Akin’s fault... he’s a doorknob...
The same people that howled like little girls about Christine O’Donnell costing us a seat. Our voters recognized in 2010 that having Castle in the Senate would do much more long term harm than good as a left leaning moderate from a Democrat state and rejected him. All Rove and the RNC intelligentsia could see was one less seat.
Now, they will refuse to back Akin, even if he is winning. Stupid. I wanted Akin out. I think he made an atrocious decision staying in the race. If he does recover, we should be behind his campaign 100%. My guess is there is still wrangling to get him out of the race, and this message is sent to help accomplish that goal. From that perspective, I see why it was said. It is a strong statement, though, and one that can not really be walked back. If they changed course in October, it would now just bring the whole issue back into the forefront nationally.
Something still stinks here. Why would a candidate do this so near the election?
Guys like this wine-sipping, biscuit eating bastard Priebus are the main reason I've not sent a dime to the RNC in ten years and won't!
Priebus is playing it smart, here. The money the NSRC was going to spend on Akin can be better used in other states (like mine, Ohio), and saying so early will force Huckabee to open up his coffers and get his fundamentalists to fund Akin and put him over the top.
This has gotten way past ridiculous. Akin is the candidate. He’s the choice of MO Republicans. Get over it, we need that seat.
FU Prince Riebus.
Aikin’s. He’s a horse’s ass.
A seat in Missouri is not worth the Oval Office and this is NOT the same thing as O’Donnell or any of those other cases.
Its not a case of Rinos versus conservatives.
Its a case of decency versus a stupid ass who said something totally illogical and nonesensical and threatens our entire effor tin 2012.
This could be Akin’s winning strategy. “I’m standing up to the RNC. I’ll answer to you, not the party that abandoned me”.
Every time that I read a RINO’s attack on Todd Akin, I send him a contribution. RINO Priebus’ comments added $40 from me to Rep. Akin’s campaign this morning.
But he's the candidate, and he ain't leaving.
We are stuck with him.
LearJet McCaskill is vulnerable. She can be beaten, even by Akin.
But let's just piss the seat away and give it to her deliberately because...
...why?
No, the stupidest comment ever made was by Akin himself.
Buhkarin must be purged! He is not a comrade, and must be purged from the Party! Death to revanchist, counterrevolutionary wreckers and saboteurs!
Mr. Akin is, by his own doing, radioactive.
If not used by other Republicans as a foil - look, we’re not the extremists that Mr. Akin is - all he does is bring them ill will.
Even if his one race is made winnable, giving support to him now gives the bumper sticker media - and the Party of Satan - plenty of cheap shots to take at Gov. Romney and all other Republicans, including ALL Republican Senate candidates.
It doesn’t matter whether Mr. Akin is a good guy or a bad guy (although, to me, he comes off smarmy as Hell). What matters is that he appears to be a poor, inept, inappropriate candidate and spokesman for the things he believes. He shoved his foot so far down his throat, it came out the other end of his alimentary canal.
If he refuses to step aside, let him pull out a victory, if he can, with his own resources, and the resources of whomever he can personally persuade to help out.
But NO party money should go to this clown. NO Republicans should tar themselves with his brush. He’s got as much brainpower as Joe Biden. Maybe.
And if you want to cry about how unfair that is, go right ahead. At least you’ll be telling the truth. Unfortunately, you’ll also be irrelevant. We don’t control many institutions of the media or of education or of any one of a number of other important opinion-making institutions in the United States. So, to win, we need to be twice as good, twice as smart and twice as careful, not half as good, half as smart, and entirely reckless.
It seems that Claire McCaskill was right to pay good money to help him get the nomination - he really is the turd in the punchbowl. She paid her money and she hit the jackpot, obtaining as an opponent the biggest boob her money could buy.
I sure hope he doesn’t have to wind up eating those words.
Well well well -- doesn't that comment say it all.
The GOPe would rather have Claire McCasket in that Senate seat than Todd Akin. He has finally admitted what conservatives in Missouri have suspected since this kerfuffel began.
Saying Reince Priebus is a RINO is the stupid comment.
He is probably the brightest RNC chair we’ve had in decades.
Gross stupidity by Priebus...he’s dead to me.
Yet we're supposed to blindly support Romney because 'he's the Republican nominee'.
[snort]
Another-do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do moment brought to you by the GOPe.
The problem is that Akin’s comments were so toxic that supporting him - even if he can win (which he can’t) - would hurt other Republican candidates. Winning Missouri that way could cost us Connecticut, for example, or the White House.