Posted on 08/12/2015 6:04:24 AM PDT by C19fan
It was August 7, 2012, and I was standing in my hotel room in Kansas City about to shotgun a beer for the first time in my life. I had just made the biggest gamble of my political career—a $1.7 million gamble—and it had paid off. Running for reelection to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Missouri, I had successfully manipulated the Republican primary so that in the general election I would face the candidate I was most likely to beat. And this is how I had promised my daughters we would celebrate. But first let me go back to the beginning.
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Much of my support for Akin was a simply reactionary resistance to the establishment.
You should write a book about it.
This was a foreshadowing of things to come under a McConnell majority leadership.
-PJ
LOL!
No, Trump has some supporters who were Akin supporters. You can look up the logical consequence of your false generalization if you get over your ‘snark’.
He demonstrably has significant support of Bush, Hillary, Rubio etc. moderate voters.
“Trump has large support from liberal and moderate voters.”
Well, he polls around 50% negatives, which his supporters obviously don’t like to mention.
100% of it was...there's nothing about Akin that deserved support on his own merit. And by the way, Rush and Levin and Hannity and other very non estabs were calling on him to go away too.
100% of it was...there's nothing about Akin that deserved support on his own merit. And by the way, Rush and Levin and Hannity and other very non estabs were calling on him to go away too.
no worries. We have plenty of Mitch McConnel defenders on here who are having to eat the same humble pie. Many of us tried to warn them he had kneepads on but they wouldn't listen and now we're all paying the price.
Look dude, I can explain it to you...but sadly I cannot understand it for you.
I said simply that many of the Trump supporters of today were the Akin supporters back then. AND THATS TRUE.
It’s also true that Trump has other supporters as well - but THAT DOES NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH IN THE FIRST STATEMENT ONE DAMNED IOTA.
If you can’t follow that logic, then you have some serious IQ brain processing issues you need to deal with.
Steelman was the only candidate who could have brought down Mother McCaskill.
no worries. We have plenty of Mitch McConnel defenders on here who are having to eat the same humble pie. Many of us tried to warn them he had kneepads on but they wouldn't listen and now we're all paying the price.
McCaskill viewed Akin as the weakest opponent for her, and in that she was probably right. But it was far from a slam-dunk and the race was still winnable by the GOP...until Akin had his nuclear mealtdown on TV. So Claire shouldn’t take much of the credit. Todd went out of his way to help.
Get’s about 1/3 support from liberal and moderates now.
Yes, he has high negatives. Doubt he can turn that around before the primaries.
Which would be fine with me.
But meanwhile he’s a useful tool for us. As Akin was for Claire.
“Voters would have moved on from the rape comment if McConnell had made a stand and supported Akin.”
Wishful thinking doesn’t win elections.
He never should have appeared on Jaco's radio show. Roy Blunt and other Republican "advisors" offered to coach him prior to his making the circuit. He refused. Stubborn, from beginning to end.
If it’ll break you out of your snark fit, I certainly can’t dispute that your comment would apply to an insignificant number of people.
it’s not insignificant. It’s also the same mindset, even among some of the people who were not Akin supporters...the mindset being a hatred of the establishment that supersedes a love of the TRUth. Thus, it’s a very valid point, both on literal people and on the guiding principles of both sets of voters.
That’s where you’re wrong. Not snark. Just fact.
Much of the GOP is salvageable but the leadership and key parts of the DC cartel need to go.
And stubborn beyond all reason.
'Ol white guys should not, as a general rule, discuss women's reproductive regions...
The point is that the left takes everything and magnifies it beyond its proportions knowing that Republicans are weak and inclined to run away from a fight, any fight. The left especially uses rape to entrap Republicans into making comments that they can twist and magnify to their advantage.
McConnell and Akin could have toughed it out, and likely won. McConnell chose to run away and abandon Akin and the Senate seat. He did the same thing months later when Richard Mourdock fell into the same trap.
McConnell is still running away today.
-PJ
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