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I think the only double standard here is the GOP-e calling for Akin to step down after a single verbal misstep, while at the same time closing their eyes to Romney's entire career filled with assaults on conservatism. Do you know anything about Todd Akin? Take a look at his voting record (click).

Life begins at conception
NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research
Prohibit federal funding for abortion
NO on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus
NO on additional $825 billion for economic recovery
NO on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler
Balanced Budget Amendment advocate
Disapprove of increasing the debt limit
defining marriage as one-man-one-woman
YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance
Rated 90% by the US COC, indicating a pro-business voting record
YES on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism
Federal government should be out of the student loan market
YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases
Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge
Rated A by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record

I only got half way through the list. There's just too much good stuff to copy and paste here. This guy is one of us. Big Time. If this is an example of what the GOP-e wants to do away with in Congress, then we conservatives are on their enemies list. Looking at his voting history, I'll happily excuse a case of foot-in-mouth to get him in the Senate and holding that liberal Romney's "feet to the fire" as the Romney advocates here have "promised" to do.

I'll happily excuse a case of foot-in-mouth to get him in the Senate

I sincerely hope a majority of voters in Missouri feel the same way. If not, we've lost a critical Senate seat. Since he needed democrat crossover voters and democrat cash to get to this point, and since his poll numbers are sinking and his party financing is gone, it will be an uphill battle. His original comment was bad enough, but his subsequent behavior was even more off-the-wall. Pristine conservative voting record aside, he comes off as a really strange bird.

Longbow's analogy is apt. "Keeping Akin around for this Senate race would be like continuing to start a QB with a broken leg."

Oh, okay, then if someone who shares most of our views says something terrible, we’re supposed to overlook it. Got it.

Please spare me the GOPe conspiracy talk.

This bonehead opened his own mouth and inserted both feet.