To the Nattering Nabobs of Negativity
Posted on 08/24/2012 12:10:13 PM PDT by elijah1757
Prediction: If the GOP establishment doesn’t follow Republican Rep. Todd Akin’s example with a big, fat apology – to Akin – the whole party goes down in flames come November.
I don’t mean every Republican will lose, but there is great political peril in not sealing the hole in Republican armor that has opened in Missouri and instead permitting it to remain a Democratic pressure point. Further, “for the good of the country” (the mantra accompanying the party-wide chorus of pleas to Akin to drop out of his U.S. Senate race), Republicans must resume funding Akin’s viable campaign ASAP, after cutting it off in a mad fit of political pique. Finally, every one of them – the party standard-bearer, party bosses, congressional delegations, allied pundits – should come together for a group smack on the head, as in, “What were we thinking?”
I can’t recall anything in public life more widely craven and uncalled for than the open panic and bullying set off across the Republican Party by the first replay of Akin’s perplexingly ignorant interview comments on rape and pregnancy. The veteran conservative lawmaker, former engineer, former businessman and grandfather of eight recanted these remarks. He apologized for them.
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your #18 is a great post!
...the GOP-e wants the conservative vote.
but shows often, what they really think of us.
GOP-e simply wants big government power,
just like Democrats.
they don’t have any real principles.
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Diana West does. in fact, she was one of the first,
to say we should get our troops out of Afghanistan,
and she took a lot of flak for that.
once again, she shows her courage, in speaking the truth.
Oops...too late....see 4:15 news conference...
I think this is what sociopathy looks like. Saw it in Billy Jeff.
...Crap! it's all been said—Akin is either a master liar who pushed conservative causes for opportunistic political gain until he could cash in as a “bipartisan” tool of the Left like McCain or he is an evil treasonous bastard who wants Obama to have his way.
One way or another, unless he does the right thing his vanity will make him and his miserable...and an historic infamy.
I’m trying to figure out how “stupid” remarks by someone gets vblown way out of normal limits - can you say Trent Lott??? Everyone wanted that jackass one and it could not happen till he said the same kind of stupid things that ended hsi role as “leader int eh sentate” Maybe Akin has been saying stupi things and doing them as well but never got his kid of stage. Now he is no it stepped in it and has to go...repeat Trent Lott was a crony captialism fool. He is now a fool lobbist anyone want him running the senate again?
Making it 100% ensured McCaskill wins.
To the Nattering Nabobs of Negativity
The problem with Akin's statement was not that is was stupid, but that it was stunningly stupid. It's like someone saying they really think there are aliens in spaceshops hovering above the earth in space or the earth is flat. It was mind-boggling stupid. It was like the dope Dem from Georgia, Hank Johnson, who thought too many people on an island in the Pacific would make it capsize. We don't need people that dumb.
I lost a lot of vitality/spirit for the Republican party and it’s big honchos over how they handled the Akin situation. This goes for all the big ins and outs including Romney, Palin and many more. In my lifetime ,rather longtime, I have heard many unwise, uncalled for, crude, untrue, comments/stories that make a debate on what is rape and what is not rape pale as to what affects this Nation.
No. It has everything to do with his comments.
Diana West, thank you for standing up where so many others failed to. Maybe someday you'll tell us what you wrote in the sand.
I don't know if any of you heard Rush Limbaugh's comment on this, but if you didn't, I'll try as best as possible to reiterate 'about' what he said.
First, he said, -- and this is paraphrased and not verbatim -- "I don't want to join this mob."
Second, he tried to explain that Mr. Akin's comment -- and again, my version of what I believe he was saying -- was made in the zeal of topical influence; that there are those who discuss this topic in a more in depth and principled way. When one is involved in a cause, the ideals are pursued, and to exhaust the possible dimensions, it's not so difficult to go beyond the truth. In essence, in the zeal for every intellectual argument of the topic, a conjecture was made that was untrue and should have been discarded. But this doesn't mean that Mr. Akin is untrue, he was simply mistaken. Rush was though, unapologetic of Mr. Akins error.
Finally, Rush emphasized that though he did make a 'blunder,' his point was simply; in the tragedy of it all, the conceived child is certainly innocent.
But what I see in this, as well as other issues surfacing, is a judgmental spirit. What have we done with grace? What happened to the axiom, "blood is thicker than water?" Rush declared, "The Democrats circle the wagons for theirs and 'we' circle the firing squad."
What this tells me is that 'we' are becoming a party of Pharisees: clean on the outside, yet ravening inside. We throw 'our own' under the bus before it reaches the end of the assembly line because we're worried that we might be 'associated' with that --__________________fib.
If that is who we are, God help us. If this is what's going to turn the country around, a bunch of self-righteous, well-versed, well-groomed, finely tuned PRO-fessionals who disparage anyone who seems not quite 'up to their par,' I say we stand little chance.
Most of us understand that this election is beyond pivotal. This election is matter of inalienable rights or empirical servitude. If we lose this, our rights and freedom are gone - and the edges of the founding documents are smoldering as we speak (argue).
Don't you think that Almighty God might be looking for something different this time around? Maybe a little faith, a little belief, a little righteous indignation for magnitude of the cause?
Have we forgotten that our God is a righteous God and that our ultimate goal is a righteous goal, and that if we lay this before Him in faith and trust, HE WILL BRING IT TO PAST.
It will be a sorry country we have if we sail this ship loaded only with bright, talented, ambitious people and leave those who are 'not perfect' and others of lesser stature behind to serve Pharaoh.
Aren't we a throng in exodus of an increasing bondage? Are we going to leave behind those of our own 'cloth?'
What we need to hear is not, "send him to the lepers," but "man overboard, all engines stop."
When God hears that call, He will turn His face to us and - you think the last 200+ were great...!
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