This is all about political correctness, and there’s only one right answer to it.
When a good conservative candidate is targeted by the left for voicing perfectly legitimate speech, conservatives and the GOP should circle the wagons and go all out in support of the candidate, including money bombs and funding increases from the top levels of the GOP.
What I’ve seen is a tail-between-the-legs surrender by people like Limbaugh and all the talk show hosts, including Hannity, who parrot him.
Everyday conservatives like us should go back to our independence of mind and get ourselves unstuck from this mess of political correctness.
It’s not “all” about political correctness. It’s about communicating your values to voters. There’s millions of people who are extremely principled people who aren’t politicians because they’re poor communicators. You cannot be a successful politician and be a poor communicator.
And I’ll let you in on a secret, this interview was in the can for several days and Akin’s team didn’t get out in front of it.
It’s a bumbling team of tone-deaf nepotism.