Give me a break. It shouldn’t be baffling why someone would support a good, conservative public servant who made one innocent mistake that did no actual harm to anyone. That’s why truly principled guys who aren’t coldhearted political consultants who would throw any person or any principle under the bus in order to WIN WIN WIN are supporting him. This includes people like Huckabee, Mike Gallagher, Steve Deace and Steve King who have all spoken out in support of Akin’s staying in the race.
I am not sure if you are just naive or overly self righteous. On second thought, both. Please give me a break on the "one innocent mistake" bit. He is a man of well below average intelligence who has never done anything but represented a tiny district and used that office to employ his wife and son. He is the worst possible combination of being a career politician and being stupid. And he was elected by the McCaskill Campaign in a cross over "operation chaos" strategy. You are so naive to miss all that.
In his first debate with McCaskill, I’d tell Akin to say this for his closing statement:
“A vote for McCaskill is a vote for Obamacare. If you vote for McCaskill you’re even stupider than I am.”
I never said I was a campaign manager.