As I just posted in the other thread, conservatives can take back this country and win the majorities we need in the Senate and other elected offices if we simply locate and run articulate and smart conservative candidates like we have now done here in Wisconsin, ie. Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Ron Johnson.
If we keep putting up dope candidates like Akin, we will lose because soccer moms in the suburbs won’t vote for them. Just because Akin is 100 percent conservative doesn’t mean he’s a good candidate TO WIN ELECTION. The sooner people realize this concept, the better we will all be.
And if people want to keep whining that somehow it isn’t fair that the Dems can run their own set if dopes like Biden and Sheila Jackson Lee and still win races, I have no sympathy. That’s the way the rules are. Dem dopes are able to be elected. It is what is is.
But the sooner we recognize that we must adhere to a higher standard with guys like Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan, that’s the day we start to win more of these races.
I've watched a certain constituency here in Iowa foul the nest on a regular basis by insisting on some "evangelical" or "fundamentalist" Christian with conservative bona-fides... and who is also absolutely - and unfortunately - unelectable in the general either because they come across as John Brown lite or Deputy Dawg. More than once, I've been metaphorically excommunicated and condemned to Hell for calling attention to the problem.
Mr. niteowl77
Akin is going to ride this thing out and portray himself as martyr for the so-con purists, untainted by dirty notions of "electability." After he is thoroughly stomped in November, he will become a fixture at some so-con think tank. Maybe he will become co-host of Huckster's thoroughly unwatchable show.
But I hope Akin supporters realize that your guy is just another cynical politician, looking out for number one. And he is willing to aid and abet the most pro-abortion administration in history to save his own prospects.