Posted on 08/21/2012 3:34:31 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s radio program for the second time in as many days, Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin attacked the GOP’s presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, for joining a chorus of Republicans asking him to withdraw from the race. Akin said that Romney had blown the controversy out of proportion and implied that he had done so for his own political gain.
Hannity asked Akin, given the number of prominent Republican politicians asking Akin to drop out including Romney, if he is even pausing to consider leaving the Senate race in Missouri.
“Let me ask you this,” Akin began. “If you were in Romney’s position, don’t you think that he may have bid this thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to?”
“Why couldn’t he run his race and I run mine,” asked Akin. “If things really look like they’re getting in trouble in Missouri than maybe — but he has just assumed.”
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Sounds like he is going scorched earth.
This “turd in the punchbowl” is getting bigger.
If it p***es off Sean Vannity and Mittens, it can’t be all that bad to stay. This reminds me of the constant drum beat when they forced Cain out.
Perhaps Akin wasn't sure if Republicans were really going to reject him. Now he can be absolutely sure.
What if the Tea Party took on its first challenge to run an independent, a la Murkowski?
I’m waiting for him to announce “I did *not* have sex with that woman...”
Funny how he’s blaming Romney and not his Democratic opponent who is keeping this in the news.
That $1.5 million the Dems spent to help him get the nomination really paid off, didn’t it?
The guy is a bonafide freaking idiot. Where the hell does he think his money is going to come from? Now that Claire is running against a kook the Dems are going to give her all kinds of money. The GOP is going to give the idiot nothing. Missouri voters will probably give him very little.
He is now a loser. If he had got out he might have salvaged a political career. I don’t see a way he will have any future now.
This Akin guy sounds more and mire like a desperate Democrat mole every time he speaks. I’d like to see how much $ he received from Yhe Tides Foundation.
“Sounds like he is going scorched earth.”
I'm waiting for him to say, "Ahhh, but the strawberries, THAT'S where I had them!"
Lamest apology/explanation since “Chick-Fil-A drive through dude.”
It’s been a gold mine for Republicans.
All they have to do is repudiate his remarks- as Akin hinself did- to appear ‘moderate’ on ‘women’s issues’.
So let Romney make a few points and drive Obama crazy.
If it walks like a duck....
So, what’s his FR nick?
Thanks Bigtigermike.
I see he got the gun to his head alright and doesn’t need any help with the trigger.
Don’t jerk it, dipsh*t.....squeeeeze.
Don’t expect Akin to shut up any time soon and just run his race.... He will be voicing his opinion here on out on numerous of issues and make more stupid comment to the glee of the media and Dems who will run them nationally
Akin or Romney, who is worse?
Romney: The Boy Scouts should admit homosexuals
8/7/2012
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2915967/posts
“I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
- Mitt Romney, 1994, former Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board member
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