Posted on 10/22/2012 4:03:23 AM PDT by markomalley
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin said Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill has fetched expansive government policies “like a dog” during her tenure in Washington.
Akin made the comparison during a fundraising event in Springfield, where he featured support from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of the few national Republicans still backing Akin after much of the party establishment distanced themselves from his candidacy following the controversy earlier in the race surrounding his comments about “legitimate rape.”
“She goes to Washington, D.C., it’s a little bit like one of those dogs, ‘fetch,’” he said. “She goes to Washington, D.C., and get all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri.”
Akin continued, “It seems to me that she’s got it just backwards. What we should be doing is taking the common sense we see in Missouri and taking that to Washington, D.C., and blessing them with more solutions instead of more problems.”
The remark was another in a series of quotes that could place more distance between Akin and female voters. Earlier this year, Akin questioned whether McCaskill was “lady-like” during their first debate, and during their second debate was criticized by McCaskill for his opposition to “equal pay” laws for women.
Akin, speaking to the audience Saturday evening, said the focus on issues other than the economy is a “distraction” by the McCaskill campaign from her tenure in office, and encouraged voter to compare her six years as a senator with his 12 years in the House.
So what’s your point...
That is offensive for all dogs and Missourians love their dogs.
Foot in mouth disease strikes again.
I would rather have a Senator with foot in mouth disease than one like McCaskill with her hand in my pocket disease.
what’s your point about living in a different state? haa. Just kidding.
How about convincing any other folks you know that DO live in MO to get on baord. She is ONE evil, crooked politician and we need to dump those like yesterday’s paper.
OK..let’s turn this around. Would bet you Claire McCaskill voted for Bill Clinton..the dems icon..and we know his record on women. Talk about abuse and would also bet you that McCaskill thought highly of Ted Kennedy. I am fed up with her playing the gender card.
Now, we don’t know all the info as to whether or not her current husband did beat his ex wife. There is a police report online..via Red State. But we do know McCaskill said she got her values from her husband.
Fact is..McCain is still a senator and the NRSC and gop E backed him.
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