Posted on 08/22/2012 5:07:38 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative
Around the clock, Democratic candidates, spokesmen, commercials, and the party’s foot soldiers in the news media will labor sedulously to transform the party of Lincoln and Reagan into the party of Akin. By Election Day, Akin will be more famous, ubiquitous, and inescapable than Kim Kardashian. His twisted comments on rape will be played again and again, with spooky music, scary edits, and every instrument in the campaign consultant’s tool box applied to amplify this message.
By November 6, the only woman who will vote for Mitt Romney will be Ann Romney — maybe.
With women (and many men) terrified by the Party of Rape, Republican candidates and causes will fall like autumn leaves, after which some will blow away, and others will gather in piles and fester.
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We need a freepathon for Akin.
They are helping the cause. Akin apologists are not.
They are helping the cause. Akin apologists are not.
Calling the GOP the “Party of Rape” is good then? Even though the author is just hyperventilating about what the Democrats might call us, why should he give the Democrats the names to call the GOP? What did Akin do again? Who can actually explain it. Nobody will, they just say he said something stupid and has to go. Very very reactionary, and reactionary isn’t good.
They want to kill the unborn and gain homosexual marriage.
After this election, I have a feeling there will be a 3rd Party no matter what happens. The Republican Media has been ridiculous in recent years leading up to the crescendo this week over the Akin comments. Last year, the Republican Media called us all hobbits and extremists for opposition to raising the debt ceiling.
When the going gets tought, the Republican Media start to act alot like their liberal media friends.
Oh brother. If America does this to itself because of what a Todd Akin said two days ago then I have no sympathy for America.
The stakes are much too high to be complacent. I don’t live in Missouri, but those who do need to get into Todd Akin’s face.
I just came back from a volunteer session for RR. The calls were aimed at soft dems tonight and I hear a lot of the “Romney hates women” “Romney is going to take away abortion rights” and so forth. Some of the women lied and pretended to be pubbies who’s votes are now “lost”. Those votes cannot be lost because we never had them and never will. While I think that Akin should have quit the race, he didn’t and we need to move on. A much more important goal would be have every voter over the age of 55 able to quote the following statistics:
according to the CBO obamacare does the following to medicare:
A $260 billion payment cut for hospital services.
A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services.
A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services.
A $66 billion payment cut for home health services.
A $33 billion payment cut for all other services.
A $156 billion cut in payment rates in Medicare Advantage (MA); $156 billion is before considering interactions with other provisions. The House Ways and Means Committee was able to include interactions with other provisions, estimating the cuts to MA to be even higher, coming in at $308 billion.
$56 billion in cuts for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.* DSH payments go to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients.
$114 billion in other provisions pertaining to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP* (does not include coverage-related provisions).
Sadly all the “brave” conservatives who were so quick to condemn Aikin are dead silent on Brown. The few FReepers shameless enough to defend Brown have made it clear that winning at the expense of a few babies is OK.
It makes me wonder if euthanizing the elderly would be OK if it meant GOP control. If we can accept abortion if it means winning, There simply can’t be much else that is a bridge too far.
No win is worth the most innocent of lives.
I hadn’t heard the GOP was nearly this confident they could repeal Obamacare, until now, when they realized that they can now blame Todd Akin when they don’t repeal it. 2 months ago, Mitch McConnell was lamenting about how he hard and possibly unlikely it would be to repeal, but now all of the sudden, we have been assured that as long as we beat Claire McCaskill and have 50 Senators, Obamacare will be repealed.
But alas if Akin loses, they’ll say it would have been repealed if not for Akin. Kind of like when Obama says the economy would have crashed completely if not for his stimulus and GM Bailout.
Nice job, Akin. You managed to take away the advantage we got from Ryan and make yourself the “new face of the GOP.” Way to go, you conceited jerk.
Too late, too many Freepers have foolishly bought into the “Akin is wrong and will wreck all the elections, somehow” meme.
You know, Akin’s critics can blast him all they want - In his position, I’d dig in my heels, too.
Nice job, Akin. You managed to take away the advantage we got from Ryan and make yourself the “new face of the GOP.” Way to go, you conceited jerk. (Not you, Windy City...Akin.)
Silent on Brown?! You think Elizabeth Warren will help your cause?
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