Had he dropped out, we almost certainly would have won that seat. So loyalty to Todd Akin, the candidate Democrat interest groups funneled money to in the primary because they knew he was the worst option we could field, got us what? 6 more years of Claire is what it got us. An easily winnable Senate seat thrown away.
Akin's comment was repugnant to everyone
Oh stop it. Lots of people defended his comments, including here.
Bundy was correct, just clumsy in his expression.
You think wondering aloud whether "the Negro" was perhaps better off a slave than they are now is correct? Thinking such a thing doesn't make one a racist, but it does make a person kind of stupid.
Gee. Romney did far more than one stupid comment. He has a life of them. If he had dropped out we could have won the big chair.
But that lifetime if idiocy was excused just fine.
Akin lost because conservatives listened to idiots that can’t get their priorities straight. The dem is worse remember? Oh? Only SOMETIMES???
This is why the average person cannot open their mouth publicly about any protected class. The default if they do express an opinion is to default to the PC line, which represses their true sentiments. They can only express themselves honestly if they have reached a high level of understanding of the issues, so that they cannot be caught out on any statement. We are all busy, so that understanding can only be achieved by a small minority of policy wonks.
In this context, it is easy to throw stones at others, but very hard to communicate with others on these subjects, on the fly, in daily life.
How do you handle this personally? Your tongue must be raw from 'clamping down' if you take your own advice.
I think Bundy gave a reasonable Moynihanesque exposition on the negative impact of government on the 'negro family', as Moynihan expressed it. He reached back too far with his comparison to slavery, embellished by cotton and turnips. More appropriate was a comparison to the world before the Great Society. I ascribe that to his lack understanding, but overall pretty good for an average guy. His views on immigration show his limited understanding of politics and how he lets his personal experience, with Mexicans, determine his views.
Overall, it's clear that Bundy is clearly making an effort to be compassionate and that he is certainly not a racist.
So Bundy is Mau-Maued by the MSM anyway, using shop-worn race-baiting tactics playing on racial dysfunction stretching back a century and a half. You would think that we would have resolved this in our racial relations by now. We have not because Democrats like Johnson and Obama devoted themselves to setting back race relations, not because average sincere citizens express their sincere opinions. Of course, Democrats would say that the reason is that all white people are racist, but then we know that is wrong.
So I think that Bundy did us all a favor by saying what he did, even though he may have given Rory Reid's dad the pretext to grab his grazing lands.