[Uncle Chip]

He can represent the mainstream of our values, just don’t let him be the one to go into the public square to argue and defend them... he can’t talk them...

He talked just fine the other day on the radio when he said that it is unfair to just selfishly abandon those who have worked so hard for his campaign and just surrender the results of their hard labor to the demands of party elites few of whom wanted him as their candidate in the first place.

[dps.inspect]

Good points all, but he branded himself. At a moment when the main argument was preserving freedom and a free market, Akin sucked all the momentum away and made himself bigger than anything else in politics. In other words he upstaged the main show, all spotlights were on him.

Now if he had designed it that way, we may be saying, "what a great politician". But since, by every measure, he merely stumbled and flipped the bench that threw the bucket, that hit the cat and made him jump, that scared the old maid, that dropped her cain, that hit the cow and made her kick, that kicked the wall, that knocked the kerosene lantern onto the floor, that broke and lit the house on fire, that burned down Chicago... ya, you'd ask that guy to leave.