“blaming mourdock and akin after you handily took those states is just ignorant....”
Think so? Go to any other state in America. Talk to 20 random women under 35 in a starbucks. Ask who they voted for and why.
Their message was damaging and spread far beyond safe presidential GOP territory into the far more narrow swing states.
These two asshats ran their mouths because they were in safe GOP territory and thought they had it in the bag. They never gave a thought to closer states and how their nutty talk might harm the larger effort.
why- you think if they hadn’t made those statements people in starbucks wouldn’t have voted for obama and would have voted for Romney??
i’m not defending them and that’s the problem with some of the Tea Party candidates; its great to get the RINO’s out but when you replace garbage with garbage (odonnell, angle, akin) this is the end result....
Their message was damaging and spread far beyond safe presidential GOP territory into the far more narrow swing states.
These two asshats ran their mouths because they were in safe GOP territory and thought they had it in the bag. They never gave a thought to closer states and how their nutty talk might harm the larger effort.
You are 100% correct. A coworker just today who I've always regarded as relatively nonpolitical mentioned Akin just this afternoon as the kind of person the Republican party needs to dump before people he knew would consider voting for the party.
There are just too many conservatives living in an echo chamber and don't realize the damage these idiots do to us. You could see that echo chamber effect right here on FR where it seems Obama's victory came as a complete shock - despite the fact that most seasoned election analysts like Cook, Sabato, Rothenberg, etc, along with poll predicted just this result.