Posted on 09/17/2012 11:37:16 AM PDT by doug from upland
Rep. Todd Akin’s wife, Lulli Akin, says the Republican Party’s attempts to push her husband out of the Missouri Senate race — over his false assertion that women who are raped rarely get pregnant — are like rape itself. RELATED: Akin TV Ad Buy Canceled — For Failure To Pay Station
She also believes the GOP’s abandonment is on par with the tyranny that launched the American Revolution.
Akin’s wife isn’t the first one to compare Akin’s explosive rape comments, and the ensuing fallout, to rape: Bryan Fischer said the party’s treatment of the embattled candidate had made Akin “a victim of forcible assault.”
Lulli Akin made the charge in a new National Journal profile, which reveals a family affair of a campaign — Akin’s campaign manager is his son, and Lulli is also a key player.
Lulli Akin says in the profile that she is not turned off by the refusal of national Republicans to contribute money to the race. She says small donations — and God’s will — will help her husband win:
“God can increase,” she said, citing the “Feeding of the 5,000” — a Gospel miracle in which Jesus uses five small barley loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude. The campaign will take small contributions, “respect them, and say ‘God, multiply it. Make it pay,’ ” Lulli Akin said. “It brought us through the primary, same way. We’re gonna see it again, because God wants to be honored.”
Lulli Akin echoed her husband’s disdain for Republican leaders:
Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections “by the people and for the people” with “tyranny, a top-down approach.” She added, “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way.”
She cited colonists who “rose up and said, ‘Not in my home, you don’t come and rape my daughters and my … wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?”
Todd Akin said his wife’s comparisons to 1776 were “a little more grandiose than the way I would say it” — but he did say that there is a “this tremendous sense of uprising I feel among the people I talk to.”
We will win the Senate without Missouri (NE + ND + MT + VA + WI + other possibilities - ME). But, we might not win the White House without Missouri. The $1.5 million spent by the Democrats to nominate Akin in our primary was the smartest investment they made this election cycle.
The $5 million withdrawn from this race by Rove/GOPe may prove to be the dumbest of their investment decisions.
I have no doubt Akin is going to be made into another Christine O'Donnell, but the fault will lie squarely on those looking to placate the left.
I stopped being a Republican when Priebus publicly stated the party would not support Akin even if he were running even with McCaskill. And any Republican who went along with him stopped being a Conservative then, too.
You people who jumped on the bandwagon after Akin's minor faux pas deserve four more years of Obama. You and yours don't have the stones to govern a great country.
If the national GOP and affiliated groups did not distance themselves from Akin after his "legitimate rape" comments, every GOP candidate nationwide would have to answer the question of why they were taking money from the GOP === an organization that believed in the term legitimate rape and magic uterus theory. Every GOP senate candidate would have been forced to disavow Akin, yet say it was OK to take money from the national GOP who had not taken a position on Akin's comments. I cannot believe the Akin supporters cannot understand the dynamics involved. This is not about the national GOP trying to dump a conservative --- its about the national GOP trying to preserve the party's nominees in the remaining national elections from Todd Akin's irresponsible, undisciplined comments.
Sorry, I just don't accept that premise or assumption. We must at least try another approach, i.e., confrontation, than our current response, which isn't working. The more we cave in, the more it encourages the MSM to continue with their tactics.
You’re preaching to the choir sir. :)
I think it’s disgusting what the GOP is doing to solid conservative candidates, but then they’ve been doing it for a year in the primaries.
re: It’s SOP, they’d rather see McKaskill in than a conservative.
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Nonsense. Is the party refusing to send money to conservative candidates?
Hell I may have to reconsider my vote.
Reminds me of when the party dumped Buchanan for dumb Dole. The guy who bragged that he never read or cared what was in the GOP platform.
The GOPe are bent in staying in power even if it means losing the election.
LOL. We have two choices for senator in MO—Todd Akin or Claire McCaskill. If winning this seat is so important, why shouldn’t the GOP support its own candidate? Or at least refraining from attacking him.
ditto.....Akin did harm and gave them an issue they could ride to November across the country
Look, we need MO if we are going to take the Senate. The party needs to stand behind Akin. 100 percent.
I think the onus falls on the GOP to stop attacking Akin and actually support him. He is the nominee based on a primary.
The Akins are the stupid party.
What an asinine question!
They are refusing to send money to THIS conservative candidate.
If it were not for the likes of you, we'd be running Sarah Palin.
Most GOP voters of Missouri did not vote for Akin - it is not as if he won a huge mandate. In a three way race he barely won - and with crossover voters and a bit of help from McCaskill - who (I wonder why?) wanted HIM as her opponent.
I am sure the majority of GOP party people would be glad to refrain from “attacking” Todd Akin - but his twit wife seems to be “attacking” the GOP, allowing everyone to remember what her idiot husband said - and making sure his idiocy is front and center for the MSM to brand all Republicans as half wits.
He is your candidate now. So fund him. He didn't think he needed the GOP, or to listen to them - so I don't see how it is incumbent upon those dreaded “outsiders” to fund his idiocy and his campaign staff/family.
They need to find a new job.
Is the misuse of a word so grievous that Akin should have immediately withdrawn from the race even after he apologized less than 24 hours later and explained that he used the wrong word? What kind of outrageous standard are we setting for out candidates?
YOU are giving "them" their best weapon...a opponent that wants approval from the opposition.
Sorry sir, it’s implied in the statement: that “the body,” meaning the uterus “has ways to shut that down,” that’s a special or magical property of the uterus, hence: MAGIC UTERUS. It’s not a giant leap of logic. We (Republicans, conservatives, constitutionalists, pro-lifers) will be beaten to death with this if we support him. He has to put his ego aside and do what’s right to advance the conservative cause, otherwise we will lose the seat plain and simple.
You can sum-mate it with the tripe and personnel attacks you've been posting against a candidate most from MO have chosen.
Hurry up the election is in a couple of months.
“No thanks. Flushing money down the toilet is not something I find financially prudent. Any money I may give during this campaign season will go to someone who has a chance to win.....”
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Different strokes for different folks. Immediately after Akin’s gaffe I was doing my part to get him to withdraw. He didn’t and is therefore still our candidate. He has a superb record as a very conservative congressman. And now it is quite clear that HE OWES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO THE GOPe. Since he’s in and I want a conservative dominated Republican caucus leading the Senate, I’m supporting him.
After my initial reservations, I got over my negative feelings and have donated to his campaign and will do so again. I urge anyone who wants to see McCaskill out and a conservative in to do the same if your finances allow.
http://www.akin.org/campaign/lower-taxes-lower-regulation
If you don’t feel like supporting him, fine—just don’t join the GOPe in waging jihad against him.
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