Hope he can go find a nice career in the private sector...or maybe Romney can make him the ambassador to......Nepal?
Posted on 08/20/2012 11:54:59 AM PDT by GOPinCa
Hearing this from several sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Needs to be now. No reason he can’t step down this afternoon and get this media firestorm behind everyone.
He needs to take one for the team and step out of the race. What he said was indefensible.
Get someone that can win in there. McCaskill is a sitting duck. We don’t need another Sharon Angle race.
Eric Erickson from Red State is tweeting is hearing this: Breaking: Senior GOP official: Akin advisors making preparations for a withdrawal tomorrow.
Eric Erickson from Red State is tweeting and hearing this: Breaking: Senior GOP official: Akin advisors making preparations for a withdrawal tomorrow.
GOOD!
Probably a way of pushing him. Hope it works. however, VERY serious damage has been done. This will be the meme all the way to Nov whether he withdraws or not. They are already all over Ryan.
What Akin has cost us is incalculable.
The runner-up in the primary was John Brunner. (Sarah Steelman finished third.) Then there are two former senators available: Kit Bond and Jim Talent.
He needs to go NOW. Not tomorrow. NOW.
I pray this is true. I hope McCaskill is not preparing another million dollars to convince him to stay in.
Fool! Had a seat in the upper house of congress in the bag and he blew it!
I disagree. If he quickly drops out, this becomes old news quickly.
More proof that the Democrats and the liberal media control the Republican Party.
Actually, there are at least four former senators available: Bond, Talent, John Ashcroft, and John Danforth. Of those, the only one under 70 is Jim Talent.
Thank GOD!!!!
There are bound to be some procedures already in place. It’s not like someone dropping out is unprecedented or unthinkable.
At the least, the procedures in case someone unexpectedly passes away should apply.
Bond or Danforth would be pretty much an automatic win for the GOP, although I doubt they’re interested.
I agree with that
Obama's audio was played, McCaskill's comments repeated but no mention of Romney's statement.
The MO GOP need to give Akin the PUSH he deserves.
I read that they have to file tomorrow, so the GOP better have somebody lined up.
You’re talking to people in a state who have in the past elected a dead guy for governor.
Whew!!!
We dodged a speeding bullet this time! Thank goodness Akin is an honorable man. I thought he would be.
Doesn’t matter when he officially withdraws. As long as the news is that he will, the story will start winding down.
Hopefully it will all be forgotten by Nov. and the good people of MO will have someone they will enthusiastically support rather than someone they would be holding their noses to support.
I’m at the library where about a half a dozen volunteers (women in their 50’s?)are saying stuff like “that right-winger” and “ligitimate rape”
Now, all you bedwetters, WHO will be the NEXT conservative you throw under the bus to appease the media??????????
The people in MO should have listened to Sarah.
The somebody should be Jon Brunner, the second place primary finisher. If they pass over him, that’s a slap in the face to him and his supporters and he would probably be within his rights to mount a legal challenge. Don’t need that. The party needs to be united.
Missouri voted a Democrat legitimate corpse (Carnahan) into the governorship. Surely the Republicans can find a live Republican for the Senate to replace the current walking dead candidate should he choose to withdraw.
On another read, someone posted that the withdrawal has to take place by tomorrow (11 weeks prior to Election Day) but that the GOP would have a few weeks to name his replacement.
On another read = On another thread
Anyone but that idiot. He alone cost himself with that illogical thinking.
Just the ones that make incredibly stupid statements that can cause an election in a must win State to go south.
Let the Dems hold on to the Biden’s and expect more from our own.
My God, you're such a pantywaist defeatist.
Do you still have a pair? Check, okay?
I'm so sick and tired of so-called conservatives who won't take the time to take the fight to the Demonrats, instead you're worrying over a damn GAFFE.
You want a gaffe-free conservative? There ISN'T one, honey. Not ONE.
And do you wanna KNOW why they're all over Ryan? Because people like you act like they've got something to whine about!
You present yourself as someone who has been around a long time....well, if you have, then you know that the liberals will lie, insinuate, and extrapolate all sorts of false intimations from ANY statement...and you would also know the only way to defeat such crap is to FIGHT BACK, not retreat.
