The chips will fall as expected, Akin loses, and we all remember what an idiot he was. Yippee. That make you happy? Do you feel you win something from following this debacle to it's conclusion? Nothing changes. Candidates that make campaign ending ridiculous statements are still going to be asked to step aside. What is the value of a loss in this state compared with replacing McCaskill with a Senator that will vote to overturn Obamacare? This just proves that Akin and his hardcore supporters are stubborn boneheads who put ego over principle.
This is the reason I strongly believe the Rep Establishment saw this as a way to get someone to replace Akin who was more acceptable ideologically.
Oh BS. Quit with the persecution complex. Akin was obviously the weakest of the candidates. That is why McCaskill and the Democrats put 1-2 million in the GOP primary to help him win the nomination. The left didn't do this just to burn off some extra money. They made a cold, hard calculation that Akin was most likely to implode - and sure as heck enough, he did. No one tried to force Akin out when he originally won the primary. Money was slated to pour in from the party and SuperPAC's to help him win. And Akin was on track to win too, until he stated that women's bodies magically seal up and prevent pregnancy via rape. And please don't try to defend this statement when even Akin doesn't anymore.
O'Donnell finished off the political career of a RINO--an accomplishment all by itself. She also helped shake up the Rep establishment in Delaware.
Good grief, for love of all that is good in this world, please stop defending this woman. O'Donnell is a complete flake. It's like some of you people are looking at her and purposefully ignoring all the bizarre behavior. This is the woman that whined that the "establishment" wouldn't support her after having 4 years previously lost a GOP primary race and then abandoned the party and ran a complete failure of a 3rd party write-in bid. And on top of all the shady stuff that surrounds her, there are now allegation that she stole ideas from a fellow conservative and tried marketing it to Al Gore's current TV.
I am active in the Tea Party movement and GOP politics. I understand political reality, especially living in Northern VA, which has been transformed into a Dem bastion over the past 30 years I have been living here.
Ah, almost neighbors then! I am in Fairfax County and agree with your points about VA, demographics, etc.
It has nothing to do with making me happy. Akin won the primary and deserves to see this thru to the end. You don't start removing candidates on the campaign trail because they make a verbal gaffe. You plow the field with the oxen God gave you. And this debacle was made far worse by the GOP Establishment. The question is whether the GOP will provide any support to Akin or will abandon him completely.
Ego over principle? Is that really the choice? It really is the other way around--principle over coercion. The supporters who gave Akin the win deserve to vote for him as senator. I would rather have someone who emerged from the primary, which 700,000 people participated in than have a small cabal of GOP insiders decide who the candidate should be.
Oh BS. Quit with the persecution complex. Akin was obviously the weakest of the candidates. That is why McCaskill and the Democrats put 1-2 million in the GOP primary to help him win the nomination
Good grief, for love of all that is good in this world, please stop defending this woman. O'Donnell is a complete flake. It's like some of you people are looking at her and purposefully ignoring all the bizarre behavior.
I wish you would get better informed. I am not defending her. She ran twice for senator. SHE WON THE GOP PRIMARY. THERE WAS A VOTE BY THE PEOPLE. There are all kinds of flakes in Congress, many of them Dems. It is not an automatic disqualifier. She would certainly be better on the issues than Coons. And who is a bigger Delaware flake than Biden the Plagiarizer and Gaffe-Machine?
I am glad that she defeated, with major Tea Party support, Castle who refused to support her after she won. Lugar won't campaign for Mourdock. The sooner we purge the pseudo-Reps the better.
This is the woman that whined that the "establishment" wouldn't support her after having 4 years previously lost a GOP primary race and then abandoned the party and ran a complete failure of a 3rd party write-in bid.
You left out that she was the Rep nominee for the Senate in 2008 and lost to Biden 65% to 35%. McCain only received 37% of the vote against Obama in Delaware. She lost to Coons 57% to 40%. Delaware is a very blue state.
Ah, almost neighbors then! I am in Fairfax County and agree with your points about VA, demographics, etc.
Are you a member of the FCRC? I am.