Let’s assume that selfish swine Akin survives. BFD. How much damage will Akin do to the other 8 competitive Senate races, 30-40 House races, and the Presidential election?
As long as Akin remains the GOP candidate in MO, the dems will milk this as long as they want and there's NOTHING the GOPers can do about it. As such, this will likely result in the loss of Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Because the dems will pound the Akin flap into the heads of voters (and you KNOW they can succeed at this).
So, sadly... the dems can inflict as much damage up and down the Republican ticket as they wish. And, like a spent, beaten boxer taking repeated blows to the head, we are helpless to do anything to stop it.
On the other hand, Akin could put his country first and stop the bleeding now, take one for the team, step aside and let the GOP field a viable candidate and allow this debacle to fade into memory. Until this issue is resolved, the rainmakers from the hurricane won't be the only dark clouds over Tampa next week.
“How much damage will Akin do to the other 8 competitive Senate races”
So what’s new? We have always been and will forever be tarred as the Stupid Party.
It’s just not going to stick this time. Besides every republican candidate on earth has disowned and disavowed Akins. That’s why it would tickle me to see him win. Who would he be beholden to? He would make em squirm. That’s the kind of senator we all say we want - un-beholden and his own man! Just my nature. Contrarian all the way.
Are you voting democrat because of Akin? Of course not.
Besides, the news media has ADD and won’t focus on this for long once the presidential race gets heated. And most ‘Show Me’ staters aren’t the type to be brainwashed.
Interestingly, in 1998 Fay Boozman, a friend of Huckabee, said much the same thing as Akin in his Arkansas senate race against Branch Lincoln. Boozman lost, but, ironically, his brother beat Lincoln in 2010. Guess the folks of Arkansas didn’t hold his brother’s ideas against him. Nor will most sensible folks believe that Akin’s ideas represent all republicans. The economy will decide the presidential race.
Another peculiar twist - Fay Boozman was a medical advisor to a crisis pregnancy center. You just can’t make this stuff up.