Posted on 08/21/2012 1:20:36 PM PDT by Kolath
@nbcnightlynews : MT @chucktodd: Romney now officially calls on Akin to exit the race. He had been implying that, but hadn't directly said it. Now, he has
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Why do you think the Dems gave over a million dollars to Aiken’s campaign?
Akin and his fans think he can win despite this and that there won’t be any repercussions on other races. For Akin’s sake, they’d better be right. If this election goes bad because of this, forget mud, Akin’s reputation in the party will be about one step above guys like Mark Foley.
I’m extremely upset by the meddling. I don’t curse, but today I do.
Missourians despise the meddling. There WILL be backlash.
You are right. Watch Romney’s number drop with conservatives.
Just heard about that today (where have I been?). And this is just the beginning. They are desperate to preserve Obamacare.
It’s not meddling. Don’t you realize that this is getting national coverage and affects all of us?
Whether he wins or not (and I don’t think he will - he posted a distorted poll, and a more objective one already shows him losing), he’s going to give the Dems something to harp on from now to the election. And in fact, by the time the election rolls around, even Missourians won’t vote for him. They may not vote for McCaskill, but they will essentially do so by not going to the polls if Akins is the candidate.
He should leave now, except that his giant ego is blocking the exits.
Aren’t we all supposed to be at the hate Romney meetings?
After all, it’s Free Republic.
The gop is messing with the conservative base again. They don’t own us and will not put up with much more from them. They bettter back off.
Leading social conservatives rally to Akin’s defense
Posted by
CNN Political Reporter Peter Hamby
Tampa, Florida (CNN) – While much of the Republican universe spent Monday condemning Missouri Senate hopeful Todd Akin for his comments about “legitimate rape” and abortion, one of the nation’s most prominent conservative organizations rallied to his defense.
Two top officials from the Family Research Council said the Missouri congressman is the target of a Democratic smear campaign and chided those Republicans who have condemned Akin.
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Connie Mackey, who heads the group’s political action committee, said the group “strongly supports” Todd Akin.
“We feel this is a case of gotcha politics,” Mackey told reporters in Tampa, where the Republican National Committee was gathering ahead of the party’s convention next week. “He has been elected five times in that community in Missouri. They know who Todd Akin is. We know who Todd Akin is. We’ve worked with him up on the hill. He’s a defender of life.”
“Todd Akin is getting a really bad break here,” she added. “I don’t know anything about the science or the legal implications of his statement. I do know politics, and I know gotcha politics when I see it.”
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins fired back at Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, a leading moderate voice in the GOP who called Akin’s remarks “outrageous” and encouraged him to drop his challenge to Democrat Claire McCaskill.
“He should be careful because based on some of his statements there may be some call for him to get out of his race,” Perkins said of Brown. “He has been off the reservation on a number of Republican issues, conservative issues I should say. His support among conservatives is very shallow.”
Mackey said that Republicans calling on Akin to apologize or drop out should get “backbone.”
Perkins and Mackey, though, pulled their punches when asked about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has also denounced Akin.
“The Romney campaign as well as now Paul Ryan have made very clear where they stand in the issue of life,” Perkins said. “We are not going to allow people to divide conservative voters in this process. We are going to keep our eye on the big picture.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/20/leading-social-conservatives-rally-to-akins-defense/
Clare McCaskill has strongly defended Akin’s right to be on the ballot.
Planned Parenthood has also supported Akin’s ballot position.
Look who agrees with you.
I honestly think Romney waited for Rush Limbaugh to call for Akin to leave . . Rush has a lot of credibility with conservatives. much more than Akin and his fellow kooks.
Look, I was here even before the impeachment wars with Billy Clinton. The press defended Clinton tooth & nail.
With Obama, the press treats him as a deity. They will do ANYTHING for their deity, including making Akin the defacto Republican nominee.
I chronicled the attacks on Sarah Palin in her first month as a candidate. This Akin thing is going to make that look like afternoon tea at the London Ritz.
Akin is totally deluded.
I’m extremely upset by the meddling. I don’t curse, but today I do.
Missourians despise the meddling. There WILL be backlash.
You are right. Watch Romney’s number drop with conservatives.
McCackle spent her cash on Akin well, then....
That is what I thought too when I read the headline. Why does he feel the need to comment on a State election. It sounds like he is pandering... again.
It’s no longer a local Missouri election. Akin’s careless, boneheaded gaffe has made it a national issue now, one that will affect, to one degree or another, every single House and Senate race in the country.
If you can't bother to read any of the threads that's been hashed out or just Google it, that's on you.
She wanted him, she got him. Now we see why.
Romney really oughta figure out he needs to make Akin at LEAST a good an offer as old McCashill has...
Yup. The stupid f**ktards, not the Conservatives, the Republicans, think that the left will like them once they trash Akin, but all they will have accomplished is helping move the abortion debate farther left. Now any Republican that says it's immoral to kill a baby, even in the final trimester will get the Akin treatment by both parties, with mitt the abortionist cheerleading the whole thing.
These people attacking Akin are more worried about being not appearing liberal enough and to hell with the victims of the ongoing genocide.
You are right.
So all Conservatives are supposed to fall in lockstep with GOP groupthink??? Next are you going to tell me I must agree with Romneycare because I’m a Republican!
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