To me the part about saving one unborn life is key. I don't know Mr. Akin nor do I know what is in his heart, but I do know that his incompetent campaign resulted in the loss of one of the most winnable Senate seats in 2012. It can be argued that the way he conducted his campaign become a drag on, or at least a distraction for, other Senate candidates as well as the Presidential campaign. Since the only real influence the Senate has on the abortion issue is in confirming Supreme Court nominees, it is quite likely that he contributed more to continuation of legalized abortion than to stopping it.
we’re not in the same universe. i’m guessing your one of the attackers who tried to sink akin from the get go. i’m so proud i was one stood by him all the way. in fact, i did zero for romney while my main effort outside of walker and wisconsin in 2012 was to support akin when nobody else in the r-party establishment would.
just a very few assertions which i can support with hard evidence will serve to impeach your argument.
the GOP-e in missouri was and is a mess. and not only withdrew all support for akin but actively tried to destroy his campaign. in otherwords they wanted him to lose.
the big cities in missouri are very leftist. and they love mccaskill. akin had a very hard road to go.
the libertarian leftists are very big and militant in that state. they took a big chunk of grass roots support away from a God fearing conservative like akin.
nationally, conservative senate canditates did far better as a group then all of the rest GOP-e establishment candidates. so is your argument that conservatives only drag down liberal republicans while helping themselves. i’d like to hear a justification of that. the whole r party was basically dragged down by romney, who of course, instead of providing immediate aid and support as any top of the ticket candidate should have, he immediately attacked akin, along with the other GOP vampires like rove, after his clumsily worded but correct defense of the unborn.
aside from all that, imo, it is better to go down with a truely conservative, God fearing, candidate, than to win with a leftist republican in *any* election at any level. examples abound. look at damage boehner, mcarthy, or mccain, graham, kirk, murkowski, snowe, et al are doing to the nation and what is left of the r-party.
akin damaged the unborn? you think a romneyite would have helped the unborn? only twisted, leftist thinking could make that case. akin raised the issue to national attention when the GOP-e wanted to bury it. attention can only help the unborn. that is why the abortionists want to keep it secret.
and even if your case made perfect sense to me, our Lord demands that we do the right thing as He gives us the wisdom to see it. not the expedient thing given the circumstance He provides. ends are never justified by immoral means and our Lord will not support us as individuals or as a covenanted people if we compromise with evil.