Posted on 08/24/2012 6:43:31 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
As the controversy over Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment continues, Mitt Romney’s lead in Missouri has vanished.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters finds President Obama with 47% support to Romney’s 46%. Three percent (3%) favor some other candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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I’m not kidding - I am in Bronx and lower Westchester County N.Y. and there is NOTHING
Maybe a few 2012 stickers here or there in Mt. Vernon or on some crunchy Libs’ prius, but nothing else.
No tv ads, no radio ads, no billboards, ZILCH
Attack ads work.
Yeah I work for Obama. idiots like akin and his trailer trash supporters are the ones who are helping Obama .
oh and I am a physician of 25 years and likely have 15 more years of education that your ilk.
Oh, wise one, thank romney’s gods they have you. Ok, that was mean, but most people don’t have to put others down to lift themselves up.
Easy for us to say, isn't it??? And what if she loses??? as opposed to staying put, relaxing and winning easily.
And tell me - just what is to gain by supporting Akin at this point?
Akin is TOXIC.
Should the GOP have rallied around Foley and Craig?
This guy needs to drop out NOW as he is doing more help to Obama than millions of dollars in ads run on tv’s all across the nation!
Her support is soft and I don’t think Steelman could stand up to McC in a debate.
The real problem is the Reps who join with the mob. We have Bill Kristol and George Will pushing Romney to release more tax returns. And the Dems then use their statements against Romney.
And there has been a virtual ban on any discussion of Obama's birth certificate--no mention of the Arpaio investigation--by Republicans and the vast majority of Conservative talk media. The MSM and the Dems have successfully demonized the "birthers" similar to the way they went after the "deniers" and man-made global warming. The only person allowed to talk about Obama's BC and the birthers is Obama. He uses it as an epithet or a punchline in a joke. No discussion of constitutional issues re presidential eligibilty like there was for McCain.
Hey, great plan!
I wish you success in your plan of FAIL.
And the party contaminated itself with its disgusting cowardice and stinking political cannibalism.
Your weakness serves only to strengthen your enemy.
What a bunch of dishonrable putzes.
*spits on the ground in disgust*
Anybody?
So in other words,
Nobody.
You got nothing but a plan to lose.
You are flailing about in a strong current of water waiting for the inevitable.
You ain’t gonna Glock a damn thing.
If you say so
You could run “John Doe” and it would be better.
Mourdock is a very good candidate and has a strong chance to win. Sure, there is a risk that has to be weighed. If Mourdock were a terrible candidate that would almost certainly lose than it wouldn't have been worth running him instead of RINO Lugar. As is, we have a solid chance to win and wind up a terrific conservative. Akin, on the other hand, is now a terrible candidate with very little chance to win. Worse, he hurts other Republicans up and down ballot in his state. Akin embarrassed the party so badly he manages to hurt Republicans in OTHER states too.
heard the same blather about putting Mike Castle in the Senate rather than have Christine O'Donnell run.
Nominating Christine O' Donnell was a mistake. She was a joke candidate and lost by roughly the margin every political realist knew she would (17 points). Castle is a RINO crapweasel, but this is a case where the trade off wasn't worth it. Nominating her guaranteed a loss. Castle would have been better in that particular case.
There is a calculation to made in each case. Akin won his nomination with the backing of the Huckabee wing of the party (and money from McCaskill and the Democrat Party). No one tried to remove him until he blew up his own campaign. The GOP was going to pour millions in the race on his behalf. Conservative SuperPAC's had ad buys ready. Akin was going to get a ton of support. He said something so woefully stupid that anyone that isn't political tonedeaf realized they had to distance themselves from him. It's long past time for Akin to put his ego aside and get out of the race. Surely there are other equally pro-life candidates that can step in and win this seat.
“You want us to screw a genuine Tea Party conservative who actually won a GOP primary.”
I guess I am in good company when the head of the Tea Party has already publicly asked him to withdraw. His elite Republicans and RINO want him gone narrative does not sell anymore. Conservatives want him gone also. The only national “conservative” figure to publicly quasi support him is Huckabee. Can you name a pro life conservative political public figure or commentator other than one issue evangelicals who has called for him to stay in?
Sorry, John Doe doesn’t qualify. He won nothing, he ran for nothing, and he doesn’t actually exist.
Let me know when you decide to step back in reality, because until such time, you are just excreting forth a bunch of useless nonsense.
And I voted for him. Just I have voted for him to be my congressman. I like his voting record. I agree with his views on the issues.
However, I thought he would be able to navigate his way through this campaign without major mishap. I was wrong. He has severely damaged his own chances, perhaps irreparably. Plus, he is hurting the cause outside of his own race.
I work in the Bronx and live in Queens. You are correct. I hardly see any bumper stickers or signs anywhere. Interestingly, of what I do see, I would say it is about even. The polls say NY +25 for Obama.
I'd say, "Go for it!"
As I told don, it's easy for us to say isn't it??? It's not our future on the line.
I was astounded to find that a couple folks that I know to be intelligent, and who I formerly very much respected, actually belive that Akin's "science" is good. They offer as their sources:
1. An appeal to "common sense", as in "it's just common sense that if a woman is raped she is less likely to conceive." Really? I'd laugh, but they aren't kidding. The "no evidence is no evidence" standard kicks this one out, without bothering to get into the logical fallacy aspect.
2. A small early-70s statistical study of two urban hospitals with internal references citing Nazi fertilization experiments on Jewish victims. Words fail on that one. Even in the unlikely event that it might have some merit, do you REALLY want to go there?
3. A ChiCom mouse study. Obviously totally pertinent to the argument. Not. And again, ChiComs...mice...do you REALLY want to go there? This entire brouhaha is over perception. This sort of loose thinking reinforces the sterotype of conservatives that our enemies revel in, that we are irrational, medieval-minded zealots. It's d*mn discouraging.
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