Posted on 08/23/2012 8:44:23 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
What a difference one TV interview can make. Embattled Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill has now jumped to a 10-point lead over her Republican challenger, Congressman Todd Akin, in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race. Most Missouri Republicans want Akin to quit the race while most Missouri Democrats want him to stay.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Show Me State finds McCaskill earning 48% support to Akin’s 38%. Nine percent (9%) like some other candidate in the race, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
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Mega-dittoes.
Akin’s comment went beyond the “legitimate” gaffe into indefensible ignorance when he invoked magic biology. No one who is interested in winning the election is going to touch it. It’s a tar baby and anyone who defends it is going to get stuck with it just as sure as if he’d said it himself. It is unrealistic to expect anyone to commit political suicide on Akin’s behalf.
You mean the GOP-E Team, the Romney Team, the Carl Rove team, the pro-abortion anti-conservative team that is calling for an Olympia Snowe clone to replace him?
That Team?
But, remember, how people on this board excoriated Rick Santorum when he said in 2011 or 2012 that we sometimes “have to take one for the team.”
The GOP-e loves this opportunity to run a RINO.
They hate it when a Tea Party candidate gets in a race.
Or conservatives. Look what they did with B1 Bob, they let a leftist faux latino get elected with obvious giant voter fraud rather than Dornan
I think Rove furiously pens a dozen or so
censored white boards in his basement at Hannity’s house...then erases them...LOL (therapy)
So what you are saying is that Political Correctness trumps the Truth.
That is a reality. But is anyone willing to stand up and speak the truth? Or are we all going to cower in the corner and hope that the democrats play nice with Akin's replacement?
I'm all in for Akin. He committed the cardinal sin of not being politically correct. For that sin most of the Freepers here are ready to hang him.
Sad. The fact of the matter is that Akin is one of the most solid conservatives in Washington. But he gets no pass from Freepers who would prefer another Olympia Snowe to Akin. I don't recognize this forum anymore. We all stood up for Sarah Palin when she blew her interview with Katie Couric but Sarah Palin didn't bother to wait even 24 hours before throwing Akin under the bus.
It appears that too many conservatives are cowards. That is why Romney is the nominee. We were so afraid that Newt or Bachmann or Santorum would lose to Obama that we threw in with the RINO with the colored hair and the used car salesman smile.
We will get the government we deserve come November. It is not going to be pretty.
We will not be victorious because we don't seek victory, we seek appeasement.
We will get an unprincipled government because we don't honor principles.
Those are the same FReepers who sadly do not live in the real world, where words mean things, actions have consequences and voters do not select candidates purely on principle but have to be carefully wooed and won. Sometimes in the real world the biggest hero is the person who is willing to throw himself on the grenade to save his friends.
Akin is no hero.
Also, there are stats supporting a lower incidence of pregnancy among victims of violent rape. IOW, babies are more likely in consenting relationships. That's just common sense.
In short, Akin would have been defendable, but his friends through him under the bus. And their efforts backfired, fo all they did was buy themselves trouble.
“He committed the cardinal sin of not being politically correct.”
No, that’s wrong. He actually committed two sins...
One is the incredible inability to sniff out a hostile question and respond to it accordingly. That alone makes his candidacy incredibly suspect.
The last is that he has about a 7th graders knowledge of anatomy and sexual reproduction.
I vehemently disagree. Candidly, I did not focus on the "legitimate" comment because, as you say, that poor choice of word can perhaps be explained. I think that the more lasting legacy is his comment that women's bodies can somehow tell the difference between violent and statutory rape and simply "turn off" their reproductive organs.
He sounds like a nut job to a lot of people and falls right into the left's template for us. A better response would be that although violent rape is certainly tragic, murder compounds the tragedy. People could have disagreed with him, but at least he doesn't sound like a lunatic.
Akin has now managed to turn off a lot of women who can't imagine having to endure a pregnancy as a result of a rape. Way to go Todd.
As I noted on another thread:
The statistics show that there is a statistically significant decrease in the chance of pregnancies following forcible rape. There is no way to scientifically determine the exact explanation. The fact is that events like this can cause significant hormonal imbalances in women as with any serious traumatic event. This could be the explanation. Another explanation could be prayer. The fact is that there is statistical evidence to show an anomaly. Akin's theory to explain that anomaly is as valid as anyone else's.
I would be willing to bet that nearly every obstetrician and gynecologist would advise their patients to avoid stressful situations and traumatic events while pregnant because it has been shown to cause miscarriages.
Additionally I would bet that most physicians who are counseling their female patients who want to get pregnant would strongly advise their patients to avoid the same type of stressful situations and traumatic events during those periods in which they are trying to conceive.
If, in fact, traumatic events can trigger miscarriages or otherwise interfere with the ability to conceive, which has been the standard medical opinion since the dawn of modern medicine, then Akin’s opinion on the issue is more valid than all of these uneducated Freepers who insist their is absolutely no causal correlation.
The statistics speak for themselves. The explanation is the elusive issue. Akin spoke in politically incorrect terms. He spoke it in an awkward way. But if there were no truth to his statement, then physicians would not be advising pregnant women to avoid traumatic and stressful events and would not be advising couples who are trying to conceive to avoid stressful lifestyles and events. Stress causes changes to everyone's bodies. To deny that fact is to deny the whole of biological science.
I, for one (and I appear to be one of only a handful of Freepers) am not willing to throw a man who has been fighting for decades for conservative causes and principles under the bus because he can't adequately explain a statistical anomaly that nobody else can. There have been scientific postulations as to the cause, but there is simply no scientific method to prove or disprove it.
Akins is a dedicated lifelong conservative. He has stood against the Washington establishment for decades as a beacon of truth and conservative principles. We as conservatives owe it to him to stand by him as he has stood by us.
Yep -- She was still angry in that interview over her candidate's loss in the Missouri Senatorial primary -- and it showed.
How about... the America team. His defeat forecloses any chance of repealing Obamacare.
This is simply the result of the blitzkrieg of democratic lies. As the election draws closer, I can see him easily pulling ahead as people realize the disingenuousness of the Demosocialist machine.
Akin needs to drop out and too many voters treat voting like a popularity contest.
Extremely frustrating situation.
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