Posted on 08/22/2012 10:19:19 PM PDT by Red Steel
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the end, Representative Todd Akin’s fate will depend not on what happens in Washington or Tampa, Fla., or on a talk radio show, but on the voters of Missouri.
A number of voters and strategists here believe it is not a foregone conclusion that Mr. Akin faces the certain defeat predicted by establishment Republican leaders calling on him to abandon his Senate bid after he made controversial comments about rape and abortion.
A pile of factors, they say, could make the situation survivable: local backlash against all the national party meddling, an intensely grass-roots fund-raising effort (Mr. Akin, a six-term congressman, has sent e-mails seeking $3 contributions from supporters in recent days), an influx of aid from some Christian groups, and a state that has in recent years grown more conservative than the national bellwether it was once seen as.
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Leaders of several conservative Christian and social-issues groups said they would step in with organizational, financial and news-media help. The Family Research Council said it now hoped to sponsor independent advertising and phone banks and solicit donations for Mr. Akin. And by Wednesday evening, those tiny donations requested by Mr. Akin’s campaign several times this week were starting to add up. Mr. Akin’s Twitter account reported that he had set a goal to raise $100,000 by midnight and had raised $88,000.
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I think I may have meant politician, sorry about that. I am unaware steve deace and haven’t listened the mike gallager in years.
I wasn’t really talking about Machiavelli or the invasion of italy by the North. There are other examples of demographics being changed by war and it’s not just “inter-marriage”.
Pregnancy from rape is very rare, that is true.
Pregnancy from rape is very rare, that is true.
Pregnancy from rape is very rare, that is true.
Is that because doctors in the ER routinely give rape victims a morning after pill as well as antibiotics?
I know how to fight. More importantly I know when to fight.
Oh I see.
You fight for the enemy on a critical front in the second to last battle of the war.
Nice going ^^
This can't be considered the second to last battle of the war either.
I wouldn’t want a fool in my foxhole and that’s what you are if you don’t know what it is exactly that he said and did. Idiot.
I know exactly what he said and what he did, and neither of those things matter AT ALL.
I am not an idiot, but you, sir, are a cowardly, little squawking chicken. Get out of my face and go lose your conuty on your own.
He made a mistake, there’s no doubt about that.
He can’t lose the war without the assistance, or lack there of, of cowardly republican politcal canniabls.
He didn’t leave the race, and now he can’t leave the race. So the only way to defeat McCaskill is to elect Akin.
That’s the reality of the situtaion. There is no other plan or viable route.
There’s no point in pissing and moaning over his mistake. There’s no point in wishing or whining or crying or hand wringing or anything else. The only worthwhile action is to forgive him and elect him.
That’s it, nothing else, any other action is not only a waste of time, it’s what the enemy wants.
LOL!! Good enough for ME!! PRAY!!!
I disagree, you are an idiot.
go lose your conuty on your own.
you're gonna lose your "conuty" without my help, I assure you. Idiot.
Typos happen, bud.
Should I resign my job, replace myself with someone else and disappear from public life as a result of it?
Do I embarrass you?
I support Todd Akin, and I do not support sniveling little cowards like you.
In case anyone wonders what the PCA reference means, here are two posts on what it means that Akin is a conservative, a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America:
Todd Akin is a PCA member and Covenant Seminary graduate
(Vanity)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2921258/posts
Being a Pastor and Speaking Out in Today’s Culture
By Dr. Michael Milton, Chancellor, Reformed Theological Seminary
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2922254/posts
Personally, I'm a member of an even more conservative denomination, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The PCA is too broadly evangelical for me, but I'm the first one to say that both of our denominations have their problems.
To prove that Democrats can get some things right, go read Senator Webb's work on the Scots-Irish role on the settlement of the American frontier. One could make a good argument that Scottish blood makes Old School Presbyterians a pretty ornery bunch, and that's Webb's view. I personally think it has much more to do with a very high view of the role of the Old Testament that is shared by Calvinists whether they're Scots Presbyterians, English Puritans, Dutch Reformed, Swiss Reformed, Hungarian Reformed, Korean Presbyterians, or any of the other ethnic groups which have come to have large percentages of Calvinists either now or at some point in their history.
Too bad the Missouri Presbytery isn't one of the hard-core conservative presbyteries in the PCA. Akin might generate a lot of visitors to PCA churches when people realize the PCA is the Presbyterian equivalent of the Southern Baptist Convention -- a strongly conservative evangelical denomination that generally sticks to its guns about core beliefs. If he wins this election, I hope the PCA asks him to lead a seminar on Christian involvement in politics at the 2013 General Assembly, with all the media attention that will generate. Given the nonsense being done by the wacko liberals in the PC(USA), conservative Calvinists need some publicity, and Akin has overnight become the best-known Reformed political figure in the United States. Now we just need to be known for not eating baked feet for breakfast.
Fortunately most Calvinists are far more articulate than Akin was last weekend.
Interesting, will read the links soon.
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