[so_real]

The Dems and Claire gave him a roughly 2 million in ads attacking his rivals

As I posted on another thread:

"There’s a reason why Democrats spent over $1.5 million trying to help Akin win his three-way primary. He was the most conservative candidate in the field — and the most unpredictable one. He shook up his campaign staff late last year. He recently released a head-scratching and jumbled campaign ad. And Democrats have already launched a microsite highlighting his controversial statements that won’t play well with moderates. (“America has got the equivalent of the stage III cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in,” Akin once said.)"

They helped Akin because they figured he was the only one in the bunch they stood a snowball's chance of defeating in 2012. They chose him, to beat him, thinking they could because he is so very much like us "crazy" right wing conservative Christian patriots they detest so much. Akin is still going to win and, I confess, I will enjoy watching the liberal talking heads explode when they realize their plan backfired.

[ncalburt]

good grief .