G.O.P. Trying to Oust Akin From Race for Rape Remarks

The New York Times ^ | August 20, 2012 | JONATHAN WEISMAN and JOHN ELIGON

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WASHINGTON — Fearing that a seat crucial to winning a Senate majority could slip away, the national Republican establishment on Monday unleashed a furious campaign to drive Representative Todd Akin, the party’s newly selected nominee, out of the race against Missouri’s Democratic senator.

Amid an uproar over provocative comments on rape and abortion that Mr. Akin made in an interview broadcast on Sunday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee declared that it would withdraw financial and organizational support for Mr. Akin, including $5 million in advertising already reserved for the fall. ...

Crossroads GPS, a Republican advocacy group that had already spent more than $5 million to weaken Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, considered the Senate’s most endangered incumbent, announced that it was withdrawing from the state. ...

But Senator John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Senate campaign committee, personally asked Mr. Akin to step aside, a senior Republican Senate campaign aide said.

“Over the next 24 hours, Congressman Akin should carefully consider what is best for him, his family, the Republican Party and the values that he cares about and has fought for throughout his career in public service,” Mr. Cornyn said in a statement. ...

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(When the RAT buffoon Biden goes on a tear you won’t hear the RAT party demanding he drop out. Only works one way.)

Because the RATs’ God is the Democrat party. We conservatives tend to have higher principles, like knowing right and wrong and having the integrity to live out those principles, even when “our guy” is the guilty party. I hope we never say “yeah, he’s a crook, but he’s our crook” or some other such thoughts.

[freekitty]

I know he said it; but there may be more to this story. The Senate is so close and I can see fools like Reid in there somewhere.

[reefdiver]

Your right. He has to go. Republicans have to have separation from democrats and part of that separation includes guide posts on the moral highways, Akin is off the track going the wrong way. He had His shot and blew it.