Posted on 10/15/2012 9:03:07 AM PDT by Where is todays Reagan
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized two major Republican campaign organizations for not continuing to back Republican candidate Todd Akin in the Missouri Senate race.
In an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas, Gingrich called out GOP “establishment types” — Crossroads GPS super PAC and the National Republican Senatorial Committee — for pulling funding from Akin, a congressman whose comments about “legitimate rape” caused a national uproar.
“If you applied the Todd Akin rule to Joe Biden, he’d be resigning the vice presidency once a week,” Gingrich said in Akin’s defense. “You have this bizarre double standard where Biden can say the weirdest things, and people just laugh and say, well, that’s just old Crazy Joe, you know; after all, he’s only vice president.”
“In Akin’s case, the establishment types saw a chance to get rid of a trouble-maker, replace him with somebody who’d be malleable, do it in the name of winning the election — and some of the things they said were quite extraordinary.”
“I mean, Karl Rove’s not-very-funny statement ‘If Akin gets murdered, don’t look for me,’ you know, I told Karl: in the age of Gabby Giffords, this isn’t funny, this isn’t a joke, you shouldn’t be able to say this in polite company.”
The former presidential candidate cited how the NRSC supported Charlie Crist instead of Marco Rubio in the Republican Florida Senate primary. “So let’s be clear, the Senate committee doesn’t always have good judgment,” he said.
“I got so angry, because I am a genuine grassroots populist, and I have a permanent suspicion of the establishment. And I got so angry at the way they were treating Todd that I agreed to go in. I think I was the first person to go in and campaign for him, and I’m delighted now that you have a number of other people campaigning for him: Jim DeMint has come in, [Mike] Huckabee has come in, [Rick] Santorum has come in.”
Gingrich predicted that Akin would defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Look for the complete interview on Monday at The Daily Caller.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/14/gingrich-calls-out-rove-super-pac-nrsc-for-abandoning-akin-video/#ixzz29NrLgy9M
Horsehocky! That’s what I think of the crap that you’re spouting. The Republican establishment doesn’t want Akin in the Senate because he doesn’t tow the establishment line. He looks at each bill that comes across his desk in light of our US Constitution, if he doesn’t see that it follows the Constitution he doesn’t vote for it and that drives the establishment crazy. So because he has the ability to do that, he has my vote and that of all my family.
Everyone says things that are not PC, but when a republican says it, our establishment throws them out the door. Well, these are our representatives not the establishment’s, it’s time they are given a dose of reality.
Maybe he was also ruling out fake claims of rape?
Or maybe the definition from Whoopie, not Rape, rape, because the kids mother was getting paid for letting her kid be raped. Standard Hollywood fair, I suppose.
Check and see if Tokyo Rove has defunded any Log Cabin Republican campaigns, maybe you will gain a little insight.
If you want a stone cold idiot on the Science committee, you are looking in the mirror when you make a comment like that.
As long as idiots vote columns and pay no attention, we are all doomed. Do you think Akin should be on the Science committee? Do you believe raped women are less likely to conceive?
When did being conservative start to mean promoting ignorance. I understand that Akin’s supposed values are closer to mine than her opponnent’s but when the best you can do is run an absolute imbecile, conservatives lose sight of the larger goals and risk losing the big battles.
You didn’t understand the comparison at all.
Not PC?!
He thinks women are less likely to conceive if raped.
Do you want people with opinions like this making decisions on science. I don’t care that much if he is in Congress, but science.
He did not commit a gaffe. The average idiot teenager undersyands that what he said was moronic.
Yeah I did
There is no comparison
Newt is the smartest of the lot. Too bad he had marital problems that got him kicked out of the running.
Akin goofed,don’t we all at some time or other?
Better him than McCaskill, and we want him for a friend when he is elected. It doesn’t make sense not to support him
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