Lancaster did that act so much better, too......
Posted on 08/26/2012 3:00:52 PM PDT by rhema
Support for Republican Todd Akin’s decision to stay in the Missouri Senate race has cratered and so has his favorability. Those findings come from two new polls conducted after Akin created a firestorm with his comment about “legitimate rape.”
Republicans, by a 47 percent to 37 percent margin, think he should drop out of the Senate contest against Democrat Claire McCaskill, and self-described Akin supporters believe the same by 50 percent to 34 percent, according to a Mason-Dixon survey. Only Democrats, sensing he’s likely to lose, want him to remain a candidate, 47 percent to 37 percent.
And in a poll for conservative groups, only 24 percent of Missouri voters looked favorably on Akin and 54 percent said they regard him unfavorably.
Before his rape comment two weeks ago, Akin had a solid lead over McCaskill. Republicans counted Missouri as a likely victory that would help them take control of the Senate. Now their chances look shaky.
While Romney did well in the poll for conservative organizations, leading President Obama in Missouri by 54 percent to 41 percent, Akin trailed McCaskill, 44 percent to 36 percent. A few weeks ago, he led by five percentage points. He was ahead by 11 percentage points among independents but now is 17 points behind. Independents, by 57 percent to 25 percent, want him to drop out.
Akin, however, has vowed to stay in the race. His freefall in the two polls will make that decision more difficult to defend.
Better watch it...
They’ll call you a Vichy Conservative.....
;=)
Aren’t you saying that if Akin doesn’t drop out, preservation of ObamaCare will be on Akin’s head? None of the other players behind the Louisiana Purchase and the Cornhusker Kickback who finally endorsed it—or Chief Justice Alito for denying the challenge to it—are to blame?
As for Bush, he ran a lousy campaign and lost votes to Perot over the Read My Lips pledge. It was his election to lose and he gave it away. Yet Perot was scapegoated for it. As part of the GOPe, Bush could pull off that hat trick among the Party gullible. Were he a genuine conservative, he would have been excoriated for all time.
Likewise, because he’s a conservative, Akin will be blamed for plenty of things he had no influence or control over in November.
Schwarzenegger, McCain, Dole, Elder Bush... We do so well with the reach-across-the-aisle moderates.
Every Senate seat has been accounted for. The seat Akin is running for has been considered an easy pick up for the GOP.
If we do not win the majority in the Senate we cannot repeal ObamaCare (or as you call it “ObamaScare”).
So, yes if Akin loses and because of his loss we do not gain enough conrol in the Senate to repeal Obamacare... he owns it. Yes!
Is there anyone who is more harmful to the GOP than Mike Huckabee? He essentially pushed McCain on us 4 years ago. Today, it’s Akin. FAIL.
So you believe in passing the buck.
A very unusual position for a "conservative."
But really, we Thomas Sowell fans should not be arguing! ;-) :-D
There’s a big difference between making a mistake and calling Paul Ryan the President (which I think would be a great idea) and claiming that women who are raped can control things so that they don’t get pregnant.
It would be easier to make a list of those in the GOP left, center, right who do not have an issue with Akin at this point.
Huckabee, the man responsible for giving us John McCain 4 years ago is behind Akin today. There's one for your list.
Call me an extremist but I consider that man a RINO.
Actually about 33 miles. But why be accurate now? Look, I don’t mean to just pick on you, but I have to say this. FR has been a site that has really intelligent people who do their homework. Unlike DU, where they just spout off anything. But things have seemed to change here.
Here is a recent example. Tennessee Nana saw a headline about Romney’s formal nomination. She became apopletic and went nuts on him (because she is blinded by her hatred of him) believing that it meant there would be no roll call. I challenged her, but she was too embarrassed to respond. Unless the weather intervenes to really cut it short, there will be a roll call on Tuesday. It took me just a couple minutes of research to show she was wrong. Of course, she will not admit it.
If Akin were to step aside, I wanted to learn about the process. So I called the Sec of State’s office in Missouri to get info and I posted the applicable relevant law. I got on the phone and talked to one of the people from the Central Committee who would name a successor if he drops out. If I made comments here, I wanted my comments to be taken seriously.
I am seeing people here just pull things out of the air because they are thinking with their hearts instead of their heads.
This election cycle in Missouri, many in the GOP saw an opportunity to take back a Senate seat. Several very good conservative pro-lifers ran.
No, the progressive RINOs in the GOP leadership did not turn on the conservative because they did not like his positions. That idea is nuts. They turned on him because he gave the RATS an issue that they exploited immediately, doing damage beyond Missouri. He allowed the other side to mock pro-lifers as goofballs. And so they pulled the plug on $5 million dollars because that money would be flushed down the toilet in Missouri and be of better use elsewhere.
It is noble to take a principled stand. But we must choose our battles. Bad news in Missouri -— Todd Akin cannot win and the seat is going to stay with a pro-abort. Possible good news for Missouri -— other pro-life conservatives, who are not perceived by some conservatives and the majority of MO independents to be out of their minds, have a very good shot to get rid of the pro-abort.
It is a principled stand to stick up for Akin. But it is also foolish and short-sighted. I understand people wanting to stand up to the “establishment.” But we must be smart enough to choose our battles. There is a very good chance that Brunner, Steelman or a couple others, equally conservative and pro-life can win the seat. And the money will pour in from across the country if Akin withdraws.
I think I have a good solution but have no idea if either the Central Committee or Akin would do it. Let Akin name his replacement if he withdraws. That person would certainly be pro-life and conservative. Unfortunately, Akin’s ego is in the way, he is delusional, and his advisers are his wife and son. If Missouri costs the GOP the Senate, he will be the most despised man in America.
And here I thought it was the RATS who had no sense of humor. I sit corrected.
Am I wrong in that Akin enjoyed the backing of the Missouri GOP in running for the seat? He was the “GOPe”! How can you serve six terms in Congress and not be “Establishment”?
Akin got on very well with the GOP, right up until his self-inflicted wound.
This is outright false
Most of the endorsements in the primary went to Steelman...Palin’s “Establishment” candidate. Most of the Missouri GOP supported her. Note that she came in third
Brunner got the endorsement from the Chamber of Commerce, which is pro-Amnesty. Akin definitely did not get such an endorsement.
Akin mainly got support from some pro-life US House members (Steve King-Iowa, most notably). None of the GOP-E supported Akin in the primary....which obviously tells one with at least a 2-digit IQ that Akin is not being attacked for his comment, but for his conservatism
Now the PhonyCons have to resort to falsehoods. The Saul Alinsky playbook
“Move the focus back to real issues : THE CASE AGAINST CLAIRE”
That is the obvious path. What you fail to do, is tell me how he does this.
He doesn’t have any money. He has no support within the party, those are the ones who do all the leg work and spend countless unpaid hours making sure the campaign actually works.
Any attempt he makes, campaign stop, TV or radio appearance will be met by protests or the obligatory questions on rape and women’s reproductive functions.
Once the money is gone, which will be soon, he will be a struggling, isolated, pathetic shell of a candidate.
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