democrat. But I recognize that the GOP is not going to take Ohio or Michigan so I don't think spending money on any of those candidates is a wise use of resources. I don't think Akin is going to win in Missouri, either. So I don't see wasting a lot of time and money there. That doesn't make me pro-McCaskill. It just makes me a realist.
<>It just makes me a realist.<>
No — it makes you a RINO like John Danforth:
“I cannot support Todd Akin,” Danforth said.
Go Akin, beat Rove.
Here’s the choice: Akin has a 97% lifetime American conservative Union rating. McCaskill has a 15% ACU rating which is actually lower than Harry Reid’s 18%. In 2006 we were all so happy to get rid of Chaffee and his 35% ACU. We got Whitehouse with his 1.6% ACU. Chaffee is a skunk but we lost 33% of ACU rating. Akin is a good man, lets not loses him.
Send him something, I did. http://www.akin.org/
Unless you're an Axelrod conservative........
It's either him or McCaskill. Which do you want as MO senator?
You didn’t post the Akin quotes describing what you claim, you merely posted your personal descriptions of his politics.
You signed up recently to run a wrecking campaign against Akin, I would say that your personal summaries of his positions are useless.
You got that right, Ingtar. My neighbors and I were a) really pissed off at the ignoramus' that attacked him and b) doubly pissed off at the NRSC, GOPe and other so called Republican idiots calling for him to step down.
Missourians really, really don't like to be told what to do by outsiders. It tends to get our backs up. AirClaire ain't got a chance.
And his bad points are.....????
In theory, not much. But we're not dealing with theory, we're dealing with an election. And telling the majority of the electorate that you want to do away with their goodies is not a good way to win one.
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