Christie should`ve insisted on no “hug” pics or anything other than the two reviewing the damage. I knew from the start this was going to cause Romney problems.
Mourdock and Akin were a disaster with their fateful “rape” remarks. They were cruising to victory and would have easily won were it not for those. Why... WHY even go there?
Have to do MUCH better with the recruiting.
Seriously, 2 Senate seats just flushed down the toilet because these idiots felt the need to blather on about the rape/incest abortion issue. Just shut the **** up. "I oppose abortion in all cases except the life of the mother". Period. Leave it at that. Don't spew a bunch of garbage about God's intent or women's bodies shutting down to prevent pregnancy. It's just amazing how awful some of these "grass roots" Senate candidates are. If we can't nominate someone good, then let's go with the establishment suit and at least take the seat.
And another thing, when the polls show clearly that a clownish Senate candidate like Akin can't win after making stupid statements....stop propping him up and insist he get the heck out of the race. We could have won that seat with almost anyone. Claire was that unpopular. And here she got 6 more years because morons like Huckabee raced to his defense and encouraged him to stay in the race.
“They were cruising to victory and would have easily won were it not for those. Why... WHY even go there?”
Because they were both slow witted and unprepared for the job. When a reporter asked them a question CLEARLY designed to make THEM look extremist, they were both too slow mentally to immediately answer by talking about the dems as extremist for totally supporting abortion for any reason at 9 months.
It never occured to the dim bulbs to say “Im glad you want to explore the extremes of this issue, if you are interested in where the extremes lie,,how about Obama sponsoring and fighting for the killing of babies that SURVIVE an abortion.”
Do that once or twice in a live venue, and see how often they ask again.
Akin and Mourdock were very poor choices. Other pro-lifers would have handled those slow pitches handily.