No, it is Akin’s fault for making those remarks and his subsequent selfishness in refusing to step aside and keeping the story alive, essentially negating the momentum that we had been building nationwide heading into our convention completely. He did this to himself, and damaged the party nationwide.
Now I guess this latest flub (not nearly as serious, but it just compounds on top of everything else) of failing to pay for his TV ads based on your post is now also someone else’s fault.
It was a mis-speak. This dead horse has been beaten already. The polls indicate the people of Missouri are still behind Akin, and do you really think voters in MO are going to vote for Romney and then McCaskill?
“It’s someone else’s fault” is simplistic, don’t you think? All party candidates are supposed to enjoy financial support from the party. There’s no reason for the GOP-e to withhold funds. The GOP-e jumped on the SRM bandwagon with the talking-points, but they could have still provided financial support.
If Akins loses, and it’s close, a case can be made it was from lack of advertising. We’ll see.
You are quite naive if you think that KOMU is telling the truth here.
Ask anyone at a radio/tv station and they will tell you that NO political ad is ever run unless it is paid for in advance -- and that goes for everyone from dogcatcher to POTUS -- and includes KOMU.
So the claim that the Akin campaign owes KOMU anything is a blatant prefabrication. The station would not have run a campaign add unless they already had the money in house.