Posted on 09/11/2012 7:18:04 AM PDT by doug from upland
No Pay, No Play: Akin TV Ads Canceled
Television ads for Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin have been canceled after Akin's campaign failed to pay the whole bill, Talking Points Memo reports.
By Maggie Rotermund Email the author 5:30 am
Rep. Todd Akin is facing a new round of bad publicity today after reports have emerged that he has failed to pay for his television advertising on time.
Talking Points Memo reports the Akin campaign’s TV ad buy with KOMU, a NBC affiliate in Columbia, was canceled.
According to KMOX, the campaign had paid the first half of the buy, but the station did not receive the other half. KOMU also said that it has confirmed that other stations have been put in the same position.
Sarah Mcadoo, an accounting assistant for KSHB-TV in Kansas City, confirmed to KOMU that Akin's ads had been pulled from their log. The Akin campaign told KOMU that the payment is forthcoming.
According to the KOMU story, Ryan Hite, campaign spokesman for Todd Akin, said:
"Our media buyers are constantly adjusting our strategy according to different media markets in Missouri. According to my understanding of this specific instance, air time was reserved, an initial payment was made, and when their ad schedule was set in stone, the other final portion of the payment is being sent tomorrow."
This follows on the heels of Akin's comments regarding legitimate rape. He has lost the financial backing of several national sources.
Conservative super PAC Crossroads GPS, founded by former Karl Rove, pulled its ads from the Missouri Senate race. Crossroads had been spending money on ads against McCaskill.
If Akin loses the race its because he’s an idiot who can’t keep saying incredibly stupid things.
He has a history of these gaffes.
Please see #80
Of course all the socons here love him and thinks this moron can still win.
They’re as stupid as he is.
No, a private business suspended service to a chiseling DEADBEAT who wouldn’t pay his bills.
Tell that chiseler you support to pay his bills, then.
Oh, he isn’t bothering me. The Republican panhandlers and grifters are the ones annoying me, like mosquitoes that have access to my telephone number, email and municipal addresses. Bums and parasites with DC and Mass. area codes, but panhandlers same as the yard guy with the rusted truck and the bent weedeater.
Rove and Priebus said that because Akin isn’t a team player and never learned the concept of taking one for your wingman.
He’s an egotistical narcissist, just like Barry.
Maybe the Huck has donated to Akin, do you have further confirmation?
These socons will cost us the senate over ONE damn issue.
Its a revolting prospect.
Boneheaded evangelicals who follow Huckabee aroujnd like puppy dogs....
That’s just you dozen dinosaurs.
Remember when “Reince” Preibus was running to replace Michael Steele and him and all the other candidates said they were the ones who cherished the TEA party support and agreed with TEA party ideals... Remember that?
Because they sure don't
Don’t you know that to the nmore unhinged evangelicals here that because of what they saikd Palin and West are now baby-killers and homo marriage-lovers.
These people here are completely nuts.
lol.
Yep, they have totally forgotten
Yes, a mess has been created. What if he is wrong and the money does not pour in after Sept 25? I don’t think it will. I guess it depends on the polls. No one wants to feel they are throwing away money, a finite resource.
Again comes the question - where are the people who vociferously defend him? Where is their money? If they believe in him, they would help get his ads out there.
You’re beginning to read as an unhinged drunk...go sleep it off.
Put the cap back on the Johnny Walker and go take a nap.
“Akin’s mistake was easily survivable. The GOPe is forfeiting this seat, presumably to make a point.
What that point is is anybody’s guess.”
Their point is that Social Conservatives are NOT really welcome in the GOP. IF Social Conservatism is a priority to you, then they don’t what you as a GOP candidate. The only thing the GOPe wants from Social Conservatives are our votes...nothing more. They certainly aren’t going to honor ANY of our values.
It is really quite a study in political realities isn’t it.
We have a strongly conservative six term Congressman. He was so strongly bound to his positions that he was never dependable or even possible for compromise to the Republican Majority in the House during the first half of the Bush Administration.
His positions were often stated with hyperbole, leaving a treasure trove of one liners, both in context and out of context, for a weakened “McCackles” to utilize in the general prompting her and her promoters to actually promote him as the “true conservative” opponent against two others that were each somewhat hampered by their own baggage with state republicans.
He gets the nomination as less controversial to conservative voters than the others — they each were only strong C+ pols— and what does he do as soon as he starts interviews after getting the nod?
He takes a TV reporter he is familiar with and seeing himself as the vast repository of “teachable moments” tries to inject a piss poor worded comment about the most extreme instances of abortion justification into his campaign — because he is so principled and smart, don’t you see.
The guy that never compromises is then left swinging in the wind trying to claw his way out of a hole that he himself fashioned in his road to election.
It begs the question, are generalities always flawed? Is successful politics always the “art of the possible.’ Is the “constitution a suicide pact”? Is everyone a RINO to someone else? Is Missouri going the way of the Republican Party in Kansas — so deeply divided that they can’t elect an executive or run a legislature — all without a liberal wing?
It would make a fine docu-drama.
I live in MO and what killed him was the magic uterus. What people up here took was he think if you are raped and get pregnant, then it wasn’t really rape.
Bottom line is that a lot of people on here seem to be ok with losing the senate if they can feel like they are stcking it to the GOP. I agree with palin who says he should quit, and not claire mccaskill who wants him to stay in.
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