Is it even possible for anyone else to do this?
Posted on 08/20/2012 10:59:27 AM PDT by cotton1706
Just asking? McCaskill still isn't liked. If Akin doesn't step down, have a conservative rally the electorate to marginalize him.
No.
Murkowski has a large following among non-conservatives, Steelman doesn’t appeal to those people, they’ll just pick McCaskill.
Murkowski was an incumbent with big name recognition and a small electorate. MO is a different story. Better to pull a Lautenberg and have Akin step down for health reasons (his brain suddenly went missing) and replace him with somebody who can mind his/her tongue and win the seat.
Is it even possible for anyone else to do this?
A Steelman write-in would have no chance whatsoever. I’m here in Missouri.
contact number for the Akin campaign office
Doubt a write in campaign would work.
Is it possible for the State GOP to force him out? Or is the decision entirely his?
Because Murkowski is a soulless slime and Steelman is not!
Why thank you for the number. Now I can call and tell him I support him and to stay in the race.
Alaska is just too unique and much smaller. Just wouldn’t work.
Hahaha! That picture still cracks me up!
Right there with ya, Charles. (StL CO)
I see now that many Rhinos like Scott Brown(I thought he’d be better) are falling over themselves to eviscerate Todd Akin. Todd shouldn’t have used the word “legitimate” but it was very clear to anyone that isn’t a far left nut he is referring to either “forcible” rape or the idea that women who have phyiscal evidence confirming their rape. The idea of course was to limit abortion since Todd Akin is prolife. Many have totally taken his comments far out of context which I expect from the left but I think many of us should take note who exactly is jumping to attack Akin because these people are the REAL problem in the GOP. They are revealing their colors. Did you hear these same folks going nuclear and calling for resignation of Biden over the “Back in Chains” comment? Did they call for the SPLC to drop the inflamatory labeling of family orgs “hate groups”. Are they aghast that left wing Senators often refer to unborn children as blobs of cells or worse?
I’m with Todd Akin. If he decides to drop out because polling makes it problematic for him then I will support the conservative selected to replace him on the ticket but this kind of BS that not just the left is putting him through but his own party is crazy. It is rare to see the left do this kind of thing. It is just stupid and is feeding a narrative that serves the left. The best thing when you have an uncomfortable story is cover it lightly cast Akin’s explaination in the best light and move on and don’t talk about it any more. This is what the left does. Hell they had a probable rapist in the White House so they hardly have a leg to stand on on rape. It isn’t as if abortion is a therapy for rape victims which is what they appear to be saying.
Sometimes I’m embarassed to be a part of this party which has so many dumb ass whimps who still respond to leftist dog whistles like pavlov dogs.
Good idea.
No, because she is not well enough known.
How much of RINO is Brunner??
None, as far as I know. Brunner has never held elective office before. All three candidates in the primary--Akin, Brunner, and Steelman--were running on a conservative platform.
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