Mike Huckabee has always been a principled social conservative, and he is precisely right about an orchestrated attack on a pro-life candidate. The following paragraph, though, is an indication that Huckabee has realized that social conservatives are no longer welcome in the GOP. It is an astounding thing for a major republican leader to write with such obvious bitterness. You MUST read it:
Who ordered this "Code Red" on Akin? There were talking point memos sent from the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggesting language to urge Akin to drop out. Political consultants were ordered to stay away from Akin or lose future business with GOP committees. Operatives were recruited to set up a network of pastors to call Akin to urge him to get out. Money has changed hands to push him off the plank. It is disgraceful. From the spotlights of political offices and media perches, it may appear that the demand for Akin’s head is universal in the party. I assure you it is not. There is a vast, but mostly quiet army of people who have an innate sense of fairness and don't like to see a fellow political pilgrim bullied. If Todd Akin loses the Senate seat, I will not blame Todd Akin. He made his mistake, but was man enough to admit it and apologize. I'm waiting for the apology from whoever the genius was on the high pedestals of our party who thought it wise to not only shoot our wounded, but run over him with tanks and trucks and then feed his body to the liberal wolves. It wasn't just Todd Akin that was treated with contempt by the thinly veiled attack on Todd Akin. It was all the people who have faithfully knocked doors, made calls, and made sacrificial contributions to elect Republicans because we thought we were welcome in the party. Todd Akin owned his mistake. Who will step up and admit the effort being made to discredit Akin and apologize for the sleazy way it's been handled?
The Akin Assault by the GOP is not just another indication that social conservatives are unwelcome in the Republican Party. It is an attack designed to destroy any voice they might have.
If we don't wake up, we will be having in America Christians tried for "hate speech" in very short order.
“The Akin Assault by the GOP is not just another indication that social conservatives are unwelcome in the Republican Party. It is an attack designed to destroy any voice they might have.”
The Geriatric Old Plotters have defended their bunkers, as I knew they would.
“The Tea Party will take back the GOP!”
No. The GOP coopted the Tea Party.
ping to #120
I was not a fan of Mike Huckabee when he ran for president but when a man is right he is right. It has been amazing to watch how studiously his facts have been ignored and his character smeared in an attempt to discredit his words.
The chronology is breathtaking. The speed and orchestration of the GOP response are clear signs that Akin's comments were being used as a pretext to get him out of the race before the Tuesday deadline. And much that has been written and said is factually incorrect. We are being told that McCaskill funded Akin's campaign by some sort of Machavellian ledgerdemain. Anyone reviewing the McCaslill campaign ads here can see clearly how viciously she was attacking him. Moreover, she created ads against the other two Reps as well.
By responding the way they did, the GOP is going to lose in the long run even if they force out Akin. The proper response should have been a statement disassociating the GOP from Akin's inartful use of language, acceptance of his apology and explanation, and finally, saying it was time to move on to those issues that are affecting the voters of Missouri--unemployment, Obamacare, debt and deficit, etc. That wasn't done because there was an agenda at play. A good and decent man has been sacrificed to the money-changers who run the GOP.
Social conservatives have never been welcome in the GOPe.
It’s interesting how what Akin allegedly said is being blown into things he never said, with the GOPe gladly contributing to the falsehoods.
The man is pro-life and people like Rove want him gone.
Thank you for the ping, dearest xzins!
It’s imperative we win that US Senate seat. I think all of his challengers were also pro-life. He’s made a mess of this election and now it’s up to candidate Akin and MO to decide the outcome.
From what I’ve read about his personal biography, he’s a good man, but I have to ponder why McCaskill’s PAC largely funded his primary campaign?
His other challenger (Brunner I think?) was backed by pro-life groups and ministers and Sarah Palin backed Sarah Steelman, who came in third.
How to get him out of the headlines? THAT challenge seems impossible. He’s become a very serious distraction and the lamestream takes its cue from the Obama campaign.
I’m not in MO, so I can only pray.
“The Akin Assault by the GOP is not just another indication that social conservatives are unwelcome in the Republican Party. It is an attack designed to destroy any voice they might have.”
AMEN! Exactly correct!
I’m sorry that Akin messed up, but in a way I’m glad. He has brought it into focus how the GOP only gives lip service to social conservatism. This incident has forced the truth to the surface.
I must be wrong but I have taken the tack that poor Akin may be entirely too stupid to serve and found his remark to be shocking, hang the science, dangling from a shredded thread, for an excuse.
The point was not to deliver McCaskill an easy win, disrupt the contest for every other Republican running in contested races and get our presidential ticket off message for a week of media war that may cost Republicans their chance at the senate, because Akin believes he is too wonderful and conservative to bow to someone else.
Narcisisism cuts both ways and this guy is roadkill for the media forever.
“The Akin Assault by the GOP is not just another indication that social conservatives are unwelcome in the Republican Party.”
Truer words have not been spoken. If the gop made even one third of the effort against the dems that it has thrown against Todd Akin in the last week, heck, they’d already have control of the Senate.
It’s times like this when you find out who the phonies are and who the actual conservatives are. It’s depressing to see the large number of folks on FR howling for Akin to throw in the towel.
Sometimes what needs to be said can be better said through song. So to the sunshine conservatives of the gop and FR, I’d like to dedicate this song from the movie Jesus Christ Superstar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCpXFInjDw&feature=related
Indeed, that’s quite an indictment! Thank you for letting me know, dear brother in Christ!
Huckabee is not usually someone I support or Champion because of his lack of honesty about his own spotty record where limited Government and support of Illegals is concerned, however, in this instance, he is spot on.
The GOP has done their best this election cycle to move left, and try and lie about or obfuscate that move.
The end result of a possible Romney Presidency will be the loss of the GOP as a home for conservatives.
By supporting this turd of a candidate, at any level, we as conservatives have sold out the most precious of issues, especially from a Conservative perspective:
1. Abortion
2. The Gay Agenda