K, I’ll type slowly.
Its GOP primary, which means very conservative = good.
McCaskill knows this, and she wants to run against Akin.
THUS, she “criticizes” Akin as “too conservative” knowing that will be a good thing for him in the primary and will carry weight with anyone naive enough not to know what she was doing.
Let's look at what you said again...
@With due respect Chipper, you totally missed the psy ops part of the McCaskill campaign. Don't you get what she meant to accomplish by calling him "too conservative" in the middle of a GOP primary? Is this really hard to figure out? No, it's not....
Then I said...@Since you haven't stated it then I'd sure like to hear your opinion on what you think she was trying to accomplish.
And your "reasoning" is this...
Its GOP primary, which means very conservative = good.
McCaskill knows this, and she wants to run against Akin.
THUS, she “criticizes” Akin as “too conservative” knowing that will be a good thing for him in the primary and will carry weight with anyone naive enough not to know what she was doing.
Weeeeell I find your "reasoning" just a liiiiiittle suspect
Let's see...her ad calling him "too conservative" @came out around 8/2/12-8/3/12
And the election was held on @08/07/12.
So didn't that ad come out at the end of the campaign and not in "the middle" of the campaign as you asserted? Just asking.
So that's a whole four or five days in which that ad had time to "have an effect", right?
(what was the polling like at that time and who was winning on the GOP side? /strictly rhetorical question)
Furthermore, given the reporting at the time...
@McCaskill ad frames Rep. Akin as too extreme for Missouri 08/10/12
The new ad follows what has been McCaskill's tactic throughout the Missouri GOP primary race: to tar Akin as too conservative for Missouri, a state Democrats hope can swing in favor of Obama this year, despite a narrow loss in 2008. Akin was the favored candidate to win the GOP Senate primary, as Democrats hope his Tea Party ties will make him vulnerable.
(throughout? how long did those campaigns go on again? /strictly rhetorical question)
...I hope you don't mind if I consider your reasoning very suspect.
It seems to me that she got a little too smart for her britches and he won despite her best efforts to stop him.
And as was also written around that same time frame...
@Claire McCaskill trails GOP candidates in Senate race, poll shows July 28, 2012
Coker predicted that McCaskill's fortunes at this point turn in large part on luck.
"They're going to need a little more than message politics. They're going to have to hope for an incident that hurts the other side, he said.
She needed an "incident" then...one month prior to the primary.
Well, she didn't get it then, but one is sure being created now.
Anything can be created and twisted into something it isn't, as you well know.