Posted on 08/22/2012 11:32:39 AM PDT by Rufus2007
Republican Rep. Todd Akin decision to continue his campaign against Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill wasn’t well received by many on the right, and perhaps one of the most exasperated reactions came from conservative talker Mark Levin.
Levin, the author of “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,” wanted his listeners to realize that there was more at stake to the race than just Todd Akin.
“Now I want you to step back, which is hard to do with these emotional things — step back,” Levin said. “In any other walk of life, if you can excuse something that is really stupid and insensitive you’ll go ahead and do it. But if the future of your business is at stake, if the future of a military operation is at stake, if the future of your country is potentially at stake — you don’t take the risk. You just don’t because the country is too important. Your children and grandchildren are too important.”
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To be honest, I owe Levin an apology. He took the opposite position of what I thought he had. I do agree with him, and I’m sorry I stated otherwise in error.
Iopscusa, I also agree with Malkin, Hannity, and Romney on this.
Not trying to spurn your note of agreement, but I did want to correct my error.
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In Alabama the State Democratic Committee is removing the Dem primary winner (Henry Lyon) in the race for Ala. Supreme Court Chief Justice and replacing him with Robert Vance to run against Republican primary winner and former Chief Justice Roy Moore. So it DOES happen on both sides.
I know of no way to remove Akin. Could you site a specific law? Only Akin can withdraw his name. Even then he must petition the court. And SOS Carnahan can contest the decision of the court. There may be a major food fight coming. She does not play well with Republicans...
Really? You can't see by now that the guy is politically dead? Are you this politically tone deaf?
You can't go on TV and spout some ridiculous, half baked idea about women not getting pregnant via rape because their bodies magically shut down, and expect to remain a viable candidate in a statewide general election. And don't post me a bunch of garbage about how his statements are sorta, almost, kinda true. They are absolutely ridiculous. For a large scale example of just how ridiculous, one doesn't need to look any further than the conquering Red Army's rape of masses of German women and the thousands upon thousands of pregnancies that resulted from it. Akin himself has disowned his dopey theory, attributing it to some article he read in the past.
He is conservative through and through.
So is my neighbor. He's a great guy and terrific conservative. Unfortunately, much as we all like him, he can't win a statewide election for Senate. So we can go on liking him forever, just not as a candidate for Senate.
Missourians will decide, not the drive-by media.
You really don't know what is going on here do you? I mean, you haven't got a clue. Akin's statements were so utterly stupid that virtually every conservative will have to walk away from him. That means no money from the party or conservative PAC's. This means he can't compete. And yes, the drive-by media does, unfortunately, shape elections. There is a double standard. It's not fair, but it is what it is and until we've taken over the mainstream media we are playing under the left's rules. A conservative can't say the stuff Akin did and survive a competitive election. Maybe he could hold his own House district, but he isn't going to win statewide in Missouri now.
Yep, and that includes a surprising number of folks on FR. They blithely accepted Yoder's drunken, naked swim in Israel, even laughed about it. But this? Burn the guy at the stake.
By the way, just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that Yoder be ousted.
IF you are going to “put the hammer down”, at least use the hammer of TRUTH!
Okay. Fine. Now I know something irrelevant about AL. Tell me about Missouri.
Rebuttal not needed. See #41.
Steve Deace and Mike Gallagher have it right. This controversy was blown way out of propotion by the GOP establishment because they DO NOT RESPECT pro-life conservatives. Anyone else would have gotten their apology accepted and gotten a second chance.
The Democrats can try to say that one Republican in one state represents the whole party, but that’s crazy. So why in the world should we accept their premise by acting like the whole party will be damaged by Akin? Did conservatives say the whole party would be damaged by Scott Brown? No, we took the best Senator from Massachusetts we could get based on the cards dealt to us. It’s time for the anti-Christian GOP RINOs to show the same respect for OUR wing of the party.
Of course they are blowing it out of proportion. When has any politician been asked to step down over a simple verbal gaffe? Everybody makes mistakes. He apologized. It was an easily understandable mistake. Many articles on pro-life web sites state almost word-for-word what he said about rape and pregnancy, and he specifically stated he wasn’t sure if that was true or not when he said it, just that he had read it.
OK, will bring your crystal ball out before the next primaries so you can tell us which nominees are the surefire election losers. George Allen was predicted to be the next presidential nominee at one point in the mid-2000s.
Did your crystal ball show you Mitt Romney was a surefire loser during this year’s presidential primary?
Being intentionally obtuse is covered in my copy of Amendment 1.1.2.a of the U. S. Constitution. ;^) [ subsection names changed to protect the innocent ]
I do think there are some subjects, in fact most subjects, that you can evidence being clueless about, and still avoid crashing and burning. When it comes to the subject of rape, the stakes go way way up. His comments were amazingly dumb. It fed right into the intention of the Democrats to spend one whole night at their convention on women’s rights, and the idea that the Democrats are so much more in tune with their needs.
What this guy demonstrated, was political malfeasance.
I’ll grant you that the GOPe hasn’t got a leg to stand on here, considering their love affair with Romney, but that doesn’t mean they are wrong about Akin. It means they were and are wrong about Romney.
I honestly do agree with you that we have a very sad state of affairs as it relates to the GOPe, and what is right or wrong.
The people who pegged Romney all along, have plenty of room to talk about Akin. Even if they got Romney wrong, that doesn’t mean they are misguided to address something else that is wrong, if they are addressing it with truth.
Abortion doesn't even bring us prosperity. A higher birth rate helps provide welfare to the elderly and increases economic growth across the board. It's actually probably too late for us to ever turn the economy around now because our birth rate is too low and getting worse. The Republicans aren't going to be able to create any better economic growth than Obama. That's why this election must NOT be about the economy. It has to be about restoring Judeo-Christian values to the nation. Without those values inspiring all of our actions, the economy is guaranteed to fall into the hole and stay there. And that's because of abortion and lots of other morality-based reasons.
This bonehead opened his own mouth and inserted both feet.
So should we overlook "I like being able to fire people" and "I'm not concerned about the very poor?" Because by your standard, what a person meant doesn't matter, only how it sounded and how the Democrats can spin it.
And, yes, voting record is the only thing that matters. What a person says on a talk show doesn’t affect my life. How they vote does.
Which is why I'm calling on the Republican leaders to support him and give him the expected money. Oh, and, the MSM pounds all Republicans 24-7.
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