In another time, they might be referred to as:
Posted on 08/23/2012 3:04:14 PM PDT by Red Steel
Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- Facing pressure from Republican heavyweights in Washington to abandon his Missouri Senate bid, Rep. Todd Akin is huddling with top conservative activists in Tampa to assess whether to move forward with his embattled candidacy.
Akin spent Wednesday night and Thursday in a series of private meetings at the two-day summit of the Council For National Policy (CNP), a secretive group of conservative leaders who are meeting in Florida before next week's RNC.
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Multiple sources at the CNP conference told CNN that Akin is being encouraged by leading figures in the conservative movement to remain in the Senate race even as he faces pressure from Republican establishment.
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Asked if Akin is using the meetings to re-evaluate his decision to stay in the Missouri race, a source close to the congressman told CNN that he is "keeping an open ear to those people who are pushing him or questioning him on viability."
But the source stressed that Akin is "getting a ton of support" from conservatives at the conference.
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Several of the conservatives attending the conference - most of whom refused to speak on the record because of the secretive nature of the CNP -- expressed resentment at the aggressive and heavy-handed treatment of Akin by Republican leaders in Washington who have pressured him to quit the Missouri race.
At least two people at the conference named Karl Rove, a co-founder of the powerful 527 group American Crossroads, as a specific source of frustration.
Rove's relationship with the activist wing of his party has grown frosty over the years, and sources backing Akin said they might not be rallying to his side with such vigor if Rove was not among those pushing Akin to get out.
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You wear it. I’m sure it fits you good.
Well, that should make all you purist real happy if because of Akin we don't regain control of the Senate, right?
Much the same as hoping the Messiah wins another term in order to marginalize the RINO's, RNC and Establishment Pukes, even if he manages to destroy our Republic right?
Would not want to be around you and your buds when you handles firearms or sharp knives as I bet most of you might shoot your big toes off or take a chunk out of your snoz to spite your faces.
You don’t seem to understand. By taking out Akin, you are making sure we don’t regain control of the Senate. A third party run by some GOPe approved goober isn’t going to work.
In another time, they might be referred to as:
“We in Missouri will most likely have to wait six more years to have a crack at replacing our Senator.”
Same feelings here, and he is my representative. I still feel he will step aside.
Interestingly enough, both John Ashcroft and Rush Limbaugh’s districts over in the southeaster and southwestern parts of Mizzou went with Todd Akin.
You know: that whole `voters voting for candidates’ thing.
I’m sure the GOP-e wasn’t pleased: A conservative. Tut tut.
http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=29&year=2012&f=0&off=3&elect=2
I think what someone said on this thread earlier is accurate, about lefty plants. However the lefty (or GOP) trolls appear to be the usual suspects seen over-and-over, thread after thread, denigrating in one post after another the elected conservative candidate, Todd Akin. (Note I said `conservative,’ not GOP.)
This whole mess has turned me full circle: Screw Romney and the GOP-e in 2012.
We’ll elect conservatives in congress and try again in 2016—when the GOP is a broken husk.
So Mitt doesn’t win. Mitt/Barack: six of one, a half dozen of another. They both hate us.
And they’re same-same—using these lousy, despicable tactics against conservatives.
GOP: Hasta la vista, baby! The law of unintended consequences strikes again .....
Fascinating, your need to use personification and exaggeration in your attempt to tar Akin.
I have yet to see a plainly spoken, straighforward and accurate criticism on this.
It appears that the name of this place may have to be changed to FEAR Republic. The concern trolls are really swarming over this one. The same people here who have accepted Mitt Romney as their personal savior want to kick this conservative to the curb and replace him with some slick talking liberal ad salesman. Is that really what we need? Some empty suit that will never take a stand for anything? What Akin said was ignorant, not evil. There’s an entire generation of us who were told this in school and otherwise. Akin wasn’t offering medical advice as an expert, he was answering a “got’cha” question and flubbed it. By piling on with the liberals, shouting down anyone who actually talks about the “real” point behind his response, which is that murdering the unborn is not justified even in cases of rape, and that the “rape exception” is a created distraction from the 53 million child murders commited in this country annually, these concern trolls further the liberal lies by trying to tar all true conservatives along with Akin as being anti-woman, or pro rape. They’d much rather drive the republican party further to the left, so that in the future we are truly left with no choices, and they do this by continually screaming that this election, Mitt Romney, and compromising on basic principles is our last and only hope.... Bah.
53 million, huh? You gotta be a little more stingy with numbers, SCOT!
It appears that the name of this place may have to be changed to FEAR Republic. The concern trolls are really swarming over this one. The same people here who have accepted Mitt Romney as their personal savior want to kick this conservative to the curb and replace him with some slick talking liberal ad salesman. Is that really what we need? Some empty suit that will never take a stand for anything? What Akin said was ignorant, not evil. There’s an entire generation of us who were told this in school and otherwise. Akin wasn’t offering medical advice as an expert, he was answering a “got’cha” question and flubbed it. By piling on with the liberals, shouting down anyone who actually talks about the “real” point behind his response, which is that murdering the unborn is not justified even in cases of rape, and that the “rape exception” is a created distraction from the 53 million child murders commited in this country annually, these concern trolls further the liberal lies by trying to tar all true conservatives along with Akin as being anti-woman, or pro rape. They’d much rather drive the republican party further to the left, so that in the future we are truly left with no choices, and they do this by continually screaming that this election, Mitt Romney, and compromising on basic principles is our last and only hope.... Bah.
Quit spouting the democratic propaganda! The only people for rape are at the leadership of the democratic party!
You’re right. 1 million or so on a per year basis, just 53 million or so aggregate since Roe v Wade. That makes it MUCH easier to ignore, doesn’t it?
Hmmm, I see Akin has the hottest ad team in politics today, Rex Elsass’s The Strategy Group for Media.
In 2010 they worked for winners Kasich, Boozman, and Rand Paul- who started off 20 points behind.
What the hell are you talking about? You went off on a tangent. Normally, when people read what I wrote, that was CLEARLY in general and not directed at anyone and take it personally, they are the ones guilty of it.
So hey, good luck with it.
The most intelligent post on Akin yet.
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