Posted on 08/23/2012 11:55:47 AM PDT by TonyInOhio
Todd Akin hasn't had many high-profile supporters with him in the trenches this week, but Mike Huckabee became an important and emphatic exception Thursday afternoon, sending a message to his own supporters accusing Republican elites of trying to drum a good man out of a winnable Senate race. Here's what Huckabee said in an email to his list this afternoon:
Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren't rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded and bleeding, a casualty of his self-inflicted, but not intentional wound.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Let's start with Huckabee granting clemency to a man serving a 95-year sentence, Maurice Clemmons, who murdered four police officers only six days after being released.
Let's continue with convicted rapist Wayne DuMond who raped and murdered a Missouri woman less than a year after Huckabee let him go.
In total, Huckabee granted 1,033 pardons and commutations including a dozen convicted murderers. That's more than the three prior Arkansas governor's combined.
A menace to law-and-order, Huckabee got rich on his awe-shucks Christian Socialism.
It is indeed a bit odd. Brunner was an outsider... a rich businessman with no political experience which made some professional pols ‘wary’ of him. Steelman was an outsider... in the sense she was pretty independent, and antagonized and ‘didn’t’ play well with the state GOP party machine. Akin was the one with the decades-long political career, a pro who had an edge with the state party leadership. He was the ‘least’ outsider of the big trio who ran.
True.
The fact that he is only 10pts down is itself amazing.
Is he fat now?
Exactly correct; in fact, I advocated telling Huck no speech unless and until you convince Akin to stand down.
Huckabee is going to get booed at the RNC for this. People feel very strongly about this senate seat, which is going down the tubes.
Time to put this behind and support him.
I think the use of the words ‘legitimate rape’ is inexcusable to public cognizance of rape. Akin can’t be very discriminating in word usage and this can be considered a personal character flaw. However, I believe the Repubs, the whole bunch, showed a sorry lack of moxy on how to deal with such a brouhaha. There is a serious, irreconcilable difference between statistical portraits of any kind of rape and the physical/psychological effect on an individual female victim. I don’t believe statistical numbers can in any way be compared to a single persons emotions and decisions. The Repubs would have been much better off, and probably to their benefit if they would have first told Akin he was way off as to public take on any rape incident and he needed to do some explaining if he wanted his words to be any part of Repub support. The Repubs were coerced into a panic mode, part of which was because of intra party politics.
Agreed!
Now is the time for courage
Want to know why the Republican Party is in such trouble? I believe it comes down to one word: courage.
When Democrats misspeak, we make them vice president. When Republicans misspeak, Republicans are the first in line to throw them under the bus.
When Rep. Todd Akin stood for protecting all innocent human life in a recent interview, he used a word with more than one meaning. He used the word “legitimate” before the word “rape” to mean “real,” “forcible,” a tragic event that “really took place.” Anyone who doesn’t think false claims of rape can be made should check with Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of Roe v. Wade. The infamous abortion case, based on her false rape claim, has resulted in the deaths of 55 million innocent human lives.
But because “legitimate” could also modify the word rape, some in the Republican Party are practically writing Willie Horton ads about it, pretending that the congressman is “pro-rape” and wants to let rapists out on furlough. This “interpretation” of the congressman’s words doesn’t resemble reality, and everyone knows it.
If Republicans love their country, they will quit using fiction to shoot their own and focus on the real enemies of life: Democrats Claire McCaskill and Barack Obama, who stand for legally sucking the brains out of half-born babies in a procedure called partial-birth abortion.
In America, we shouldn’t kill people for the crimes of their father. And in politics, we shouldn’t kill statesmen for a badly worded sound bite.
Thankfully, there are men and women of courage who stand with Rep. Akin,
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http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/now-is-the-time-for-courage/
Do you think Mitt wanting homosexual Scout leaders is better than that?
Akin's made a mistake in his language, but the GOP has been exposed for abject cowardice.
They need to turn around and support him.
Certainly the MSM will attack any and all REPUBs. But this was a monumental error and probably it is not his last one.
We will end up seeing more of Akin on TV than Romney or Ryan between now and November and the word economics will rarely if ever be mentioned.
Remember earlier in the year, when the left praised Huckabee as the great white hope to finally destroy conservative radio?
Hey Newbee -- Welcome to Free Republic.
Since 06-08-2012.
Are you a paid consultant or a paid blogger or just visiting that computer there??? How much do key punchers like you get these days???
BTW you will have to do better than that if you want to keep your job. That was an entry level response but it did answer my question.
The time for courage was the day before yesterday; sadly, Akin failed to show any, and decided to go ahead and lose the potential 51st GOP Senate seat by staying in the race.
I'd say these circumstances have less to do with courage and a whole lot more to do with hubris.
Why would you support the GOP, if you want to make it into the Democrat Party. The GOP was right to enforce standards on this guy. The left shouldn’t be able to force their candidate.
Ahh, the “you’re a newbie so I’m right” response. Haven’t gotten that before personally, but I’ve seen others do it enough to know you’ve lost when you use it.
Ohhh sam ..sam .. sam.
Surely you have looked at the Rasmussen poll numbers today. All the GOP needs to do is pick up 4 seats to unseat Harry and they are currently ahead in 8 and that is without Missouri. So quit telling us that the sky is falling over Missouri.
It’s becoming clear as crystal that the real reason Akin is being thrown under the bus is his stand against abortion.
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