Is it too late to recruit Joe Palombi?
Posted on 08/21/2012 8:37:12 AM PDT by tcrlaf
It's like it's the ONLY news happening on the entire planet. Anyone else noticing this?
They are spending 3 minutes of every 15 on this, and have been, all morning.
CBS Evening News devoted a FULL EIGHT MINUTES to this last night.
Agreed. This “OMG, we’re going to lose every race because of him” is a bunch of hyperventilating, over dramatic b.s.
They’ve been launching this war on women crap forever, it’s failed, it’ll continue to fail. Nobody but Obama’s 43% watches this crap.
He'll talk about golf and some other thing for the first half hour, then feign a discussion off mike: "What? Who...Todd what?.... Akin? Yes. I heard something about that. I don't know anything about it...so what?"
He won't touch it out of the box.
Yup, he's managing to make himself the Poster Child of the democrat's claim about the Republican "War On Woman".
He has the right to stay in, but we will likely not become the majority in the Senate. It's no longer tha statewide issue.
That’s beyond absurd...”cheering them on” - no - we want him to drop out precisely because this is what we knew would happen and they aren’t comments that are in any way defensible. He just gave them on a silver platter ammunition to bolster their stereotypes against conservatives.
And outside of Missouri, how many votes is he going to change? None.
Nobody cares about some unknown loon they never heard of. There’s dozens of these idiots on both sides of the fence running in races every year. Their problems never spread outside their own races.
Yes, we are. And we weren’t just a few short days ago. All thanks to Akin, who is so arrogant he thinks he can ride this out, while he takes the party’s chances to repeal Obamacare down with him. That’s why I’m really, really ticked off at this one-man wrecking crew right now, and I don’t have a lot of patience with FReepers who think it’s no big deal and we should circle the wagons for this guy.
When a Republican says the word macaca in an election year, the drive by media is going to attack.
One more news cycle will lead to 2 1/2 months wmore news cycles if he doesn’t get out today by 5:00 Central.
We may have been Mark Foleyed again.
The writing is on the wall that Romney will be asked about abortion in the cases of rape “and incest” (isn’t that rape too? Or is that somehow illegitimate rape and needs a qualifier?)
Expect it at one of the debates. Romney has already come out on the pro-abort side but the question will be poised during a debate to turn off social/religious conservatives.
An NPR guest Sunday also said that Romney will HAVE to be asked about his Mormon faith at one of the debates.
Please. You buy the typical revisionist nonsense. That was going to be a down year for GOP regardless. The war was becoming very unpopular, it was the 2nd mid-term of a President that people were starting to get tired of. Mark Foley didn’t change a damn thing.
How did Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell’s crazy babbling affect 2010? It didn’t. These things are local, period. They always are local.
If he doesn't we still have the House and White House to focus on (even though I'm sure the dems will also try to use this story to win back the House (just like Pelosi did using Mark Foley).
Is it too late to recruit Joe Palombi?
I think so. And it’s a deeply flawed individual at the center of it again. I can’t believe how many FReepers have forgotten about “the Foley effect” already.
The one-man wrecking crew just turned this race from 2010 part 2 to 2006 part 2.
I was wrong!
then feign a discussion off mike:
I was right!
Yes, local on my local news in Portland, Maine.
It's local as far as his rights and elections go. Newsworthy it's as national as Mark Foley.
I bet CNN is glad there are no other problems left in this country
A Republican said something stupid so they can cover it and bring you the lastest updates 24/7~!!
The fall-out from this "non-issue" is not as clear as some seem to believe. I would ignore it until it gets stale, and then quietly point out that rape is really not a Federal issue. (Except in the District, Federal Territories & military reservations, it falls under the State Police Powers.)
Now, of course, with the Federal Government more & more in the medical services business--unconstitutionally--the question of what you do to interdict a rape induced pregnancy does have relevance in that context; and the question arises, how would you determine the genuine problem from something else. But that question cuts in so many different potential directions, it is best ignored.
How then to handle the Akin overstatement--or clumsy folly? That is a situation that should be ignored, also, by anyone not from Missouri. Frankly, who represents Missouri in the Senate is no one else's business. (I do not mean that we do not have druthers. Of course, we do. But we need to understand that those "druthers," however strong, do not give us the moral right to seek to dictate to citizens of a sister State.
One other point. There are ways that Mr. Akin could explain his folly that would resonate far better than anyone seems to imagine in the immediate fire-storm over this. But I will leave all of that to the imagination--so as not to fan the useless flames, which would play into the media silliness.
William Flax
Absurdity. Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep yourself sane, just keep doing it. I don’t want to upset that bubble, but you are full of it.
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