Posted on 08/20/2012 9:51:43 AM PDT by Arthurio
Ron Johnson . . .
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
August 20, 2012 12:26 P.M
. . . calls for Akin to step aside after his controversial comments.
Akin will be on Mike Huckabee’s radio show today.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Steelman finished third in the primary. John Brunner was the runner-up to Akin. If Akin steps aside--and I'm not saying he should--but if he does, it would seem Brunner is next in line.
There might be some truth in Akin’s assertion but it is not an accepted fact as science would provide.But if conception occurs and comes to term did the victim lay back and enjoy it ? This is like accepting the speculation that man causes global warming. Here is a classic example where politicians should keep their speculations to themselves. Should he step down ? Yea unfortunately Johnson’s right, Akin should bow out.
And Ron Johnson is who???
Isn't Akin the person that Mrs Palin didn't pick?
Translation: Sarah does it again!
If that’s the case we’d have a few more Senate seats in the R column from 2010.
Saying that his words were a little clumsy is like saying the Titanic had a little scratch from an iceberg.
Exactly, hard to see how they could put the third place finisher in above the second.
R - Senator from Wisconsin
I want to see some science.
Saddest thing of all is that Akin had only to go out on the hustings. Eat some rubber chicken. Choke down some over-bark'd bbq. Drink some watered down tea. Visit a few gun shows, county fairs, kiss a few babies, and walk into Ma's office after the November election. The new Senator from Missouri. Now?
Yep.
This one’s on Huckabee, and he’s about to make it worse by trying to save Akin in an interview on his radio show.
Brunner’s probably not even a good enough substitute to beat McCaskill now—and I don’t expect him to step aside for Steelman, who would be the one with a chance still to win.
Boston Herald headline says Scott Brown (R(ino?)-MA) saying same thing
Re:”Akin takes the morally correct and courageous stance”...”
Huh? When it did become moral and courageous to be a complete moron?
The problem is that given the stakes right now we can’t afford candidates who make “clumsey” off the cuff remarks. Especially the kind that play to the Dem’s strengths, get nationalized, start dominating news cycles and throw all the other candidates out there off message. And, to add, do so a week before the national convention.
I don’t really care whether this guy was “clumsy”. What I do care about is that we’re no longer talking about the economy or the statist policies the Dems have been implementing the last four years. Those are the issues we need to be talking about, and the ones we’ll win on. This undisciplined jack@ss needs to be gone and gone right now.
Can you imagine what the media and the GOP-E would have done if Aiken HAD been Palin’s pick? She would be the main line in the story. They would have joined together and placed a gasoline-filled tire around Palin’s neck and set it ablaze. Figuratively, of course.
Kit Bond might be a decent switch, if he were interested.
All the “I misspoke” or “I was misunderstood” or “I am sorry” after the fact explanations are not going to save this guy. He needs to stand down. We need that seat.
“Steelman finished third in the primary. John Brunner was the runner-up to Akin. If Akin steps aside—and I’m not saying he should—but if he does, it would seem Brunner is next in line.”
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It’s just a gut feeling, but had Akin not been in the primary with Brunner and Steelman, I’m guessing the great bulk of Akin’s Republican voters in the primary would have instead gone for Steelman. But nobody could “prove” this one way or the other.
In any case, the question of who should replace Akin if he withdraws should be answered based upon who has the best chance of defeating McCaskill come November. And who would be a consistent supporter of the conservative agendas in the Senate.
I am a pro-life Republican who rejects abortion in cases of rape and incest. The issue is not his stance, but the argument that he made for it. To the modern ear it sounds ignorant, superstitious and callous. Worse, such a fumbling, unrehearsed justification for his position indicates that he's not really thought much about it. While frantically casting about for a response he pulled out some vague half-remembered bit of frathouse doggerel and ran with it, to his ruin and to ours if he stays.
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