77 posted on Fri Aug 24 2012 17:54:39 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by hecht: “And he and his barefoot inbred trailer trash supporters will get 6% of the vote.”
Out of line, Hecht.
If you said that about Claire McCaskill I'd call you out for making offensive and unfounded comments that make Republicans look bad.
In Akin’s case, you are factually wrong in addition to highly offensive. He has six children. He married his wife in 1975 and in the 37 years of their marriage has had six children.
Why are you implying that a fellow conservative Republican is a homosexual pedophile?
Also, I'm not particularly fond of Ivy League educations, but Akin’s father and grandfather were both Harvard graduates and the family owned a steel company in St. Louis. That's not “barefoot inbred trailer trash,” as you put it.
Attack Akin for his stupid comment all you want. I've done so repeatedly. But don't circulate factually false claims.
I am quite a bit more conservative than Todd Akin theologically, but it looks to me as if this is a man who wasn't particularly liked by the mainstream Republican establishment and they're now trying to push him out.
Akin blew it, big time. No question about that. The only question left is what do we do now that he won't leave on his own. I don't think there's any answer to that question that doesn't involve Akin which won't lead to a McCaskill re-election.
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A Politician Whose Faith Is Central to His Persistence
By JOHN ELIGON
Published: August 21, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/us/politics/todd-akins-faith-is-central-to-his-politics.html
Akins agenda wins loyalty of Christian groups
By Stephanie McCrummen and David A. Fahrenthold
Published: August 22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/akins-congressional-legacy-small-but-his-support-among-christian-groups-is-big/2012/08/22/b2c2d98e-ec75-11e1-aca7-272630dfd152_story.html
Yeah, that comment was so offensive I didn’t even respond. But to add to yours, three of the Akin’s sons serve as Marine Corps officers too.
Man... people are absolutely losing their minds over this meaningless nonsense.
If our team cannot keep its eye on the ball, then it is going to get hit right in the eye with the ball.
From what I can see, Akin is not the insane, backwards, lunatic moron in the picture, but a good percentage of our voting base most certainly is exactly that.
hecht isn’t long for this forum.
I think the barefoot inbred trailer-trash remark meant those who support this loon Akin.
I won’t disagree with him.
Akin is not going to leave this race, and I expect alllll his supporters across this nation to send him money now.
Defeat Claire, send her back to her nursing home empire to pass out ‘pills instead of procedures’.... make her be her brother's keeper!!!!! Repeal Oromery care.
We need to stop making excuses for bad behavior and start condemning it. Akin's comment was NOT bad behavior. What he was exposing is the bad behavior.
Now we need a few hundred more Akin's to take solid stands for not only the unborn but America, our Constitution and our CHRISTIAN way of life.
JMHO