Posted on 08/20/2012 6:44:29 PM PDT by doug from upland
COMMENTS: Here is the real problem. My own investigation reveals the following:
1 - one night he was drunk and partying with young women; he drove off a bridge, ran away like a coward, did not get help for 8 hours, and let the young woman die in an air pocket in 6 feet of water
2 - at a conference, he brutally bit and raped a nursing home operator and told her to put ice on it
3 - in his office, he assaulted a woman pleading for a job whose husband had just died
4 - on Easter Sunday, he showed off his Bible for photo ops in the morning, then got a BJ from an intern in his office right after church
5 - he exposed himself to a woman brought to his hotel room by troopers and told her to kiss it
6 - he gave government jobs in exchange for sex
7 - he had thugs slash a woman's tires, kill her cat, and threaten the lives of her children if she testified in a sexual harassment case
8 - he and his brother had sex and cocaine parties with underage girls
9 - behind the scenes, his evil satanic wife threatened women who might come forward and cause him grief
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Maybe he figured since Mitt Romney didn't prepare to answer the tax return question in the South Carolina debate, Republicans didn't have to prepare for things this year.
US election 2012: Mitt Romney booed over tax returns during South Carolina debate
Ah, of course, you tried to help me :-)
They're not only taking his comments out of context, they're taking the MEANINGS out of his words. The Dems are saying he was trying to say some rapes are "legitimate," meaning "good!" I don't know how you GET more out of context then claiming someone meant something that they didn't say.
In fact the Dems’ attacks are so outrageous, over-the-top, and implausible, that I think Akin is virtually guaranteed to win this race if he stays in. People are going to be disgusted by the idea that the Dems would smear a good man who made one simple verbal mistake that could’ve happened to anyone.
But I will guarantee this. The more hypocritical putznosed RINO Republicans make demands of the Missouri political process, the more the grassroots in Missouri will react and give them just what they don't want, and the GOP will have only itself to blame. Take that for what it is worth.
LOL! Kicking people out of the party are we now? I knew it would only be a matter of time.
Sorry for injecting some realism into this. As people have already pointed out, Gaffes like this DESTROY candidates. If I have to choose between a RINO or a democrat, I’ll vote RINO every time and lose no sleep knowing I have betrayed my values. It’s no wonder the Dems always have an advantage. They see us an an enemy to be defeated, but we don’t see them in the same way. In the words of Cobra...
“As long as we have to play by these bull**** rules and they don’t, we’re gonna lose”
It’s not a matter of being consistent.
Romney’s got nothing to do with this. Romney may not win in November but we still have a decent chance of winning the Senate. We’ll need a majority in the Senate to offset a second term for Obama.
If you hate Romney, that’s fine. But you’re using him as a foil to excuse commentary uttered by a Senate candidate in Missouri.
The Dems are twisting the comments? No surprises there, but come on, even you have to admit, what he said not only feeds a negative narrative, but also was factually false. He made a statement based on false logic and also worded it terribly. If this was in any way salvageable, other senators would not be rebuking his comments.
Will it be good enough? Who knows.
100% correct. Don’t hold your breath for a reply. He/she has said they don’t read replies.
I'm using Romney to prove my thesis that Christian conservatives get thrown under the bus by the GOP elites for stuff that RINOs never would. If Romney said the exact same thing, they'd be explaining it away as a simple mistake and there would be no calls to take him out of the race.
Uncle Chip, rarely have I read such a pile of you know what as in your Post #110.
The polling out of Missouri has already shown a decline in Akin’s numbers.
As much as you go on and on about the elitist’s “choice”, you really have no clue as to who will be chosen - that is, if Akin gets out. You act like they’re gonna choose Lincoln Chaffee or Olympia Snowe to be the nominee. Give it a rest until you know for sure.
As for your last comment, your paranoia (or ignorance) is showing. The so-called “moderates” and elitists” didn’t do this to Todd Akin. He did it to himself. You act like there was some cabal of conspiracists who had this set up all along because GASP, they couldn’t tolerate a conservative. If Akin had kept his mouth shut, there wouldn’t have been a problem.
Romney's entire life feeds a negative narrative about Republicans. And there's nothing false about him passing on what he's heard from doctors. He never claimed he knew it was true, just saying from what he understood, this is what he thought might be the case. And then he said he's putting that aside, since it isn't necessarily or always true. The guy couldn't have qualified his statements any more under the "maybe" banner, yet people keep claiming he made some bold proclamation.
“..my thesis that Christian conservatives get thrown under the bus by the GOP elites for stuff that RINOs never would.”
There is no double standard. Akin threw himself under the bus. Akin did this to himself. He made the ultimate asinine statement.
If this were 2002 and Romney, while running for Governor, made a comment like Akin made, he’d have been pilloried for it.
Please. He used an accurate, but ambiguous word that could be interpreted different ways, and is being done so disingenuously by Democrats and even some Republicans who want to roast him because he's a Christian conservative. End of story. That's the truth. Any other interpretation is totally bogus and has no basis as far as I'm concerned. Akin is far more likely to win his election than Romney, so I say we sign a petition to make Romney quit.
Today with the inter net we have a different situation. We picked him and can beat the Democrats on the issue. IMO I'm tired of the abortion debate, but Akin to his credit isn't.
No, we are not in disagreement. Character really does matter to the GOP. To be sure, the standard of measurement is unevenly applied - sadly, but we cannot stand rank illegality, immorality, or unethical practice ... and just plain stupid unawareness - as in the case of VP Joe BiteMe or the current object of attention, Todd Akin - is not looked upon with favor.
Whereas the left cares only about power, as history has shown again and again.
Senator Brown, that’s the guy who posed nude in Playboy?
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