[Marie Antoinette]

No.

[Dr. Sivana]

Murkowski has a large following among non-conservatives, Steelman doesn’t appeal to those people, they’ll just pick McCaskill.

[Argus]

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.

[EGPWS]

Why can't Steelman pull a Murkowski in MO??

Is it even possible for anyone else to do this?

[Charles Henrickson]

A Steelman write-in would have no chance whatsoever. I’m here in Missouri.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Akins only won the nomination because a large number of Democrats crossed over to vote for him in response to McCaskill's dog-whistle ads describing what a scary right-wing extremist Akin was, and how he was too extremist for Missouri.

[donozark]

No one knows the procedure. Still waiting (since yesterday) for a MO attorney to step forward. Reviewed SOS site to no avail.

Doubt a write in campaign would work.

[RIghtwardHo]

Alaska is just too unique and much smaller. Just wouldn’t work.

[Maelstorm]

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.

[Inconvenient Truthteller]

Good idea.

[reg45]

No, because she is not well enough known.

[Spaulding]

As long as voters remember that McCaskill was national co-chair of the Obama campaign, and also the co-sponsor with Barack of Senate Bill 2678, February 2008, a bill to address the issue Republicans would like to bury, the ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’. For all the dishonest Democrats and Republicans who have buried the Constitution, remember that McCaskill was at the heart of it. Her senate bill to pretend to validate McCain's eligibilty did not pass, which may suggest a few senators willing to acknowledge the Constitution, even if only one of them was willing to stick his neck out and ask the question publically. Nathan Deal of Georgia wrote an open letter to the White House in 2009 questioning Obama’s eligibility, and was answered with the discovery in ten year old IRS filings of some previously approved deduction that now incurred the ethics charges filed by the House Ethics Committee. Deal resigned and is now Governor of Georgia.

Senator McCaskill was co-sponsor of Senate Resolution 511, in April 2008, signed by every Senator except John McCain, which includes the testimony: “My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.”

These are facts. Most of what you read is sophistry. The Constitution does not contain definitions (one minor clarification of the common-law definition for another word) and anyone stating “because it was not defined by the Constitution” either didn't read the Constitution, or is trying to confuse you. Barack never once claimed to be a natural born citizen, as required by The Constitution to be our president. No amendment has ever passed, though there have been over twenty five attempts, such as Orrin Hatch’s effort to make Schwarzenegger eligible and Conyer’s two attempts to legitimize Obama between 2003 and 2006.

No doubt Akin said something stupid, but McCaskill is an anti-constitutional crook.

[alstewartfan]

Akin was just on Hannity’s show, and he was a jumble of incoherence. He MUST step aside. Bob