"Steiner's assault will bring it all under control."
Posted on 08/23/2012 7:07:50 AM PDT by nhwingut
Rasmussen will be releasing a poll this morning showing Akin costing us dearly in Missouri: McCaskill 48% Akin 38%.
Time to pack it up and stop screwing us, big guy.
There are people right here on FR that still believe this and think Akin should stay in the race. They don't have any clue how ridiculous they sound or how politically tone deaf they are.
Akin may be a nice guy and a terrific conservative, but he can't win this seat any longer and that makes him a liability. This Senate seat is far more important than Akin's feelings or ego.
Todd Akin on the issues (emphasis on the last)
* Life begins at conception; support Constitutional Amendment.
* Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion.
* Ban abortions for sex selection or race selection.
* Prohibiting forced abortions by UN Population Fund.
* Voted NO on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending.
* Voted NO on additional $825 billion for economic recovery package.
* Voted NO on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler.
* Voted NO on $60B stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, & energy.
* Balanced Budget Amendment with 3/5 vote to override.
* Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.
* Disapprove of increasing the debt limit.
* Voted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman.
* Voted YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance.
* Federal government should be out of the student loan market.
* Voted NO on allowing Courts to decide on “God” in Pledge of Allegiance.
* Voted NO on $40B for green public schools.
* Wean ourselves off our addiction to foreign oil, by drilling.
* Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling.
* Voted YES on barring EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
* Bar greenhouse gases from Clean Air Act rules.
* Signed the No Climate Tax Pledge by AFP.
* Voted NO on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program.
* Rated 100% by the Christian Coalition: a pro-Family-Value voting record.
* Commitment to unbreakable U.S.-Israel bond.
* Get rid of Departments of Energy, Education and Commerce.
* Reversing 17th Amendment gives power back to the states.
* Denounces intrusive government regulations and ObamaCare.
* Voted YES on requiring photo ID for voting in federal elections.
* Second Amendment protects individual right to bear arms.
* Rated A by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights voting record.
* Rated A+ by the ALI, indicating a strongly anti-amnesty stance.
* Declare English as the official language of the US.
* Rated 100% by CEI, indicating a pro-workplace choice voting record.
* Recognize Christianity’s importance to western civilization.
* Threw all the aforementioned into the trash when acting like a pompous, hardheaded, stubborn, self-serving ass while critically jeopardizing America’s final chance of throwing off a socialist usurpation of the medical industry.
The party is orver Rep. Akin.
Also there’s going to be a highly motivated turnout to vote AGAINST Akin.
And of course, those people will think “Hey, as long as I’m here, I’ll vote for Obama, too.”
I am completely on board with Coulter’s call for a write-in campaign. A strong, SANE, pro-lifer who will garner tons of endorsements and cash. That could possibly force Akin’s hand.
My Wife who doesn't pay attention to Politics knows who Todd Akin is and I haven't mentioned a word to her about it.
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Let&’s not panic over this. McCaskill is very unpopular, and she is below 50 percent which is always a very bad sign for an incumbent.
Unfortunately, you can’t vote in the Senate unless you are elected.
“Brunner and Steelman are ineligible, since they lost in the primary (second and third, respectively). They would lose anyway.”
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I’m not familiar with Missouri election law, but typically the “sore loser” provision only apply to the loser getting on the ballot as an opponent of the person who won their party’s primary - and not as a replacement for the winner.
As to your second sentence, I believe that you are totally wrong. McCaskill would be defeated in a landslide if either Steelman or Brunner (Brunner’s would be a lesser landslide) replaced Akin.
Thank you for not voting.
Regards
Barry Hussein
It’s over. Akin is toast. It will likely cost Romney that state too.
"Steiner's assault will bring it all under control."
Unfortunately, all that is balanced out by one quote: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
That’s right up there with Rep. Hank Johnson’s quote about the island of Guam: “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”
Statements like these make voters believe (rightly or wrongly) that the speaker is—to put it bluntly—too stupid to hold elected office. Not misinformed; not mistaken; stupid.
You will never get a majority of voters in a statewide race to vote for someone they feel is too stupid to hold office.
Like it or not, Aiken has placed this brand on himself, and the damage can’t be undone—ever.
Ha! I wonder if all the piling on from the right (supposed fellow conservatives) hurt Akin and helped the left. Do we look stoooopit now too?
Just the Limbaugh name is polarizing and toxic to a lot of independents and moderate votes you’d need.
People need to stop advocating candidates based on their fantasy of imagining how outraged the Left will be when they win, which they won’t.
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