“This should have never been an issue in the general election.”
You are wrong and the cowardly GOPe is wrong. This should ALWAYS be an issue in any election....except for dogcatcher.
It is TIME for the GOP to either support moral/social issues important to the SOCON base, or rightfully alienate moral/social conservatives forever. This “back of the bus” nonsense is REALLY getting old.
You have to WIN to effect change.
Send Cornyn and McConnell to the back.
I got news for you, kid.
You myopic so-cons are far from being the base of the party.
Why should the nation risk the certainty of financial disaster just because you people can’t see past the end of your sanctimonious schnozzes?
It takes the SCOTUS about 80-90 years to correct a prior bad decision. Dred Scott v. US and Plessy v. Ferguson for sterling examples, weren’t fixed for decades.
Roe, too will eventually be fixed, but not in the next several terms of several presidents.
So get off the high horse.
“It is TIME for the GOP to either support moral/social issues important to the SOCON base, or rightfully alienate moral/social conservatives forever”
The GOP is not interested in the conservative base. They are only interested in pushing the party further to the left.
“It is TIME for the GOP to either support moral/social issues important to the SOCON base, or rightfully alienate moral/social conservatives forever. This “back of the bus” nonsense is REALLY getting old.”
Your point is well-taken.
If Akin simply refuses to be browbeaten into withdrawing, the Republicans have two choices:
1. Withdraw all support (which they seem to be doing, at the moment) and try to distance themselves from him. The problem is that he -IS- “the Republican candidate” and they can’t remove him nor distance themselves from that reality, no matter how much they try. If he goes down, considerable collateral damage may result. Retaking the Senate is a particularly thorny issue that has national implications for the next several years. The Republican party can shoot to kill Mr. Akin, but that shot is gonna ricochet right back at them.
2. Go hell-for-leather all-out in support of Akin, with the goal of beating McCaskill and winning the seat. She is weak enough that with proper politcal firepower and the willingness to fight for the sole sake of winning, that she can be defeated. Throw everything they have against her — do unto the ‘rats as they will try to do unto the Pubs. Fight clean, fight loud, fight long, even fight dirty — damn the torpedos, full-speed-ahead.
The Pubbies can turn this around, if they’re slick and sly.
But they probably won’t.
In this contest, the end will justify the means.
And I do mean that.
There is simply too much at stake here to be so naive as to believe otherwise.