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Todd Akin reaffirms he's staying in the Senate race
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 8/24/2012 | NICHOLAS J.C. PISTOR

Posted on 08/24/2012 2:53:44 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies

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To: xzins

You’re voting for Goode?

A vote for a third party is a vote for 0bama, just as supporting Akin guarantees Claire that seat.

You’re even more deluded that I thought.

G-damn purists and socons are going to louse everything up.


161 posted on 08/24/2012 5:42:59 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: Mercat

No we DON’T want an abortion discussion.

That turns off the center, and we need ‘em to win the White House.

JOBS AND THE ECONOMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


162 posted on 08/24/2012 5:45:49 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Surely you’re not that thickheaded....


163 posted on 08/24/2012 5:46:51 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

asserting that he’s never had the support of the Republican party establishment anyway.
______________________________________

Pro-life Pro-life Conservatives dont usually...


164 posted on 08/24/2012 5:48:17 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: tsowellfan

“Anything less = ObamaCare”

Wake the f-up. Romneycare = Obamacare. You ain’t gettin’ anythin’ less!


165 posted on 08/24/2012 5:49:46 PM PDT by sagar
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To: mlizzy

Junk science from a slanted so-con think tank.

I wanna see peer-reviewed NEJM-level proof.

Which doesn’t exist of course.


166 posted on 08/24/2012 5:50:30 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: not2worry

I live in Missouri and will never ever just let McCaskill get re-elected just because I am mad at Akin...She is a liar and votes in lockstep with the liberals. I can’t stand 6 more years of HER!


167 posted on 08/24/2012 5:51:02 PM PDT by ladyellen
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To: sagar

So if your daughter, who may be in college or just starting a lucrative career, gets raped and knocked-up.

You’d force her to have it????? destroy her life all over again? Add that to her being a rape victim?????

Look, I’m pro-life and against abortion, but even I have to draw the line here.

(What kind of daddy are you?)


168 posted on 08/24/2012 5:53:28 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: RIghtwardHo

, he has nationalized an abortion debate
______________________________________

Good

it needs to be front and center...

God could care less about taxes and idiot multimillionaires...

But He does care that we have murdered 50+ MILLION unborn babies...


169 posted on 08/24/2012 5:54:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: conservaterian
He better, or I'm declaring war on Missouri.


170 posted on 08/24/2012 5:57:58 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Sorry Jim, I gotta disagree with you here.

I’m very good with math and numbers.....being a musician has its advantages.....and the numbers tell me that Akin just can’t win at this point.

Not unless the press and everyone else has mass amnesia that covers the last week.


171 posted on 08/24/2012 6:01:43 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: Charles Henrickson; JustSayNoToNannies; wagglebee; xzins
49 posted on Fri Aug 24 2012 17:30:02 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Charles Henrickson: “However, if Akin is the only alternative to McCaskill on November 6, I will still vote for him. And, after September 25, I may even get a yard sign and a bumper sticker. Here's how I may have to persuade people to vote for Akin: ‘Look, he may be a doofus, but at least he's better than McCaskill, and he may give us a Senate majority, and he will push the button the right way on votes—repealing Obamacare, for instance.’”

I think we agree.

Rev. Henrickson and I both live in Missouri. One of Akin’s primary opponents, Sarah Steelman, is my former state senator. Akin is Rev. Henrickson's congressman. I think we both know the candidates pretty well, but lots of non-Missourians on this board seem to think they know a lot about how to win Missouri elections.

I spent some time yesterday talking to a couple of people on the national level about this election on Akin’s chances in rural Missouri, and my statement was that if Akin decides to stay, he may be able to win using a social conservative base which is very upset and thinks the Republican Party is ignoring our concerns. He was not the Republican favorite to win the primary, he wasn't particularly popular in the Republican circles that are now attacking him, and his attitude seems to be that they haven't done anything to help him before, so why listen now?

That sounds a lot like a SoCon version of the more secular tea party anti-establishment attitudes that make people very popular on Free Republic. So why all the outrage on Free Republic against Akin? Right now I think Akin's core supporters in Missouri and the national social conservative movement think Akin says stupid things, not that he's wrong on the issues that matter.

That could change and Akin better not make any more gaffes. That one was a doozy and I don't think he can survive chronic foot-in-mouth syndrome.

I do have to say a few good things for McCaskill, however. She knows her state and she's kept a focus on military-related issues. We could do a lot worse as far as Democrats go. She knows she will never carry our county, but still spends a lot of time around here as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Her strategy, as with the Carnahan family, is to keep from being blown away in rural Missouri by getting old traditional conservative Democrats to vote for her instead of the Republicans.

172 posted on 08/24/2012 6:04:27 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Well, I recommend we just shut up about it then. He’s the candidate.


173 posted on 08/24/2012 6:07:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Score one for Akin. Two losses to the worthless overhyped MSM, their overpaid pundits and Party hacks.


174 posted on 08/24/2012 6:07:41 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)
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To: sagar
So essentially you'd rather LOOSE the senate with an idiot like Akin than win control with a moderate who would vote against ObamaAkincare? That's what it sounded like to me.
175 posted on 08/24/2012 6:08:28 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Thats all ten memebrs of his Election campaign are family members
( he is the DC Meal ticket) and they all post here as part of that TOP NOTCH campaign team.
Lets not forget Claire’s staff are working for him here too !

lets drive this senate seat off the cliff together !!!
Yeahhhh


176 posted on 08/24/2012 6:11:04 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !H)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Thats all ten members of his Election campaign are family members
( he is the DC Meal ticket) and they all post here as part of that TOP NOTCH campaign team.
Lets not forget Claire’s staff are working for him here too !

lets drive this senate seat off the cliff together !!!
Yeahhhh


177 posted on 08/24/2012 6:11:14 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !H)
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To: apoliticalone
Michelle Malkin , Levin, Palin and Rush are all evil party hacks !

Do you work in Chitown for a guy named Axelrod by chance ?

178 posted on 08/24/2012 6:14:06 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !H)
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To: darrellmaurina
I expect these out of state Akin supporters to put up or shut up.

Akin is in this race and he needs campaign cash... Missouri is larger than a big military base. AND Oromery care is just as life threatening to our senior citizens as any of these liberals lust to abort the unborn. Claire while pretending she does not know Obama still voted for Omery care.

179 posted on 08/24/2012 6:15:04 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Have you donated to the 'resurrection of Akin' yet?)
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To: SeminoleCounty

I will.

Steve King is a nobody from nowhere.

His support means BUPKUS!


180 posted on 08/24/2012 6:15:14 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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