[muawiyah]

But the cold hard facts are that HE DID play footsie with them.

This was an open primary as well. THEY chose Akin. There's a reason for that, and it wasn't because they intended to vote for him in November.

[Uncle Chip]

But the cold hard facts are that HE DID play footsie with them.

Wrong. That she wanted to run against Akin is true but to say that he played footsie with her is a lie. She ran campaign adds attacking all three candidates, including Akin, and criticizing him as "too conservative for Missouri". That commment encouraged conservatives undecided regarding the three running to vote for Akin -- but to go beyond that is a prefabrication unbecoming conservatives on this forum.