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Rep. Todd Akin will hold news conference (Akin staying in the race)
KCTV5 ^ | 8-24-2012 | DeAnn Smith

Posted on 08/24/2012 1:15:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing

August 24, 2012

Rep. Todd Akin will hold news conference Friday afternoon

ST. LOUIS, MO (KCTV) -

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin will hold a news conference at 4:15 p.m. Friday.

The event will be in St. Louis County. KCTV5.com will livestream the news conference and KCTV5 News at 4 p.m. will carry it...

(Excerpt) Read more at kctv5.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: akin; akinpresser; huckabee; idiots; itsallaboutme; itsnotaboutme; missouri; mo2012; perkins; prolife; repubsneverlearn; santorum; stupidparty; voteformeorelse
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To: smoothsailing

Hope all the Akin defenders enjoy the quality of treatment they get under Obamacare. This absurd petulance and selfishness may cost us any chance at repeal.


141 posted on 08/24/2012 2:28:21 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: smoothsailing

“We’re here through November and we’re here to win”

Good look with that, Todd.

No money and treated like a leper by every other GOP running for office.

You are a loser who will be documented as such in November. You may have the distinction of being one of the few candidates to have negative coattails up ticket.


142 posted on 08/24/2012 2:28:53 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: mwl8787

NAW. By November, this will be a distant memory.

As hard as it is to see now during the present hysteria, MO is a solid red state now and will come through for Romney by +10 and perhaps +2 for Akin.

Real conservatives will now stop the carping and get behind Akin, or else we are guaranteed to have six more years of McCaskill.


143 posted on 08/24/2012 2:29:05 PM PDT by Elpasser
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To: Darth Gill

I’m voting for Akin - you’ll just split the vote


And that is what the Pro-Abort Liberals exactly want.

(Notice how they all crawled out of the woodwork once Conservative Akin supporters started posting on this thread...)


144 posted on 08/24/2012 2:29:53 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Just because someone has an "R" next to their name, does not make them a Conservative)
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To: smoothsailing; a fool in paradise

Breakin': Akin Mistakin' Stakin' For Takin'!


145 posted on 08/24/2012 2:30:12 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Truth is a Weapon

He’s staying. Either support him or help Obama. Thats what the ABOs said about Romney and now it applies here. No difference.

If ‘we’ have to suck it up, so do you.


147 posted on 08/24/2012 2:30:44 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: F15Eagle

Todd Akin = Doofus


148 posted on 08/24/2012 2:30:51 PM PDT by StevenFlorida
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To: Martin Tell
Time for a write-in candidate

I think it's too late for that to work; we need, instead, to figure out where else we can pick up a seat. Write this one off, and hope and pray the Huckleberrys don't screw up Romney's chances.

149 posted on 08/24/2012 2:31:12 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Send Sherrod Brown packing - www.JoshMandel.com)
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To: onyx; smoothsailing

Nor impressed at all but I’ll be hoping he can beat McRatskill. I heard enough too, onyx.


150 posted on 08/24/2012 2:31:12 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: KansasGirl
I agree Romney will take MO. Aikin has 60 days to go out and change 5% of the vote. McCasskill even after this is STILL under 50% of the vote and undecided of 14% are high. Undecideds generally will break for the challenger.

We shall see what we shall see

151 posted on 08/24/2012 2:32:06 PM PDT by beenaround
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CNN, MSNBC, Fox -— only MSNBC covered Akin’s presser-— and only for the few seconds he took to say he was staying in the race. After that announcement, they immediately cut away.


152 posted on 08/24/2012 2:32:12 PM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: TonyInOhio
I'm strongly conservative, ardently pro-life, and I think Akin is nuts and has done the pro-life movement real harm.

Correctamundo! If Akin is incapable of expressing himself on his core issue without screwing up, then he is simply a poor candidate. The part that gets me is how easily he fumbled the question. Instead of just coming out and saying "I support the sanctity of life no matter what", he tries to justify it by saying "oh well, it really doesn't matter since you can't get pregnant from getting raped". He didn't even have the courage to make a stand and voice his support for life.

This was the one seat that the GOP had a lock on picking up. But thanks to his Democrat supporters, Akin has screwed us over like Clinton screwed ____________. (Fill in the blank)

153 posted on 08/24/2012 2:32:46 PM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Amen Brother. The more I see him misquoted and lampooned, the more I am inclined to say “stick it to them.” Basically the victim of a high-tech lynching.


154 posted on 08/24/2012 2:33:38 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Elpasser

True conservatives will hold their noses and vote for him. However, for most of those voters it will be one of the biggest secrets of their lives. That is not a way to win though. It is a way to lose.

He can say nothing between now and the election to persuade any of those 48% who told Rasmussen they are voting for the dumb broad to change their mind and work for Akin.


155 posted on 08/24/2012 2:33:38 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: Elpasser

“NAW. By November, this will be a distant memory. As hard as it is to see now during the present hysteria, MO is a solid red state now and will come through for Romney by +10 and perhaps +2 for Akin. Real conservatives will now stop the carping and get behind Akin, or else we are guaranteed to have six more years of McCaskill.”

I think you’re right. After 2 years of the Commie in Chief I was so desparate for a win I even contributed money to Scott Brown in 2010. If I did that, I can certainly contribute to Akin. Akin made a real screw-up, but it pales in comparison to letting ObamaClair back in without a fight.


156 posted on 08/24/2012 2:34:35 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Truth is a Weapon

Even a week is an eternity in politics.

McCaskill is just as likely to say something dumb or suffer a revelation of misconduct between now and Nov.


157 posted on 08/24/2012 2:35:22 PM PDT by Elpasser
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To: SeminoleCounty

Wrong, he would have won except for his most crazy statement.
He is toast.


158 posted on 08/24/2012 2:35:31 PM PDT by rlbedfor
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To: onyx

Looks like were stuck with McCaskill through 2018.


159 posted on 08/24/2012 2:36:09 PM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: smoothsailing

This place is starting to remind me of France.


160 posted on 08/24/2012 2:36:16 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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