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>> “ I am still pissed at him simply because it played right into the left’s hands and gave them the Macacca moment of the campaign.” <<

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Only because the GOPe went along with it. Hannity and Colter did way more damage than Akin did.

>> Only because the GOPe went along with it. Hannity and Colter did way more damage than Akin did.

Exactly. A complete failure of damage control.

It’s #ing amazing how much support Romney gets despite his voting record on abortion, yet this guy gets persecuted for a valueless adjective and a dubious theory. Nothing but petulance and hypocrisy at extreme levels.

Hannity and Colter did way more damage than Akin did.

You think independents and swing voters (who unfortunately cast the decisive votes in most elections) care about Hannity and Coulter?

This guy damaged himself. No one made him do it. And instead of manning up and admitting it, he climbs on his high horse and insists he's standing on principle.

Ironically, he's pulling the same trick that people accuse "RINOs" and "GOP-e" of; he's gambling that he can count on Conservative votes and contributions, even though he's outrageously bumbled the job he was given. Instead of advancing to home to collect his senate prize, he's crashed in the polls and has become a national laughingstock and a drag on other candidates throughout the country.

Many people are mad because he's tainting candidates in other races by association, and he doesn't care.

“Only because the GOPe went along with it. Hannity and Colter did way more damage than Akin did.”

So your position is that, but for Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter, Akin’s idiotic statements would not have been disseminated and would not have hurt his candidacy or that of other Republicans? Yeah, everyone’s at fault but the guy who said that women don’t get pregnant when they are “legitimately” raped. (And before you say anything, I know what he meant, and it was still stupid.)

I am 100% pro-life, and do not believe in exceptions for rape or incest. However, Todd Akin isn’t the only Missouri Republican who would vote 100% pro-life in the Senate—he just happens to be pretty much the only one who would lose to Claire McCaskill and thus have MO contribute a 100% pro-abortion Democrat to the U.S. Senate. There are plenty of ways in which Todd Akin can contribute positively to society and to the conservative and pro-life movements, but losing an eminently winnable U.S. Senate race against a pro-abortion Democrat is not one of them.

Todd Akin should drop out and allow the MO GOP designate someone to replace him on the ballot. Heck, I’m sure that Akin can work out a deal so that the GOP has already selected the replacement (in private) before he announces he’s stepping down so as to ensure that the replacement is someone acceptable to Akin. Doing so would be a terrific first step towards making up for the damage he has done to the pro-life movement.

This is ridiculous. Before Hannity said anything, before Coulter said anything, before any of the GOPe said anything, the hue and cry from many Republicans was “please drop out, Akin.”

And as “red” as Missouri is, it’s only 40% Republican. Last time I checked, 40% doesn’t win many elections. This isn’t Republicans’ fail. It’s Akin’s.