[Bryan]

Even an inapt senator is better than an evil one. Too bad the RNC cut his funding.

No amount of funding could have saved him. Todd Akin's political future was as dead as a doornail the minute he opened his mouth.

Todd Akin defeated himself......lots of lessons there.

Indeed there are. Never say anything that could possibly be construed as insensitive to women or minorities. Always assume that someone has a cell phone camera pointed at you, and that person has an MSNBC producer on speed dial. Akin could have won that race very easily. Mourdock also could have won his own Senate race in Indiana, and Romney could have beaten Obama.

All of them beat themselves by saying something stupid.

[Bryan]

See above post.

[muawiyah]

Even after having been warned that he was hurting the Party, RNC Chairman Preibus REFUSED to dispatch learned counsel to both those candidates to guide them away from interviews and events where they'd be baited into speaking too frankly.

With Preibus acting as Romney's intercessor on Earth, it's clear that it's really Romney's fault!

[Linda Frances]

I bet people in Mo will trade Akins now for mccaskill. My friends in St Genevieve were smart enough to know he was better, no matter how damaged than any democrat.