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Posted on 08/23/2012 3:24:25 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 23, 2012
I’m beyond speechless. What is this guy drinking? Stacy Drake, one of my fellow C4P editors, summed it up best in an email:
Who knew Baghdad Bob moved to Missouri?
With that, via Jim Hoft, anyone who goes to Todd Akin’s website will have the privilege of reading the following pearl of wisdom:
St. Louis, MO: The following statement was released by Perry Akin, Campaign Manager for Todd Akin for Senate, in response to the Rasmussen poll released this morning: “The fact that Claire McCaskill is only polling at 48% after 72 hours of constant negative attacks on Todd Akin shows just how weak she is. If she can’t break fifty percent after a week like this, Democrats should ask Claire to step down. Todd is in this race to win; we will close this gap and win in November with the support of the grassroots in Missouri and across America.”
This is an example of the breathtaking ignorance we’re up against, folks.....
He’s set anyway as a 6 term member of the House of Representatives.
Good post. Yours is one of the more level headed assessments I’ve seen about this.
Bottom line, this is about something far more important than one man’s selfishness.
Then I wonder how come the U S Senate is filled with dumbasses? —both RINOs and democRATs!
Clearly she’s not bailing.
A week before this, polls showed him ahead by just a few points, if any. So losing 10 points is not as catastrophic as it sounds. If he had lost 25 points or more, he would be in deep trouble.
But think: there are still 75 days left until the election.
If the Republicans will just quit nattering at him to resign, reminding the public over and over again of his gaffe, 10 points in 75 days can be overcome.
Importantly, 10 points is *relative* to his opponent. Which means if she loses 5 and he gains 5, they are even.
So if he can remind the voters of his state of what a leftist kook she is, *that is*, if somebody will give him even a little funding to do so, he could still win.
So to Sarah Palin and the others who want to tear him down: why don’t you just put a sock in it for a couple of weeks and see what happens?
That is, unless you *want* a radical leftist to win that senate seat.
It’s Claire conducting a straw poll —
It seems like we have much smarter people in the House. It’s probably a simple matter of the electorate. Statewide, the Senate races have to appeal to a broader amount of people. So the message and the candidates get dumbed down. The higher turnout you get, the more the big money knows that it has to dumb down its message to get its support up, since in any large population the dumb people outnumber the smart ones.
With individual House districts, they are smaller so you will find districts with a higher average intelligence that can elect a more intelligent representative. You’ll also find Charlie Rangell’s district.
This also explains why one of our dumbest elected officials is in the White House. A nationwide election is the most dumbed down election of all.
So it will as credible as any of the polls the Akin campaign cite to justify staying in the game.
This is an odd thing to say about someone elected to the US House for six terms.
A safe House seat and a statewide race are two different things, but you already knew that.
Don't know where you're from, but here in the USA we get to speak our mind on all matters, including this one. That right was paid for in blood. The First Amendment defines in many ways who we are as a people. Sorry, "put a sock in it" doesn't get many takers.
LOL!
Like when you are on a first date in the car and you fart. She heard it. She smells it. Trying to tell her you only had burritos and not boiled cabbage is not a good option.
If he’s a sure loser, what’s selfish about wanting to lose a Senate seat? He doesn’t gain anything out of that.
If he thinks he can win, then what’s selfish about wanting to win? If he wins, the GOP wins a Senate seat and everyone’s a winner.
So I’m not seeing selfishness as a potential motivation here at all. Confidence, yes. Misplaced confidence? Time will tell.
Right. OK. That explains your comment.
In a safe Republican district it doesn’t take much. Statewide races are a completely different league.
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