Most of them are long on reacting but short on listening. They never heard the soundbite, and probably never will, but they just like to pontificate their indignation whenever the occasion arises.
I've watched the entire soundbite.
I've tried to make this distinction before but it falls on deaf ears. Let me try again.
I know very little about Todd Akin, other than seeing him speak for 15 minutes once and thinking he was a very poor speaker. Other than that, I'd certainly prefer that the Republicans win control of the Senate in 2012.
But what I think of Todd Akin (or what anyone on FR thinks of Todd Akin) is IRRELEVANT.
That's not the issue here. It's what an informed person thinks that OTHER people that DO matter in the Missouri Senate election think about Todd Akin - say, a 31 year-old housewife in Columbia, MO, who isn't registered to a party, maybe her husband is a Republican and she votes Republican 70% of the time, maybe she voted for Bush twice but switched to Obama last election - what does SHE think of Akin now?
Politics unfortunately involves the necessity of persuading people other than yourselves of something. And as I've mentioned this is an "unrecoverable stall" you can't spin yourself out of this one with that 31 year old housewife.