Your Post #24 is spot-on.
Akin’s syncophants are already doing that on Free Republic. In their minds, this whole mess is the fault of the “GOP establishment” or “GOP elites”. Todd Akin was speaking the truth, they say.
Anyone who doesn’t follow their line of thinking must somewhow be connected with the (insert sinister laugh here) “GOP establishment”.
So then this isn't true:
"There were talking point memos sent from the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggesting language to urge Akin to drop out. Political consultants were ordered to stay away from Akin or lose future business with GOP committees. Operatives were recruited to set up a network of pastors to call Akin to urge him to get out. Money has changed hands to push him off the plank...."
What it is, though, is terrified of being picked on by the mainstream media.
Quivering, puking, bedwetting terrified.
If the "GOP establishment" had just sat back and let this thing play out for a couple of days instead of having a five-alarm public aneurysm due to their terror of being called bad names by the NYT and NBC, we'd be looking at a different - and less cataclysmic - situation right now.