The gutlessness is amazing.
Better wake up and realize that this is political ultimate fighting. You absolutely cannot send a candidate who has mortal, self inflicted wounds into the ring against a seasoned and vicious opponent and expect to win?
Oh bull! He made a moronic comment that for a politician in his position, in this day and age is the kiss of death. Had you or I made the same comment we could have been politely corrected but this guy isn't just Joe Schmuck, like me. He's running for the US Senate...as a Republican. If he hasn't learnd by now that there's no 'take backs' for stupid comments by Republicans then he's too dumb to sit in the Senate. Who does he think he is? Joe Biden?
When someone jumps in a pile of manure, rubs it all over their face, and then starts eating it, then it is time to throw that person under the bus.
Because, if you don’t do it quick, they will drag you into the manure with them.
Akins created his own problem by making one of the stupidest statements in the history of politics. Why let him drag the entire GOP into the manure with him?
The runner-up,would be reasonable. I read that all of the others suggests (former senators) are over 70.
[He needs to take one for the team and step out of the race. What he said was indefensible.]
He needs to take one to the head by his own hand after writing an apologetic suicide note.
That’s good. It would probably be better if they could do it right away, just for PR purposes.
“The somebody should be Jon Brunner, the second place primary finisher. If they pass over him, that’s a slap in the face to him and his supporters and he would probably be within his rights to mount a legal challenge. Don’t need that. The party needs to be united.”
If your main goal is party unity, then the replacement should be neither Brunner nor Steelman. But I think that if Steelman or Brunner is selected, the other candidate can be an adult, accept it and quickly endorse the replacement. Both Brunner and Steelman have a future in the MO GOP, and it would be stupid of them to be remembered as the sour-grapes ex-candidate who helped McCaskill get reelected.
It’s a mere excuse that others weather. The pro-abortion wing of the Republican party wants him out because he’s too pro-life.
I wonder if it is not too late for this guy to withdraw from the Senate race and instead run for his current seat in the House of Representatives where he may have a marginal chance of winning assuming no women live in his district.
“That’s good. It would probably be better if they could do it right away, just for PR purposes.”
Hope he can go find a nice career in the private sector...or maybe Romney can make him the ambassador to......Nepal?
“We don’t need another Sharon Angle race.”
Or another Ken Buck race, a la Colorado 2010.
Earlier I posted about Akin:
“Sigh. A repeat of the disaster in Colorado in 2010, when that Tea Party favorite fool Ken Buck lost a sure Senate pickup against a weak candidate and a Democrat party divided by a divisive primary.
Buck simply could NOT keep his size 12 cowboy boots out of his mouth. Every time they got yanked out, why they instantly got sucked back in, as if boot and mouth were the opposite polls of a powerful magnet.
Buck clearly wouldn’t listen to his advisers, he could not stay on message, and he thought he was smarter than the press (which he wasn’t). Completely infuriating. I could have done better than Buck.
Buck at least had an excuse though: he’d never run for office beyond Weld County District Attorney. No such excuse for Akin.
Almost any Republican can win a contest in this country if the electorate isn’t completely dominated by leftist Progressives. Scott Brown in Massachusetts demonstrated that. Brown stayed on message. He had five talking points and never, ever deviated from them. No matter what question was asked, he answered with one or more of his five talking points. Not a single gaff or gotcha was incurred from Brown. Now really, how difficult is that strategy? Just sit in a room and practice that strategy with some pretend-reporters until you can do that in your sleep. Once you have that down pat, you’ll win your election.”
Apparently Akin just sent out a tweet saying he was still in and asking for money...
Looks like he’ll have to be forced out.
Now, all you bedwetters, WHO will be the NEXT conservative you throw under the bus to appease the media??????????
Your talking about people who love Romney. Of course they are psyched to see Akin gone...why too conservative for this group.
If he does withdraw I wonder if McCaskill will be kicking herself for spending a million dollars to engineer for herself a Republican opponent who was too dumb to even be able to stay in the race for 2 weeks. Oh, well,we all learn from our mistakes even if it was with someone else’s money.
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