RNC, doing what it does.
RINO GOPes will cut off conservatives but did they ever cut off Snowe, Specter, Crist or Scozzafava?
If Akin loses the race, it’ll be the fault of Tokyo Rove and the GOP-e.
They’ll cost us the Senate and a chance to repeal Obamacare (which is all the deniability they want), after all Mitt loves state controlled health care.
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.
As God is my witness I sincerely regret EVER thinking that Rove was good for Conservative Republicans.
There is NO GOOD/DECENT reason to stop ads against McCaskill. He doesn’t have to support Akin directly, he can still work to get Claire out of the senate.
Two posts already blaming the party when of course they have absolutely nothing to do with it and is entirely Akin’s fault.
Missouri Republican Todd Akin said he isn’t dropping out of his U.S. Senate race, anticipating money from party supporters may start flowing his way once a Sept. 25 deadline passes for him to petition the state’s courts to remove his name from the ballot.
Back on Capitol Hill for the first time since he said in an Aug. 19 television interview that “legitimate rape” rarely results in pregnancy, Akin told reporters yesterday that national Republican groups may reconsider and back his bid to unseat Democrat Claire McCaskill.
“I would expect, if that’s going to happen, you’ll see it after about the 25th,” Akin, a Missouri congressman, said after leaving the House floor, where he chatted with a number of fellow Republican lawmakers.
...Courtesy of Claire McCaskill.
What that point is is anybody's guess.
The MSM continues to savagely attack Todd Akin by denying him access to TV commercials.
This ahole wants to go it alone, fine. Let ‘s see the checkbooks come out.
Nice guys finish last.
And, no, I’m not talking about Akin as the nice guy here.
I’m talking about the republicans, who cannot play in the same field as the democrats when it comes to trying to win.
Win at any cost is why the democrats win elections, and republicans, because they’re trying to keep/gain that “nice guy” image, will continue losing races that should be won, some of them easily.
The democrats would have defended Akin, at any cost, because, to them, winning the senate is the biggest priority, and it wouldn’t matter to them how big an asshole any of their candidates prove to be, as long as he or she wins.
Why haven’t Huckabee and the Akin supporters sent him enough money for ads? They just like to shoot off their mouths, but writing checks is a little more difficult. 40 bucks from 250,000 of his true believers would give him a million bucks for ads. Perhaps in these tough times people don’t like wasting their money.
I was pissed at Akin at first, but now I am all for him. He is no Boner or McConnell, who fold up like a cheap suit at the first hint of Lefty criticism.
FUKR.
Akin has said before that he does not need the help of national Republicans, then why the need to whine about it.
The very least Akin would do is help kill OC, and it is a dead ass cinch that McCaskill will not. That reason alone would be a good one to elect Akin.
As far as I can tell, McCaskill is luckier than a 3 peckered dog....benefiting from a perceived stupid statement.
She should not be winning, and I don't think that the voters of Mo will be taken in by her....(but on the other hand...I am often wrong and disappointed)..
Huckabee needs to put his $$$$ where his mouth is.
Huckster really should fork over some of his huge fortune to akin since he insisted akin stay in the race.
When is the last day he can withdraw? On the next day, conservatives need to get behind him with everything we’ve got.
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.