Someone like Ms Steelman would vote just as conservative and she won’t be making utterly stupid statements like Akin. I would prefer a woman candidate to replace Akin which neutralizes the war on women meme from the left.
I am saying that replacing the candidate at this point throws the election, especially if the existing candidate doesn’t go quickly. The Republicans know that but what it is all about now is punishing Akin for “embarrassing” the Republican who desperately want to please Democrats. The Republicans would rather have a Democrat in the seat than Akin so that the Democrats won’t make faces at them. It is not about getting a majority in the Senate. Republicans don’t know how to hold their hands in a majority and would emotionally rather not experience it (ref. Boehner). It is probably too late now to replace McCaskill. The Republicans and all those commentators have righteously blown that opportunity now. It makes more sense to keep Akin rather than hand a different promising politician a sure loss. This behaviour on the part of the Republicans shows that Republicans, like the Leftists and Liberals they supposedly oppose. are NOT rational but rather emotional and as such it does not matter who wins or loses in November. They will follow sane policies only so far then, like Bush, and Bush before him, they will want to apparently help this group and that group in order to garner praise from the MSM and the perceived significant people in the world like Soros and Clinton which is itself a lost cause.