Unless voter enthusiasm returns to the Demwits, we can win this thing.
By defenders I mean folks like Huckabee that should have been advising the right thing but told him to tough it out. Akin has a coterie of supporters who told him to stay in. They gave him the wrong counsel at the wrong time. They will be the ones who have cost us this senate seat.
Many conservative leaders and pundits and a majority of Missouri voters want Akin to step aside. akin put himself above wider considerations and will cost us a senate seat.
” He is not leaving.”
It is not too late for Akin to realize he cant win and change his mind. 9/24 is the real deadline.
it’s nice to think you can pull it out, but ... Akin cant. Akin is running 16 points behind the top of the ticket. His favorables are worse than McCaskill’s - the only republican alive apparently who accomplished that feat. Wouldnt you rather have Brunner or Steelman in there right now?
here’ a comment from the hotair article:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/25/mason-dixon-mo-poll-romney-up-5043-over-obama/
“McCaskill wont start running negative ads against this clown until after 9/25 when he cant petition to get out. I really really never imagined Huckabee was this politicaly stupid.... Do they not understand that the other candidates the GOP could put up are also pro life. That it does not all ride on this idiot alone. That you cant change the world until you first get in. By the way Huck has compared us to Union goons for wanting this clown out.”
Last point:
“Unless voter enthusiasm returns to the Demwits, we can win this thing.” ... the Democrats ‘war on women’ theme is their pathetic attempt to gin up voter turnout with their base, and alas Akin’s rape comments has given the Dems the weapon to do just that. Akin has been a givft to the Dems.