You are getting Claire McCaskill re-elected to the Senate.
You and everyone here that is doing her work attacking our candidate.
Well, SOMEBODY is going to get Claire McCaskill re-elected.
Because so long as the epicenter is Todd Akin, there is no way he is going to get elected. His candidacy is doomed, and he will not bow out gracefully.
When Robert Toricelli of of New Jersey was forced out, a tired old senile fossil, Frank Lautenberg, was rushed in to take his place on the ballot, so the action is not unprecendented. As I recall, Toricelli was not particularly graceful about his exit, either.
But exit he did.
Spiro Agnew got marched out of the Vice Presidency in the dark of night. There was a replacement for him, waiting. So this is not a new strategy for a political party to assume.