That’s fine.
But if the Republicans don’t get those 51 seats, you can kiss goodbye to the best chance of overturning anything that Obama has done over the last 4 years.
If nothing is overturned, Akins’ wonderful prolife record will be about as worthless as anything else.
But at least he’ll be pure, right?
And just to be clear, I am not saying that Akin should necessarily drop out.
I am saying, he should keep his mouth shut on topics he damn well knows, as a veteran politician, are not helpful to his cause or the cause of fellow Republicans.
I am not familiar with any male politician being vaulted into office because he commented on a woman’s reproductive processes.
If it’s not helpful, shut up. That is all I am saying.
Hopefully Akin will drop out of this thing. If the GOP and outside groups kept funding him the last two weeks, all we would have heard at both conventions is Akin, Akin, Akin. Since everyone in the GOP disowned the guy, including the party itself, the media couldn’t be completely dishonest, so they didn’t cover the guy that much, which was a good thing.
We can’t afford to lose this seat. But if it turns out we do, maybe people and state party leaders will have learned that we can’t nominate dingbats for high profile Senate seats just because they are “really conservative”. The other two candidates in that primary would have been much better candidates. They needed to keep dingbat Akin out of the primary to begin with.