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.
And yet Barack Obama and his party mates can crank out garbage after garbage and they gather millions of malcontents to their cause in spite of it.
Farg em.
“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.”
I just wonder how many people complaining about Akin would have found another reason to vote for Team Kenya. This shouldn’t have been close. Obama has been a historic disaster.
The real problem is these low information voters are the swing in the entire electorate. The Greatest Generation is gone and we are left with the American Idol gen. uh oh...