Posted on 08/21/2012 11:04:44 AM PDT by tsowellfan
At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed: "Firestorm. A Congressman's words about rape rocket across the country...women's issues are front and center again." Introducing the lead story moments later, Williams announced how "suddenly" Republican Todd Akin's comments "exploded well beyond the borders of Missouri."
Correspondent Andrea Mitchell began her report by nationalizing the gaffe made by Akin during a local news interview: "Republicans fear their hopes for the White House and control of the Senate could turn on what happened at a St. Louis TV station..." Mitchell later touted: "In a race where the President had a 15-point advantage with women voters in the last NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Republicans were reeling...
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oK lets see the pro Akin COD types now say that they have a winning issue and everyone else is a RINO.
And yet every poll that comes out seems to have Romney up by a couple points over the previous poll...
anything from NBC is irrelevant, especially if it comes from Brian Williams.
Wishful thinking. This isn’t a Presidential issue. Best I can tell, all four players on the national ticket agree that Akin is an idiot.
SnakeDoc
If the election is based on “women’s issues”, then we, as a country, get what we deserve.
This incident will be forgotten a couple of weeks from now. The Republicans will likely lose this seat (though I won’t be surprised if Akin still wins), but to say they could lose the WH because of this is ludicrous.
So much for the economy, constitution etc.
This will be the issue from here on out.
This helps mainly one person. Obama
He would rather not discuss the economy and now he doesn’t have to.
The GOP needs to get some guts.
What good is a RINO in the White House if the democrats control Congress?
NBC? NBC?? Who or what is NBC?
I seem to vaguely remember a once great and influential bastion of the Fourth Estate.
Then again....as I get older my memory plays little tricks on me and it could just be a complete figment.
NBC, huh?
Well to be fair, even on here I haven't seen anybody saying that Akin statement was 100% correct and has nothing to apologize for (although there might be a few that feel that way). The vast majority seem to either think Atkin is finished and should drop out of the race immediately, or that the apology was sufficient, the party should stick by him and it will blow over.
Oh, Andrea Mitchell, the woman clown.
They can declare anything they want. Gas is up to 4 bucks a gallon again in Ct. This is a pocketbook election but if I were a conservative, which I am, I would never fear an election based on family values. America is still a pro life, pro traditional marriage country. Let the morons run on that and Romney/Ryan can run on jobs. No biggie.
Man ... You don’t get it. The idiots that make up the 20% in the mIddle, the floaters, will be convinced it is by the full court press put on by the DNC and the msm. If you think these vipers won’t drive the agenda you are seriously diluded.
FUNBC
Let’s get some perspective, as Rush pointed out; the Democrat National Convention keynote speaker, Bubba, is a rapist, etc. but the Dems stand by their man.
We have some little guy who just doesn’t want to kill babies, but we drop him cold.
Brian Williams is a twit, and Andrea Mitchell is a shill. Feel free to interchange those nouns anyway you’d like. It still makes sense.
You're implying that the issue is about abortion. His stance against abortion is not the problem or the issue. It was his Makaka moment that's the issue.
I also note that first you say that he "nothing to apologize for". Yet in the same paragraph you acknowledge that he DID apologize.
I wish you were right, but i have seen many posters defending him- maygonzo- e.g.
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