Posted on 08/20/2012 8:56:24 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 20, 2012
Mike Flynn
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At some point before 5pm CDT tomorrow, Akin will file papers to formally withdraw his name from the ballot. I realize today Akin was defiant and said he wasn't a "quitter." His supporters claim he will stay in the race because he views his candidacy as "providential", but this is just the bluster before the end. Everyone is entitled to 24 hours to try to right their ship, but Akin did nothing today to cauterize the wound. When Reince Priebus, Ann Coulter, NRSC and Tea Party Express are all united in saying you should quit, you've pretty much run out of options.
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After Akin withdraws the decision to name a replacement falls to the 15 members of the state GOP central committee. Speculation is currently focused on two candidates Akin defeated in the recent GOP primary; businessman Jim Brunner and former State Treasurer Sarah Steelman.
Brunner had the backing of many GOP insiders because of his ability to partially self-fund his race. Steelman had the backing of Sarah Palin. They both lost to Akin in large part because Sen. McCaskill ran a lot of ads "attacking" him for being too conservative. (Think of it as a Republican dog-whistle.) Among the two, Steelman probably has the edge as the GOP may want to put the Akin debacle to rest by nominating a woman. It is also expected that Palin would campaign aggressively for Steelman, which would be helpful as 2012 is turning out to be a base election....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yep.
There are studies that he was referencing.
There are studies that politician reference all of the time that are flat out wrong and bogus.
No one has answered my question
Should we have condemned Sara Palin for being a creationist to please the media and the left in hopes they would vote Republican?
Isn’t creationism a baldfaced stupid statement in the minds of many? One that Republicans want to hide like a learning impaired child?
I’m just asking if we’re going to run every time the media says “Boo!” or if we ever take a stand on any candidate.
Who are they going after next?
I think it’s a moot point, because this idiot is arrogant enough to think he’ll win despite this idiocy. I only wonder how widespread the damage is going to be, now that he’s decided standards for intelligence don’t apply to him. He certainly has enough sycophants in his corner.
situations NOT equivalent. some bogus unnamed study that posits a ludicrous concept [women being able to control conception] that no legit ob/gyn would validate is not the equal in any way or creationism or globalwarming, which have established sets of “believers”.
Anybody dumb enough to think they can draw a distinction between "rape" and "rape-rape" while trying to get elected to the Senate. So, unless there is widespread idiocy, or a "closing of the ranks" the Dems can tar the whole party with, nobody is "next."
If he withdraws, who can spin up a campaign staff in 24 hours, clock is running out on the election cycle...
This could very well cost us ALL the marbles....
“There are studies that he was referencing.”
There are no studies he was referencing when he said women have a way of shutting down their system after being raped Other other than “some doctors” have told him.Will any doctor admit to making such a dumb junk science statement. There are no doctors that would say such stupidity. This will not be this person’s first megablunder. There are usually more puppies to follow after the first one comes out. The Democrats are now raising money nationally off this. He needs to begone.
i think the equivalency that you are searching for is ALIEN ABDUCTION. i’m sure there are “studies” and an equivelent # of people who believe in it.
“There are studies that he was referencing.”
There are no studies he was referencing when he said women have a way of shutting down their system after being raped Other than “some doctors” have told him.Will any doctor admit to making such a dumb junk science statement. This will not be this person’s first megablunder. There are usually more puppies to follow after the first one is delivered. The Democrats are now raising money nationally off these foolish statements. He needs to begone.
And I'm just asking why McCaskill spent so much money to ensure Akin would be the nominee and is now oh so supportive of Akin. Emphasis on "now."
You're right. Isn't it amazing how principles are so quickly cast aside in the game of politics.
LOL!!
hey Dennis Kucinich believes in it! ; )
Okay, so we should be PRINCIPLED and let this moron run and lose to Claire McCaskill and insure the Dems remain in control of the Senate and that Obamacare remains the law of the land. I guess you are voting for Virgil Goode?
They’re makin’ me hungry............for a GOP LANDSLIDE!........
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AN UNDERCOVER NUDES SPECIAL:
- While Obama uses the ‘rape’ stuff in Missouri as a welcome diversion -
Somebody - perhaps beckwith - should follow this up - not me - this is waaay out of my area(s) of expertise
- Here’s an account of a then young woman who claims she was raped by admitted bisexual Bill Ayers…
From “Remembering a Sixties Terrorist” ...
Obama’s pal Ayers was another sexually sick SOB.
From the New York Times, September 11, 2001:
“He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ‘smash monogamy.’The Weathermen were ‘an army of lovers,’ he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.”
“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at”
– Bill Ayers (1970),
quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Source:
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
“No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives;
In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen”
Here’s an account of a then young woman who claims she was raped by admitted bisexual Bill Ayers…
From “Remembering a Sixties Terrorist”
-by Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006:
“...when I was getting ready to leave [Bill] Ayers told me I couldn’t go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up.
At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it.
I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him.
He (Bill Ayers) said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there.
He claimed that I wouldn’t sleep with his married roommate because he was black — that I was a bigot.
I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommate’s bed and put myself on it and he ****** me.
I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger **** me angrily while I hated myself.”
Remembering a Sixties Terrorist
-by Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006:
[WARNING: ‘F’ word used at link]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2b
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What did Bill Ayers “longtime” buddy Barack Hussein Obama Junior say regarding the Todd Akin comments on TV?
“Rape is Rape!”
- So just why are both Barack Obama and Michelle Obama so fascinated, obcessed, and protective of homosexuals and radical homo groups and why did Obama “suddenly evolve” and “come out” for same-sex marriage?
- I think we all have a “cloo or too” ....
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He never said that.
Who arranged this TV interview and why did Akin agree?
I think Akin should remove himself from the ballot, but because of the Republican party and FR’s cowardly response, chicken littlism and generally acting like a bunch of old scared women.
We are being driven like cattle. Didn’t your cohort vote for Akin?
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