Romney won Missouri by 58%. Any other GOP candidate other than Akin would have won.
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Only good thing about this is with Aiken not in the Senate, the GOP won’t have the lodestone around its neck for the next 6 years of being the “pro-rape” party.
Did she win legitimately? Because the body has ways of shutting down disappointment if it’s a legitimate defeat.
What a tool.
The money McCaskill and the Dems spent making him her opponent was well spent. He succeeded in his mission. Since he lost this bad, I think it’s safe to say he would have lost even if he had never made those comments.
The pols would do well to just have a copy of a 4-D ultrasound at the third trimester handy and remind people that Democrats think it is OK to kill this.
There's a plan.
Lack of messaging discipline. Akin stepped in it huge and failed to recognize how badly. Mourdock the same.
Akin was intellectually shallow if he thought he could make a public statement like this before the election and it not cost him. He demonstrated that he was not politically savy enough to get elected.
We blew taking control of the Senatae in 2010 because of bad candidates. We did it again in 2012. When are we going to quit shooting ourselves in the foot?
As long as abortion is the number one issue expect Republicans to lose. Too many women want to be able to end unwanted pregnancies by medical means. Whether they actually do that or not should not be the paramount issue in national politics. People opposed to abortion should not force the issue into the platform unless they want to lose. Values voters are more than willing to stay home if they think their candidate isn’t pure. Sorry Christians. We losw on principles that we can’t defend.
He could`ve done a mea culpa and stepped aside after that gaffe... but no, he said God was urging him to stay in the race. No, Todd.. it was your ego. Thanks, turdball.
We need some sort of Boot Camp for our future candidates. These guys are in need of some serious training on how NOT to take the bait when the media jackals start provoking them.
Nope Akin had a ten point lead ... He destroyed himself... and his massive ego wouldnt let him quit...
But he drug the party down with him and gave the Dims a great weapon to use in the general... thanks pal.
I am all for nominating and backing strong, solid Christian Conservatives. Unfortunately Akin was an idiot trying to play the part of a strong solid Christian Conservative.
People ... if we want to win the Senate we need to avoid nominating individuals who fit the negative stereotypes that define the Left’s description of Conservatives. Todd Akin may be a good man and may share the right values but he was an incredibly weak (and not too bright) candidate. We gave this one away!!
I am all for nominating and backing strong, solid Christian Conservatives. Unfortunately Akin was an idiot trying to play the part of a strong solid Christian Conservative.
People ... if we want to win the Senate we need to avoid nominating individuals who fit the negative stereotypes that define the Left’s description of Conservatives. Todd Akin may be a good man and may share the right values but he was an incredibly weak (and not too bright) candidate. We gave this one away!!
I will.
If you live in the area, you saw the ads McCaskill had out there quoting all the GOP establishment types ranting on Akin. I think that ad did WAY more damage than anything Akin said. Their public statements were far more idiotic than anything Akin said, and they just kept doing it!
Also, the GOP refused to give him any money. (They may have kicked in a little toward the end, but no ads I saw gave them any "credit" at the end.) Okay, they were ticked because he didn't bow out. But get over it. What was more important - that he didn't do what they wanted, or that McCaskill get beaten. We have their answer.
That's the GOP establishment for you. Democrat lite.
Some of the delusional crack pots and clinical psychotics don’t understand that people like Akin Mourdok and these other freaks of nature are killing this party with their “holier than thou” bs.
Aiken destroyed himself. So did Mourdock.