Posted on 08/23/2012 11:55:47 AM PDT by TonyInOhio
Todd Akin hasn't had many high-profile supporters with him in the trenches this week, but Mike Huckabee became an important and emphatic exception Thursday afternoon, sending a message to his own supporters accusing Republican elites of trying to drum a good man out of a winnable Senate race. Here's what Huckabee said in an email to his list this afternoon:
Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren't rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded and bleeding, a casualty of his self-inflicted, but not intentional wound.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
How about we figure out how to win? Loose lips sink ships. How about we be harmless as doves and wiser than the serpent? We already know the JonStewart media is the campaign advertising arm of the DNC, why feed them. We already know this election was by design by the GOP-e to get those coveted independents... and I can tell you we would not even be fretting over Akin had he been wiser.
So now what? Akin has lost whatever money the nationals had earmarked for him... I do not have the kind of money for him to make up that loss... Akin can do nothing for the 'pro-life' movement if he cannot win. When did conservative stop taking responsibility for their own actions.... blaming every one else for what Akin did all by himself does not cut it with me.
Yep, in other words, “everybody’s stupid except ME!”
Don’t confuse the faux conservatives with facts. It just gets them agitated.
I understand your point of view and until a few minutes ago felt the same way, but you know what I am sick to death of conservatives treading lightly............it has gotten us nothing.
It is time.
We stand.
We fight.
Or we get the hell outa the way.
You do what you need to do, I on the other hand will stand, fight and I will not get the hell outa the way.
“Want to know why the Republican Party is in such trouble? I believe it comes down to one word: courage.”
Well said, sir. Well said. And you even said it nicely.
Unfortunately, courage is a character attribute in very short supply these days. Especially amongst so-called conservatives.
Plain English please. Would the Akin agenda require a 12 year old to give birth under any statue or health exemption?
Given the ‘control’ by God over the womb demonstrated in Sarah, Elizabeth, and other women I can only read the claims as supposed as per what is known about tradition.
Plain English please. Would the Akin agenda require a 12 year old to give birth under any statue or health exemption?It's child abuse to allow a child to abort.. but if her life was TRULY in danger (it hardly ever is), she can have a D&C... it's always been that way to my knowledge. No one thinks mothers should die so their infants can live. In fact, that makes no sense.
Until a few days ago I was 'feeling' confident that Claire would be defeated. AND I was working through the notion of voting for the GOP-e crowned candidate.
I have a tough enough time dealing with my own inadequacies. And then having gone through the worst drought in my living memory, along with a desert like blasting heat. I never saw this coming. I blindly had 'faith' all the 'pro-life' stalwarts knew what they were doing... And here I find out I do not even understand their language.
And anyone with common sense that lives in MO will too!!! This too shall pass , if but the rest of the REpublicans and mud tossers will STOP IT!!!!!!!!
I’ve been staying out of this up until now, but... can you be THAT clueless about McCaskill’s ads?? Do you understand nothing about psychology and how it relates to political persuasion?
Being close to MO, all those *** McCaskill ads were on, here, 24/7. I don’t have to review them, I saw them probably hundreds of times. (I almost think there were more of them toward the end than the candidates own ads, with the possible exception of the Palin for Steelman ad.)
At first, being busy, I didn’t pay close attention, and the McCaskill ads “against” Akin just seemed odd. Why would McCaskill point out Akin’s “Pro Family Agenda”? Wouldn’t that be a positive in a Republican primary in Missouri? That and other phrases certainly appealed to ME as a conservative. Not really having a dog in the 3-way primary fight, though, any of the 3 (Akin, Steelman, or Brunner) were acceptable to me, as long as they could beat McCaskill.
Later, it seemed to me that Brunner was the most independent, that is, the least of a politician, of the trio. So I liked him, but he also worried me, as such candidates tend to make more political mistakes. “Tend”.
Then one night when I wasn’t busy working or engaged with my family, I found myself watching the McCaskill ads more carefully, and the purpose of the “anti-Akin” ads became VERY clear: To drive conservatives toward Akin, while at the same time setting up “the middle” for further attacks in the general election of “He’s too conservative for Missouri”. McCaskill’s ads against Steelman and Brunner did not seem to employ this sort of double intent. “Hmmm... she must think Akin is the easiest to beat. Being closer, she probably knows a lot about him that I don’t.”
Later I had my (quite conservative Catholic) wife watch one of the “anti-Akin” commercials closely too. She watched, and said, puzzled, “why does his opponent attack him and then say good things about him in the next sentence?” I said to her “Look at the small print at the end, hon’ - this is a McCaskill ad.” You could just see the light bulb come on: “Ohhhhh...”
There may have even been a triple intent of the entire McCaskill ad campaign: Having watched the whole thing play out, I’m of the opinion that McCaskill’s ads may have “nastied up” this primary beyond what would have occurred otherwise.
This was going on while the candidates legitimate ads were all trying to outdo each other in claiming the conservative ground / vote. It was not hard to see, and the candidates certainly did, that “the middle” was a relative non-factor in this Republican primary. The general election, of course, will be a different story.
In summary, McCaskill’s ads were hardly Machavellian; it’s really quite simple: McCaskill did what she could with her ads to push votes to the weakest candidate she could run against, and away from Brunner and Steelman. I’d be willing to bet a Chic-fil-a sandwich that exit polling of Akin voters would show large numbers voted for him at least in part because “he seemed the most conservative”. Aided in their impression by Claire McCaskill.
AMEN to every word!!!!!!
If the party doesn’t restore Akin’s funding it will be their fault if he doesn’t win.
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Can you provide us with any “inside” knowledge or insight as to why George Soros & crew have recently liquidated his investments in banking stocks. Don’t be too obvious when you try to elicit this information
Thanks in advance!
Agreed~~~ The same army that marched into Chick-Fill-A on appreciation day!!! GO HUCK... GO AKIN!!! If I stand for this man alone, I will!!!!
GO HUCK!!! GO AKIN!!!
God is the Creator, not man. Children are conceived by the grace of God. They are formed in the womb by the hand of God.
The children conceived in rape are still God's creation. It will always be a sin to abort them. They are not trash. They had no hand in their own creation and no hand should be allowed to destroy them.
You said it, wollypog! And they can go (AWAY) together as far as most of us here are concerned!
Here’s hoping many, many, many others are going to do the same. Comparing the numbers who voted in the primary, it seems the enthusiasm is stronger on our side. If those who felt so strongly about getting out to vote in the primary, also vote for Akin in the general, he may win.
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