“It’s idiots like Akins that give “Conservatives” a bad name.”
That’s an overeaction.
Not really. Akins is like a TV parody of a conservative ... Self-righteous, judgmental, smug, older white guy from a mostly rural state - poorly spoken and not very bright.
He’s going to become the Dem poster boy, symbolic of those backward, knuckle-dragging conservatives of the liberal imagination; in fact, he has already become that, judging by the amount of air time given to him. He’s going to be the star of the Dem show in Tampa (where they are mounting a counter-convention) and is going to drag the discussion away from the truly conservative ideas that Ryan has brought to the campaign and back into personal attacks.