They can always create a war on women just by lying and twisting words - IF WE LET THEM. And that’s what this is about. Appeasement doesn’t work. If we let them twist these words they will twist EVERYTHING, knowing we will eat our own if they only use their bully pulpit to make us feel scared.
What Akin said was not politically smart. It was not a vicious attack on women. It is the dems who have a war against women - they who cover up statutory rape by giving young girls abortions, they who act as if a woman becoming a perpetrator is somehow an answer to having been a victim, they whose policies have left a whole culture of women without any fathers for their babies because the papas know they can screw whenever and wherever with no personal consequences...
We can’t shrink from these people. That’s the only way they win, and it emboldens them to even more blatant lies. It’s just like the war on terror. Appeasement doesn’t work. As much as we want this cup to pass so we don’t have to drink from it, if we let this one go there will be a million more just like it right behind this one. If instead we take the offensive and show them that this plan will NOT work - will NOT divide and incapacitate us - they will have to slither away and look for a different opportunity.
For me, politically speaking, since my goal is taking the Senate and the Presidency as I'm sure yours is as well,Aiken fell into a trap that several others have also fallen into.
It's the Trent Lott/George Allen macaaca comment crap all over again.
Our side is so worried about what the DBM will say about us,what lie they will spin next, that we over apologize when we do make mistakes.Big mistake
And,,,since there is a well known double standard of dems getting away with anything from "better put some ice on that" to "if I don't solve this problem in three years its going to be a one term proposition". Meanwhile we pay for every mistake/misspeak in near death strikes from both the left and our own.It's imperative that when we do miscue we recover immediately or suffer the consequences.
If Akin had made a simple apology and then got back to the issues of the day such as McCaskill's vote for obamcare, no budget for three years, etc., etc. things might have turned out different. But, instead he's apologized over and over and beginning to look as weak as Allen or Lott.
Once you look weak, once there is blood in the water,its all over politically.The rats use the DBM as their print/tv slaves while we have to win the old fashioned way by telling the truth.
Yes its great for us to stand by our man and do the right thing pretending we can overcome media bias whether we can or not but its far better to win elections.Would I rather be pure and stand by someone who made a simple mistake--of course.With the stakes this high is it the right thing to do this time.Probably not.
We win by being strong making few mistakes and when we do screw up never ever letting the left get the upper hand. IMHO, its too late for Akin.I could be wrong.
Your judgment is always as good as it gets,but at least you know where I stand.