[centurion316]

The guy is a political doofus.

Not as big a doofus as those who continued to support him on his death dive all the way to the crater that was the McCaskill victory.

[Uncle Chip]

You still don’t get it —

That Missouri vote was more a vote against the strong-arming GOPe, you know the same people committing vote fraud in Mississippi, than it was a vote for Akin.

That being said I vote for his full retirement and that he stay retired.

Coming out with this book at this time shows that he is a political doofus.

[Vigilanteman]

Yep. As I recall, he had about a two week window after that "gotcha" interview where he could have opted to run for his own congressional seat and let the woman who eventually won his seat run for the U.S. Senate seat.

Even though it was clear that he had mortally wounded himself with these dumb remarks and everybody else urged him to take this graceful exit, he refused.

The guy is a poster boy for dumbness. He probably cost the GOP not only the seat in Missouri, but those in Indiana, North Dakota and Montana as well.

Any married man knows how not to be trapped by his wife's inevitable "Honey, does this dress make me look fat?" question. Except Todd Akin.