Posted on 08/24/2012 11:26:19 AM PDT by tsowellfan
“Clearly, there has been collateral damage...”
And thats why Akin’s campaign’s days are now numbered in single digits.
Akin needs to get out. Missouri should be a lay up for Romney. McCain won Missouri in 2008, and most polls have had Mitt up by double digits before rapegate.
Akin is a tool. He doesn’t even realize he is being used by the very same abortion advocates he despises.
Do the honorable thing. Quit the race, and let someone who can win take over.
It’s not the end of the world. A couple of Mizzou visits that weren’t originally planned, but then there’s always that kind of slack built into any campaign for just such an emergency. Hell it gives Mittens something to repudiate and wave his finger at, and you can get free media coverage in IA and NE1 as well.
oh happy day...
oh happy day...
when Akin washed...
oh, when Akin washed...
said, when Akin washed...
Romney's chances away...
oh happy day...
oh happy day...
Or at least someone who can stop the spillover into other races.
Men more likely are fleeing Romney because he behaved, as did the rest of the establishment GOP, like a friggen pansy over this Akin thing.
This guy is just not worth the risk of 4 more years of 0bama. Just get out of the race already. He should have when he had the chance to do it easily now we have to rely on a judge to remove him from the ballot if he does the right thing.
Think about it. What one thing do Romney (R) and Akin(R) have in common?
George Soros, Bill Maher, et al are sending checks to Akin as I type.
I wonder how the polling questions were worded?
Republican men is almost becoming an oximoron.
“Obama’s Democratic support in the state remains largely unchanged at 96%, and voters not affiliated with either major party still favor Romney by 20 points. But Republican support in Missouri for the party’s likely nominee has fallen from 94% in late July to 85% now,”
It would be best if the Conservative/GOP movement quit obsessing about Akin, you are cutting your own throats.
Conservatives are fracturing their own base in MO for NO reason. Get back on message! Quit falling for the Democrat propaganda machines tactics of diversion and distraction.
Even without Akin the GOP looks to pick up 4-8 Senate seats. All you are doing here is shooting your own side in the foot! Time to get quit responding to the Democrat propaganda machines every ploy and get back on message!
Only problem with that theory is Akin has also dropped at least 10% since his rape comment.
Since both Romney and Akin are dropping in the polls, perhaps we should ask ourselves what Romney (R) and Akin (R) share in common that could be the reason for the sudden and mysterious drop?
Then we should ask, what has happened in the last 7 days to cause that sudden drop?
OK, So who are they going to vote for then? Obama? McCaskill?
Because Akin said somethign stupid they will go for the communist baby-murder supporting libtards?
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/23/cowed-by-political-correctness
“An authentically conservative party would find Romney’s unprincipled position far more chilling than Akin’s gaffe. If unborn children gain or lose their right to life depending upon the circumstances of their conception, then the party has already conceded that that right doesn’t exist. Ronald Reagan understood the implications of that concession and never wavered in his defense of the right to life of all unborn children, not just some of them.
Instead of rejecting this media-determined culture of empty and opportunistic outrage, which rests on nothing more than poisonous Planned Parenthood-style propaganda, panicky GOP officials reinforced it this week by treating Akin as a monstrous leper. His stupid remark was thereby turned into a supposedly wicked one and treated as a great crisis for the party.
A party less cowed by political correctness and less in thrall to conventional wisdom wouldn’t have cannibalized its own so quickly. “
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“Romney’s support among women is consistent before and after the Akin affair, 44% support him now and 44% supported him in July. “
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so why aren’t any women leaving?
maybe because conservative women weren’t offended?
...even here on FR, many ladies have said Akin was clumsy,
but correct.
there are false rape reports.
(will ONE honest Akin critic, tell me what term you would use, to discribe rapes that were not false accusations...
as even the FBI confirms occurs THOUSANDS of times EACH YEAR?)
...and stress can and does,
SOMETIMES inhibit conception, and SOMETIMES causes miscarriage.
...almost of of the vicious attacks on Akin here,
often misquoting him, are by men.
Frankly, Romney’s lightning fast condemnation of a true conservative, makes me more likely to NOT vote for Romney,
who MANY here are unenthusiastic about...
the REAL damage here, is being caused by the GOP-e,
showing a lack of any true support for conservative, Christian, values.
Makes no logical sense, except then I watch Freepers run screaming and yelling from candidates for all kinds of reasons.
So why should anyone vote for Obama because of what Akin said? Beats me but American elections always turn on really stupid stuff that doesn’t matter later.
I don’t feel anything Akin said identifies him as a bad person or as having bad policies, but this is the way the herd mentality works.
This is about the fifth or sixth time you’ve cut and pasted this response into a thread. Republican support for BOTH Romney and Akin has fallen, so your post does not support the point you think you are making.
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