Posted on 09/16/2012 12:13:36 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
Dr. James Dobson, whose advice about parenting, child-rearing, marriage and faith has guided millions of Americans and whose counsel on family matters has been sought by presidents, today blasted the Republican Party for abandoning a strong GOP candidate to be U.S. senator, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin.
Dobson, the founder and president of Family Talk, which produces his regular radio program, “Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk,” told WND it is “disgraceful” that the “GOP political bosses” have told Akin to drop out of his race, have withdrawn financial support and publicly maligned the congressman.
“I regret to say that Congressman Akin has been subjected to disgraceful treatment at the hands of the GOP political bosses,” Dobson said. “They have withheld funds for his campaign, even though he won the GOP primary for the Senate seat. Karl Rove and Haley Barbour have said things about his character that are untrue. Their vicious opposition could get his Democratic opponent elected in his stead. That is curious since an Akin win could give the Senate majority to the Republicans.”
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In my neck of the woods, the soccer moms don’t just live in Johnson County, there are plenty of them on the Missouri side as well especially north of KC. They aren’t voting for Akin and that includes what few blue dog democrats are still left in the state. On this issue, the traditional numbers aren’t much help, I’m afraid.
How, exactly, do you “ATTACK BACK” against people who find the concept of “legitimate rape” and the idea that a woman can “shut down the whole thing”?
Of course, McCaskill is worse. Doesn't change the fact that Akin has made himself absolutely unelectable.. One has to wonder, why does Akin want to guarantee McCaskill the shrew's re-election?
Their husbands who are working overtime and struggling to pay the taxes to support those schools and the family are a different matter.
That leaves us with two Republican votes: one goes to Akin, one either a no vote or a McCaskill vote. The math doesn't work.
Anyone still not supporting Todd Akin in his Senate race are just not conservatives.....plain and simple
Only Liberals get so worked up over a comment AFTER the person has apologized profusely for it. If you still are upset over Akin and his comments....you probably have other issues you need to deal with also.
I have never seen so many excuses made to not vote for a solid conservative with a clean background
No one said it isn't going to be close. When those soccer moms have to return to the workplace due to the economy, they become better at math.
See if you can find the internals of the Ras poll.
Many women, hearing a comment like that, will wonder if all Republicans believe that; most liberal pro-aborts will use it to bolster their idea that men have no business in deciding women's issues.
I will admit that even I, for a moment, wondered if there are other conservatives out there with such cockamamie positions.
p.s. I am a pro-life, deeply conservative woman. I am not a liberal, or Democrat, or troll. I have spent a fair amount of time trying to convince friends that this is not the way conservatives think. I have also had to convince myself. That is some proof that the comments caused damage.
We still have both Akin volunteers posting away on FR.
Attaboy.
Let us know what a double digit whoopin feels like in a few weeks.
Well, look who’s ignorant. Missouri has a Dem Senator (McCaskell, remember, Genius) and a Dem Governor.
Thank you.
Let me reiterate
FU Akin
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Terrific argument.
Akin is a decent, principled conservative; not sure your foul-mouthed posting here warrants as felicitous an evaluation.
By the way, Akin apologized for his ill-advised remark. He has moved on — but it seems you are unable to do likewise.
Why not send him $50, or do you really prefer McCaskill?
Hardly. I”m working on what we need to do for the primaries in 2016.
The party bosses suggested that he be murdered. He knows what he’s doing even if you’ve forgotten.
I can tell you the footsoldiers on the pro-Life front line (the people who actually put themselves out there for the cause) are not happy with Akin and want him GONE. They certainly do not want him as a pro-Life spokesperson.
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Really? I thought Christians dominated the pro-Life front — and I thought that Christians believed in showing mercy and repentance to one who has stumbled and asked for forgiveness.
If making one stupid statement in an interview is an unforgiveable sin (even after apologizing for it profusely), despite YEARS of CONSISTENT pro-life voting in the House, please count me out of your particular self-righteous battalion of pro-life “footsoldiers.”
So save the pretense --
This is not what is going to happen. Conservatives (at least male conservatives) are going to vote for him, he has regained their votes. So far, so good. But, among women, young voters, and independents he has lost more ground than he can stand. He will lose. Conservatives have to get more than just the conservative vote in order to win. Akin won't.
He can be forgiven but he should not be a spokesperson for pro-Life because he HURTS THE CAUSE.
If he cannot understand that, then he is for himself, and not the cause.
They both are ... for different reasons
We do not have to choose between wrong and stupid.
We can do better than that.
He may be decent
He may be principled
But he is also a moron.
You do not promote morons to high positions (even if you personally like them). Morons hurt your cause, regardless of their best intentions.
Won't matter if Ubama gets a second term.
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