But that's not the plan Akin followed. Instead, he did this: said something indefensible, gave two incoherent interviews to reinforce the idiocy, stayed in the race until it was too late to easily replace him with an equally conservative candidate who could win, and then complained about the GOP abandoning him.
Quite a plan!
What was indefensible that couldn’t be forgiven with an apology?
“until it was too late to easily replace him with an equally conservative candidate”
There was NO WAY for the VOTERS to replace Akin....the mechanisms in place would NOT really take them into consideration. The names bantered around to “replace” him were not as “conservative” as him....and he WAS elected by the largest vote.
NO, he did the right thing to stay in the race. Huckabee did the right thing to support him.
I’m going to get a big laugh IF he wins (after the GOP establishment failed to bring him down) but Romney loses the state (a pick of the GOP establishment). That would be really funny to me.
IF a person isn’t first a social conservative, then they are not at all a real conservative.