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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And instead, history repeats...a vile effigy of a woman sits in what was once his seat...thanks to the GOP-e and cowards.
Exactly.
Politics ain't beanbag.
Dems say stupid things all the time, but the Dems never break ranks--even when a President gets serviced by an intern in the Oval Office and suborns perjury.
The story is MacCaskill bragging about her duplicity and her manipulation as an accomplishment, while the GOP-E stands around and wonders WTH happened.
WRONG WRONG WRONG....Akin won the primary with MCCASKILL VOTERS AND MCCASKILL MONEY - and he was not just trashed by the Rovites, he was trashed by Hannity, Rush, Levin, Ingraham, almost all of them, and by many on the right.
Some of you people need to grow up and understand that being against the establishment is critical, but NOT THE ONLY THING THATS IMPORTANT.
Regardless, he was the nominee, establishment or not, and the lack of establishment support guaranteed a RAT win...
"Now If I had fallen for any of that crap, I'd be damned embarrassed."
I didn't "fall for any of that crap..." so sorry if I disappoint, but I don't feel any shame or the least bit embarrassed for calling out the GOP for their blatant hypocrisy.
And yet, here we are, stuck with the uniparty. How's that working out so far?
Todd was leading in the polls...UNTIL ROVE TRASHED HIM ON TV!
Why is it so difficult for so many to see that the GOPe is hopelessly corrupt and will do anything to shoot down true Conservatives?
I will go further and suggest that McConnell preferred having his friend Harry Reid in the Senate, and wouldn't support Sharron Angle's attempt to oust Reid. That would have been too much change for McConnell to accept. He's too cozy with the way things are now.
I do not put it past McConnell to undermine his own party members to preserve his own comfortable position. I think the evidence proves me right.
-PJ
Pubbies are scared of their own shadows and run from the slightest hint of confrontation.
This is why Trump is popular with many right now...he’s not afraid and is highly confrontational.
Make no mistake, I don’t view Trump as a conservative, but a useful tool in pulling back the curtains on the shenanigans that have been going on in DC and across the country for decades now.
It’s been sorely needed, but the GOP-e have become quite comfortable in being patsies and able to maintain the status quo. I suspect they’re all jostling to line up and align themselves behind Jeb or Rubio who are clearly liberals with an R after their names.
Playing the citizenry against itself must be the favorite past time of those buffoons in DC. I guess that witch MacCaskill was the “lesser of two evils”.
Not that simple. The candidates: businessman John Brunner, Rep. Todd Akin and former state treasurer and senator Sarah Steelman all had appeal and weakness. Sarah was the one to like, but I think her handlers hurt her. John was a favorite, but came across as a slick politician in a B comedy movie. Todd was the clear conservative and truly a nice person. He clocked the other two in the debates. Even Rove’s group supported him. The rape comment killed him. Claire is done in Missouri and is hoping stories like this will make her look good in the political afterlife.
Anyone remember when Newt pointed out that being in a wet trench was not ideal for a woman on her period? Patsy Schroeder went ballistic.
no one here is defending or promoting McConnell....so don’t waste my damned time with meaningless and irrelevant analogies.
Stay on topic or go home.
you’re wrong. And he was also trashed by all the conservative talkers...ALL OF THE BIGS....EVERY ONE OF THEM. That’s what trashed him more than Rove...but the main problem was Akin himself. He’d have been an embarrassment as a Senator.
Well, Patsy thought she was being called a wet trench....what with all of her crying on the air....
You were suckered by stuff that I can honestly say has never ever fooled me. I never went thru a liberal phase....never even a moderate phase.
I will post what I choose to post. How you spend your time is your own choice.
-PJ
“He’d have been an embarrassment as a Senator.”
Oh, so we are better off then with McCaskill in the Senate then?
That is EXACTLY the same mindset Rove used when he cut off funds to the Akin election effort.
Ok, so many “conservatives” called for Todd to step out of the race. But, he did not. SO WHAT??? He was STILL the Republican candidate after the deadline, so why in heaven’s name were Rove and GOPe bound and determined to sink his campaign? Why could they not have simply said, “Todd, we would rather you have pulled out in favor of our candidate, but you are the candidate now. How can we help you defeat McCaskill?”
They did not do this. The ONLY reason that can explain this the GOPe’s hatred of conservatives.
And, this hatred is driving the GOPe today in their sabotaging of Ted Cruz.
Poor Akin. If only he had gone golfing that day. Hunting/fishing. Anything but offer Jaco his throat. Roy Blunt and I believe John Hancock (?) and others from MO GOP offered their advise to Akin. But he wouldn't do a sit-down with them. A real shame. Now we are stuck with Ma.
Do you want to know why the support pledge question was hypocritical crap?Where was Mitch McConnell and the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2012 to support Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, or Christine O'Donnell in 2010?
-PJ
^^ Exactly!
Yes, the GOP needs to close primaries.
False choice, and if you’re gonna put on your big boi panties and play in this league, you’re gonna have to give up the false choices.
What Rove did is one thing, but many conservatives urged him to get the hell out of the race - the only difference is that once he was in the race, the conservatives did back him (nausea ensued) - and Rove did not. But don’t think or a minute Akin was tea party or that the estabs were the only ones against him.
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