Yup, I couldn’t care less what the GOPe thinks or wants.
I think even less of the “conservative” blowhards who screech about states rights only to turn into mewling cowards who want the GOPe to fix things for them at the first sign of trouble.
If anyone is going to cost the GOP the senate its the idiots doing the work of the left for them and making sure to keep the story going. He’ll either win or lose on his own and people should worry about their own races. My candidates wisely haven’t spoken about it and seem unaffected by it.
You may not care, but they wield a lot of power in situations like this. This isn’t the primary anymore. Akin is locked in and needs help from the GOP infrastructure (kind of hard to build stuff up from scratch at the last-minute).
1. Nasty (fair or unfair) meme.
2. Big money pulling out.
3. Taking a nasty p/r hit which will only fester. Dems will pound this home everyday and will become a distraction.
4. GOP will start pulling back “machine operations” such as phone banks, GOTV, county offices, etc.,
5. Drip, drip, drip.
It’s in the inertia phase now...gravity is a bitch.