Posted on 08/24/2012 4:51:36 AM PDT by huldah1776
ST. LOUIS, August 23, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Now that Todd Akin has said he will be staying in the race for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat, senior pro-life and conservative leaders including Phyllis Schlafly, Gary Bauer, and others are telling the Republican Party establishment to back off its “over-the-top” campaign to have him step aside. Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum founder, supports Todd Akin. Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum founder, supports Todd Akin.
Phyllis Schlafly, who emerged on the conservative scene with her 1964 book A Choice Not an Echo, rapped party elites for disenfranchising their own voters. “I don’t think people like that should make the decision,” she said. “The people of Missouri should make that decision.”
Both national pro-family leaders and local grassroots conservative leadership are confused and offended by national party leaders such as Karl Rove, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, and Charles Krauthammer, who have vowed to cut funds from Akin’s candidacy or pushed him to withdraw from the race.
Columnist Ann Coulter has suggested Republicans stage a write-in candidacy for former Governor Kit Bond.
“The on-going parade of public denunciations by various GOP leaders is over-the-top and counterproductive,” said Gary Bauer, a former presidential candidate and leader of the Campaign for Working Families, in a statement e-mailed to LifeSiteNews.com, “Some of their public attacks on Akin have been more aggressive than anything some of these leaders have ever said about Barack Obama and his truly radical rejection of the sanctity of human life and his promotion of abortion-on-demand paid for by the taxpayer!”
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Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation had a personal stake in the issue. The child of rape, he said, “Quite frankly, I’m glad such a pro-family, pro-life stalwart, despite a few bumps and lots of scrapes, is not quitting under pressure from hypocritical pro-abortion radicals and spineless Republicans.”
Iowa Congressman Steve King, who faced his own media feeding frenzy over abortion remarks taken out of context this week, was as blunt, stating that George Soros-funded media are now “dictating the response of leading Republicans.”
The Show Me state’s conservative leaders have flocked to Akin’s side, as well.
John Putnam, Missouri state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, said the national party should be “circling the wagons” around their candidate, not condemning him.
Akin won his races with a family-fueled campaign that defied the state’s Republican establishment. That has led local media to conclude he owes them nothing.
If he loses the race, the Republican Party will not take back control of the U.S. Senate. But pro-family leaders say if the Republicans replace Akin, they will almost certainly lose the race.
“After allegations of sexual indiscretions in sealed divorce records, which were leaked to the media, Republican leaders pressured Jack Ryan to withdraw from the 2004 Illinois Senate race,” said Vision America Action President Dr. Rick Scarborough. “That’s how we ended up with Barack Obama in the White House—a steep price to pay for Republican squeamishness.”
“Missouri voters – who gave Akin the GOP Senate nomination – are wise enough to decide who they’d prefer to send to Washington, ultra-liberal Clair McCaskill or a decent man and an authentic conservative who misspoke,” he said.
Many see the tempest-in-a-tea-party as little more than an attempt to marginalize pro-life voices within the Republican Party. Judie Brown of the American Life League wrote, “This is really not about Akin at all; it is about the red herring that pro-abortion forces have used for years to define genuine pro-life apologists as zealots, fanatics and unrealistic Pollyannas.”
Despite Akin’s remarks, Public Policy Polling, a Democrat-leaning firm, found him polling one point ahead of Democratic incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill, 44-43. “GOP voters dislike McCaskill so much they’re not going to vote for her no matter what their nominee does,” the firm found. “Independent voters haven’t moved at all either.”
Putnam said from his perspective, the only way Akin can prevail is “if the pro-life community gets behind him and makes this a national campaign.”
So, THE DEATH PENALTY, or just life in prison without parole for the women, and girls and all doctors who have, or take part, in any abortion?
Just wondering.
You just love to toe the pro-abortion line don't you?
Since 1973, OVER 53 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS have been murdered due to the nonchalant and uncaring attitude of people JUST LIKE YOU.
Nearly all of these murders have been committed without a penny of taxpayer funding.
An INNOCENT AMERICAN is murdered EVERY 24 SECONDS and you don't give a damn as long as you aren't paying for it.
You are pro-abortion, you just don't have the guts to admit it, so you hide behind leftist talking points.
Or, perhaps a good-ole stoning of women who have abortions, and cut the hands off the doctors who perform them.
What does that world of yours look like?
YOU did NOT answer the question:
Wouldn’t safe, legal and RARE be SO MUCH better than the murder free-for-all on the tax-payer’s dime that we have now?
No, they are flapping their gums that this man said a very stupid and offensive thing. As if a rape victim has some control. More offensive, he used the term "legitimate" victim. As if a rape victim was not legitimate, if she became pregnant.
It appears he was a shoe-in. Not anymore. Even if he could possibly pull it off, this is a black eye to pro-life supporters and all Republicans. IMHO, it seems he went out of his way to hand the election back to McCaskill.
It is not a matter of pro-life. It is a matter stupidity. What else will he say before the campaign is over, or if he manages to get elected. He's now 10 pts. behind. There's a pretty good chance we can kiss that seat goodby. And, it was his own doing.
What does that world of yours look like?
Why don't you just come out and say that you consider pro-life social conservatives to be just like the Taliban? It's got to be killing you to not be able to just say how you really feel.
Can’t answer the question, can you?
Are you deliberately obstinate or is your underlying problem a remedial intellect?
The talking points that you love to parrot mean nothing, they are intended to preserve the status quo, that's why the left employs them.
What an intelligent response to a Rasmussen poll that shows that your candidate is going to cost us the election.
“Akin’s use of the phrase “legitimate rape” was bizarre and offensive, borderline misogynist.”
There are people here who do not want to face this very pertinent fact. They would rather change the subject to a prolife vs pro abortion argument.
Face it folks, Akin is a dead man walking
How would you punish those who commit the murder of innocent babies.
That is a legit question that you have yet to answer.
If you TRULY believe it is murder, than if you do not punish those who commit it, YOU ARE a hypocrite. I just wonder how you intend to punish them.
There are no choices. Akin is the winner of the primary. He says he is not getting out. He has financial backing. A 3rd party or a third candidate will split the vote. Then you are bound to lose.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
It's sad to see that like Obama Democrats Romney Republicans have abandoned the foundational American concept of equal protection for the God-given, unalienable right to live.
What does your world look like? Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, not America.
Sure can. The baby's thirty pieces of silver just come from a different source.
Romney's getting 90% negative media coverage. Seems like he's hurting our chances of winning the election. His gaffes have also been bashed by the likes of Krauthammer, who savaged him over his Olympics comments. And conservatives like Bill Kristol have said he's hurting his chances by not releasing his tax returns. So should Romney withdraw too?
...is going to cost us the election.
I'd be worried too if I were "us".
All of the liberal smear tactics and GOPe machinations are becoming more clear because of the widespread notoriety this issue has generated.
Please do not cite some propoganda from a pro-abortion activist organization like the ACOG.
I am in the medical field. Take your superior attitude & shove it. Akins comments are in no way “dangerous” unless you support the rape & incest “exception” to abortion.
I don’t disbelieve any of the polls ~ they are what they are.
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