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To: DallasBiff
My understanding is that Mr. Akins is a mental lightweight and only won a 3 way Republican primary because he was supported by the Democrat Party and Democrat funding. Sarah Palin backed a different candidate and most conservative groups also backed another candidate. The two conservative candidates split the Republican vote and Akins won a narrow victory by getting Democrats and to vote in the Republican primary.

Then the Democrat controlled MSM asked the dummy Akins the standard gotcha questions about rape and abortion etc and just stood back and watched him self destruct. Then Democrat money men(Soros?) promised Akins large financial contributions if he would stay in the race and not make way for a more intelligent candidate.

Claire the liberal was dead in the water. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence could have easily beaten her. But the Democrats maneuvered to get the one candidate in the entire state too dumb to beat her as her opponent.

30 posted on 08/25/2012 11:41:29 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective
My understanding is that Mr. Akins is a mental lightweight and only won a 3 way Republican primary because he was supported by the Democrat Party and Democrat funding.

That sounds like one of those nonsense memes that people keep repeating because it helps their cause despite them having no evidence to support it.

The two conservative candidates split the Republican vote and Akins won a narrow victory by getting Democrats and to vote in the Republican primary.

Akin is STAUNCHLY CONSERVATIVE with a far more conservative voting record than Romney or Ryan. He voted against sequestration defense spending cuts and against No Child Left Behind to name a few Ryan was wrong on. As for Democrats voting in the Republican primary, show me the evidence of that. That kind of silliness is often talked about, but rarely if ever has been proven to happen in big enough numbers to affect an election. In this case it would also assume that Akin was seen as a bad candidate by many people, even though he won 6 consecutive house terms. That doesn't even pass the smell test. So enough of compiling this unsubstantiated conjecture to try and bolster your case.

38 posted on 08/25/2012 11:49:16 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: detective
You have the basics correct.

Unfortunately, we are being spammed with fiction writers trying to create "The Legend of Todd Akin, Conservative Martyr". They wanna pretend it was just one little mistake, then cover their ears and sing "LA-LA-LA-LA-I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" when you try to warn them about all the oppo research McCaskill has on this guy, and that's why she helped him win. And they want to go back and reclassify all those conservatives who were begging him to get out as "RINOS" and "DEMS" and GOPe. And apparently, Akin is the only pro-life politician in Missouri.

There are people still trying to defend what he said...even though he won't.

Akin prolly has a blue ox named Babe...

67 posted on 08/26/2012 12:29:49 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: detective
And they executed their strategy with the same evil brilliance as Admiral Yamamoto did at Pearl Harbor


75 posted on 08/26/2012 12:46:39 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimeticare Iddio!!!!!!)
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To: detective

Exactly. Not ready for prime time. The guy’s a total stiff.


87 posted on 08/26/2012 1:23:04 AM PDT by mindburglar (I'm not "The Man" anymore. Stick it to someone else.)
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