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To: WILLIALAL

Todd Akin will soon join Joe Miller, Doug Hoffman, Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donell, Ken Buck, JD Hayworth et all.

All very good conservatives, just lousy candidates. Like Ronald Reagan said “I will support the most conservative WHO CAN WIN”.

Losing election makes you totally irrelevant and powerless. It only helps the liberals to gain ground. But many refuse to learn this very simple lesson, repeated again and again.


3 posted on 09/12/2012 9:27:09 AM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12
All very good conservatives, just lousy candidates. Like Ronald Reagan said “I will support the most conservative WHO CAN WIN”.

Yup. Entirely correct.

Akin remains in the race because of his own ego. If he really cared about the pro-life cause he would have stepped aside. There are plenty of pro-life conservatives who could have stepped in and won this seat. Because of Akin's selfishness and the support of some of his deluded followers, Claire McCaskill will retain the seat for the Democrats. Sad, very sad.

6 posted on 09/12/2012 9:32:13 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: entropy12
Joe Miller, Doug Hoffman, Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donell, Ken Buck, JD Hayworth et all.

How many of those had to fight the Democrat candidate as well as their own party and party elites at the same time???

9 posted on 09/12/2012 9:34:13 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: entropy12
Like Ronald Reagan said “I will support the most conservative WHO CAN WIN”.

So if we have a Marxist republican running we should support them if they poll higher than a conservative? Oh wait, we are already doing that.

24 posted on 09/12/2012 9:49:31 AM PDT by itsahoot (I'll write in Palin in 2012. That is 1 vote for Palin, 0 votes for Romney and Zer0 votes for Obama.)
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To: entropy12

Actually, each one of those you listed could/can win. there’s absolutely no reason why they can’t, other than being cut off at the knees by the GOP-E.

Todd Akin - if he had even the typical funding support that the GOP gives to its candidates at this level (i.e. I’m not talking about “special handouts” here), this race would be in the bag.

Joe Miller - could have easily won if Alaska had a “sore loser” law. Unfortunately, the GOP-E largely supported Murkowski behind the scenes when she ran as an independent after losing to Miller in the primary, splitting the vote. If she had not run, we’d be talking about Senator Miller (R-AK) today.

Doug Hoffman - This is the guy who almost took the election away from Dede Scozzafava, and would have, if the she’d have done the right thing and dropped out when she was down to 5% support, and when she finally did, ended up ACTIVELY supporting the Democrat, with the connivance of the GOP-E in that district. Hard to see how he was a reject loser who never could possibly win.

Sharron Angle - could have won as well, if she’d have had more party support.

Ken Buck - could have won, if he’d have had more party support.

J.D. Hayworth - Not really his fault he got redistricted. Also not his fault that he had to try to unseat McCain who, despite being hated by everybody, also brings home the pork to the seniors in his state.

Christine O’Donnell - about the only one on your list who really didn’t have a shot of winning, and that was as much because she was a conservative dunning in *Delaware* as it was due to her being loopy.

In each case, however, the fault for their losses lies largely with the GOP establishment who refused to support them because they were conservatives.


36 posted on 09/12/2012 10:04:25 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Remember - Allah is an ancient Arabian moon god, and Muhammed was a pedo)
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To: entropy12

Todd Akin has not lost an election in 24 years.


56 posted on 09/12/2012 10:21:13 AM PDT by kabar
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To: entropy12

2010 was one of the top republican victories in history, and you want to tell us it was a failure, a loss?

Some of the republican nominees you listed were opposed by the by the gop-e, in Miller’s case for example, the Senate gop-e came out in support of the third party candidate.

You are being dishonest when you try to portray history making victories as “losing election[s]”, because of conservatives, it is you liberals who sabotaged republican nominees, while the right wing of the party took us to a victory.

You are lying.


80 posted on 09/12/2012 11:01:58 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Aug. 27, 2012-Mitt Romney said his views on abortion are more lenient than the Republican Platform)
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