Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
Say you must obey the GOP
Posted on 09/17/2012 11:37:16 AM PDT by doug from upland
Rep. Todd Akin’s wife, Lulli Akin, says the Republican Party’s attempts to push her husband out of the Missouri Senate race — over his false assertion that women who are raped rarely get pregnant — are like rape itself. RELATED: Akin TV Ad Buy Canceled — For Failure To Pay Station
She also believes the GOP’s abandonment is on par with the tyranny that launched the American Revolution.
Akin’s wife isn’t the first one to compare Akin’s explosive rape comments, and the ensuing fallout, to rape: Bryan Fischer said the party’s treatment of the embattled candidate had made Akin “a victim of forcible assault.”
Lulli Akin made the charge in a new National Journal profile, which reveals a family affair of a campaign — Akin’s campaign manager is his son, and Lulli is also a key player.
Lulli Akin says in the profile that she is not turned off by the refusal of national Republicans to contribute money to the race. She says small donations — and God’s will — will help her husband win:
“God can increase,” she said, citing the “Feeding of the 5,000” — a Gospel miracle in which Jesus uses five small barley loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude. The campaign will take small contributions, “respect them, and say ‘God, multiply it. Make it pay,’ ” Lulli Akin said. “It brought us through the primary, same way. We’re gonna see it again, because God wants to be honored.”
Lulli Akin echoed her husband’s disdain for Republican leaders:
Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections “by the people and for the people” with “tyranny, a top-down approach.” She added, “Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions—it’s just like 1776 in that way.”
She cited colonists who “rose up and said, ‘Not in my home, you don’t come and rape my daughters and my … wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?”
Todd Akin said his wife’s comparisons to 1776 were “a little more grandiose than the way I would say it” — but he did say that there is a “this tremendous sense of uprising I feel among the people I talk to.”
Sure you could - but when talking about rape that escalates it to another category. Using the word "legitimate" was a gaffe...what followed is still a major problem.
Ohhh the hypocrisy.
When it is about a subject like rape. Why is that so difficult to understand that goes to a whole other level?
Yep, conveniently ignore the facts that (1) The Dhims wanted Akin so bad that they put $2m worth of ads to get him the nomination, and (2) Unlike in other cases, the call for Akin's withdrawal came from all stripes of GOP, from Palin and West to Brown, and anyone in between.
That makes absolutely no sense. One is the candidate on a ballot representing the party - the other is public policy. Moreover, they have no power to remove him from the ballot, he must voluntarily decide to drop out.
Said the woman whose dream to be called 'Mrs. Senator' was crushed.
When did this happen? He won the nomination and was in a great position for victory and everyone was in line to assist him. His comments came later that knocked the wheels off the cart - that is something he did to himself.
You got it right there. No funds.
One is the candidate on a ballot representing the party that chooses public policy.
Moreover, they have no power to remove him from the ballot, he must voluntarily decide to drop out.
The reason that Priebus, Rove, Cornball, and Barbour are and were all upset is that when they told Akin to jump, he didn't jump.
FALSE. Akin has NINE days left to make that move. The only fallout is having to pay for printing ballots.
You are quite right about that, especially when you consider the consequences of his decision to stay in - the election will be won by McCaskill.
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
Say you must obey the GOP
So he was the one who withdrew $15 million dollars from his campaign??? Get real.
Even the Democrats in Missouri were amazed at how suddenly Rove and the GOPe jumped on him to resign. They said we didn't have to do anything or make an issue out of it. The GOPe did our work for us. We just sat back and let them take him out.
It’s official, to many mirrors in their house.
He's a fine fellow and his children are Great Americans. But, he can't win this race, perhaps the only person in the entire state of Missouri who cannot beat McCaskill.
If he had resigned due to pressure from Rove et al, Claire would have been an even more certain winner.
Ah yes, the woman behind the man. No surprises here.
“We don’t want GOP Establishment party bosses deciding who MO Senate candidate should be”
It’s SOP, they’d rather see McKaskill in than a conservative. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
He better hope the rabbit doesn’t die!
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