He needs to withdraw immediately so we can put someone in there with time to campaign. Aken is toast. No one with an IQ over room temperature would vote for him now.
Is Akins that stupid?
I see the squishy segment of the GOP is the first to call for him to withdraw.
The dumb slut vote is VERY important in Massachusetts.
Agree totally.
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Daughter rape = bad
Offering to auction them off for marriage in front of a televised crowd = good
I get it. /sarc
Time for Akin to “spend more time with his family”.
Everyone should be hoping Akin drops out. This seat was likely Republican, and now it’s a toss up, at BEST.
Can he be replaced on the ballot? I remember someone saying 8/21 is the deadline.
Akin has made a gaffe that no Republican candidate can ever recover from. Yes, if he was a Democrat he would get a pass. A Democrat can say just about anything and the lamestream media will provide cover. It isn’t fair, but life isn’t fair.
It doesn’t matter how good of a candidate Akin might have been. He is now toast. If he does not step down, then the Democrat will win the seat.
Plus, Akin will pull down conservative candidates all over the country. Every Democrat running for any office in the U.S. will be running ads with Akin as the poster child for the conservative “war on women.”
Is Sarah Steelman still available?
Hey dude. YOU ARE NOT a resident of Missouri - I am. YOU HAVE NO SAY on who is worthy of office or not in this state. Only those of us that vote here in Missouri do.
We recently had a primary where Mr. Akin easily won. I personnally voted for Steelman because of Palin’s endorsement. However, Akin won the primary, and fairly so. He, of all three candidates, ran NO negative ads. He won based upon his conservative record.
The people of Missouri are sick of McRaskil and this “slip of the tongue” will not keep him from beating her. So, give it a REST. The man is an ARDENT pro-lifer.
He WAS NOT attempting to say rape was OK. He used to WRONG word...as many folks do...when he said “legitimate”...he meant “forcible” rape. I believe the man is very pro-life and doesn’t think there should be rape/incest provisions to allow abortion. Often, the rape/incest provisions are a wedge issue when the reality of the matter is that the pregnancy rate for “forcible rape victums” is much lower than that of normal consensual intercourse. This isn’t rocket science.
The ONLY people calling for his dropping are moderates/liberals. Like I said, I voted for Steelman because of Palin’s endorsement, but have no problem with Akin. Shut up and get off the man’ back. Fools like you are hurting him (someone the is pro-God, pro-Family...FR values) and should get the zot.
KNOCK IT OFF NUMSKULL. Worry about your own state of residence. We WILL eliminat McRascal and do so with Akin. The only other option left, should he resign, would be up to the party establishment. I DO NOT TRUST GOPe types to pick an appropriate candidate. So can the talk.
Paging Sarah Steelman...
Please respond to a clean-up in the GOP-e Dept...
Part of Akins’ difficulty is that he obtusely used the word legitimate instead of the word actual. The worst part of his double gaffe was the off-the-wall notion that a woman’s body can turn off a pregnancy at will. Where did he get that???
From Wikipedia:
“In 12 years in the state house, Akin voted for carrying concealed weapons, voted against the parks and soils sales tax, voted against the 1993 tax increase and education spending increase. Akin sponsored legislation to prohibit casino companies from contributing to Missouri state lawmakers. In 1995, he fought Democrat Governor Mel Carnahan on state-funding for abortion, which Akin opposed.”
So, Masshole liberal RINOs who are against gun carry rights, and pro- abortion and proromneyobamacare (one of who is for state’s rights only if it’s what he wants federally)— they drift left MSM in their message to save that everloving “middle of the road” undecided. Big damn help. Akin is, by the way a graduate of divinity school and has industrial management experience and a solid social conservative background. Perfect target for RINOs
This illustrates a key difference between us and the liberals.
If this same s***storm was going on about a liberal, they’d close ranks and none of them would speak out against that liberal.
We actually hold our own to our standard. We want them gone if they are found lacking.
Well there ya go: the great defender of the conservative cause, Scott Brown.
LOL.
You bedwetters are such sheep.
Akin needs to take one for the team and bail out. You can’t tee off 80% of women and thinking people and expect to survive politically.
Not enough people are going to listen to his nuances for speaking stupidly and the media will insure his defeat if he is stupid enough to stay in.
Obama's audio was played, McCaskill's comments repeated but no mention of Romney's statement.
The MO GOP need to give Akin the PUSH he deserves.
Akin apoligized for a less than well thought out statement - good for him. Now where is Scott Brown’s apology, or is he just another RINO trying to help eat our own and give the MO race to the Dims. Akin had enough backbone to apologize, now the GOP should get behind the apology and Akin. Where’s Scott Brown’s backbone, that guy whom the Tea Party helped before he turned his back on them. Given Brown’s votes in the Senate, his opinion on the issue helps me get behind Akin.
Maybe things have changed since mid-morning. But at that time there were a whole series of people “calling for Akin to get out” of the race but when Akin was asked about it stated that not a single one of those folks had called him and asked him, in confidence, to bow out. I hold these folks who are posturing for the media but not having the guts to make a personal one-on-one call to Akin in very low regard.
Why such a so very widespread lack of character?