Posted on 09/27/2012 5:20:20 AM PDT by Lakeshark
Tuesday, September 25, was the last day U.S. Senate Candidate Todd Akin (R-MO) could withdraw from the race. And he isn't going. So the GOP standard-bearer is Todd Akin; he needs our help, and we need to support him. Yes, he made a stupid remark, and as a result, what should have been an easy Senate win turned into a hotly contested race. He apologized profusely, but rather than come to his aid, Republicans of every stripe denounced him and called for his resignation. This is idiotic.
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So while we are twisting in the wind over a single dumb comment, we are denying ourselves a principled conservative -- someone who will fight the unglamorous but necessary battles that all the others ignore. It is way past time we quit allowing the radical left and their obsequious, squishy Republican friends to determine who our candidates are and by what yardstick they are measured. They are hypocritical and disingenuous in their criticism -- a tactic the left uses to deflect attention from its indefensible agenda.
We should be ashamed of ourselves. Go out and support Akin, and if someone challenges that stupid statement he made, ask him about the "bump in the road," America's "57 states," or any one of the long list of other astounding Obama/Biden stupidities. Ask your challenger if he still supports those idiots.
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This incident reminded me how badly we need a genuine conservative party. Republicans like Rove, Kristol, Will, etc. just suck.
It's not the single, dumb rape comment that may well cost Akin the seat. It's the other comments he's made and which he will make that could do it.
I hope he can pull this one off.
I’ve not heard of any other comments, so kindly enlighten me. I have heard he is a fine conservative, and will stick by that until proven otherwise.
The incident reminds me of how the people turned their back on Jesus Christ. I am not saying Akin is Jesus Christ obviously, but there were a bunch of traitors to conservativism during the whole BS ordeal. Most surprising are the traitors on Free Republic who wanted to kick a great conservative to the curb. Hopefully they are so embarrassed by their behavior that they will never treat another conservative as badly.
are there any other Republicans or Tea Party members running for office?
If you wouldn’t mind rephrasing, I’m not understanding what your question is asking.
folks....Akin is the guy....we need another pub in the Senate...lets get this done....
nothing Akin has ever said is worse than what Reid, pelosi,bammey, etc have said, and done...
i thought we already have let it go...who keeps bringing it up?
Are you going to rephrase the question that made no sense?
I would like to see Akin win, but I don't think he will and I think that taking the Senate is too important. I would rather see money spent on keeping Republican seats in Massachusetts and Nevada and Arizona, and taking Democrat seats in Wisconsin and Connecticut and Montana and Virginia and North Dakota. Those are a lot of seats in play, and a finite amount of money available. I suggest spending it where it will do the most good and not on a candidate as inept at Akin is.
Hopefully we can now declare the “Akin watch party” officially over. He is our candidate, period. Let us move forward and try to get him elected. Six more years of ministration by the miscreant Mother McCaskill is a fate worse than death...
They shriveled like raisins under the magnification of liberal media memes. Spineless, gutless, unprincipled chickens, intellectually lazy, unwilling to pause and study the meaning and intent of Akins' remarks. How Malkin and Levin et al are counted among them is beyond me. Rove and his ilk, not so much. We do not deserve to live in a free country if we indulge ignorant, lemming-like behavior when it comes to protecting and defending the lives of innocent unborn citizens. Akin's got more principle than the bulk of the population. He ought to be counted as one of the best conservative candidates possible. [He's already planning jails and execution chambers for all those raped women who abort their children! /s]
Yep, it’s up to the people of Missouri now. What happens in this election McCaskill vs. Akin is going to tell us a lot more about the voters of Missouri than it does about Todd Akin.
Thanks, gramps. Happy to be here.
folks....Akin is the guy....we need another pub in the Senate...lets get this done....
We need at a net pickup of at least 4 seats to gain a majority. Maine is lost so that means we need to pick off Democrats in 5 states. Two current Republican seats are vulnerable, so that total may rise. Given the job before them, I don't see backing Akin as a wise use of limited funds.
nothing Akin has ever said is worse than what Reid, pelosi,bammey, etc have said, and done...
Probably. But that's not how he's being painted, thanks to his own words.
Mark switched over and got with the program on his Facebook site yesterday, citing DeMint, Santorum, and Gingrich. Palin (at least her C4P site) still won't quit bagging on Akin though.
I disagree with you on that. Regardless of how Akin does, Romney will take Missouri.
Funny how people who have NO vote for or against Akin think they are the smartest person in any given room.
It's a curse, let me tell you.
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