Good take on this!
What Akin said is peanuts compared to the gigantic mistake those who want to twart the Primary to push “their” 3rd place darling.
Looks like Akin has a damn near perfect conservative score. Replacing with a RINO must be coming from DU.
In 2 1/2 months the MO. voters will be, like the rest of the country, looking at the shipwrecked economy, not a silly little fauxpas, that not everyone thinks is incorrect. What was said does not compare to or diminish his willingness to stand his ground.
Folks need to put the petty dem inspired in-fighting to bed and get back to acting like conservatives with a backbone.
They would have been far better off handling this privately. If they had circled the wagons by just saying that they disapproved of his statement, he has apologized, and now it is time to move on to issues that actually affect the voters of Missouri, e.g., Obamacare, the economy, unemployment, debt and deficit, etc. Hell, 71% of the Missouri voters want Obamacare repealed--an actual vote not a poll. McCaskill supported Obamacare and doesn't want to repeal it. She supported the stimulus. On every issue she seems to be in the minority in MO.
Akin can win if his fellow Reps stop attacking him. And the pettiness of disinviting from the convention is disgusting. The guy is a sitting Congressman yet he is come kind of pariah. He has 6 kids with three sons serving in the Marine Corps. He is squeaky clean. One verbal gaffe, which I don't find as horrendous, as the MSM make it out to be, is enough to end a 24 year political career.
Self-censorship is the worst censorship. Every Rep will be walking on egg shells afraid to say anything that might offend women, gays, minorities, and ethnic groups. The Dems have us exactly where they want us--a neutered political class afraid of its own shadow. In the meantime, they can say whatever they want. It's a big f***ing deal.