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Akin Fall-Out: Missouri Men Flee from Romney
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Posted on 08/24/2012 11:26:19 AM PDT by tsowellfan

Poll indicates alarming movement in the Obama/Romney horse race resulting from MO's GOP senate nominee Todd Akin's controversial remarks. Clearly, there has been collateral damage...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012election; 2012polls; akin; election2012; elections; mo2012
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To: Parmenio

Wouldn’t it be better if everyone on our side just calmed down and responded to any future questions from the bullying media with ‘Akin made an ignorant comment that he has apologized several times for. I am willing to accept his apology and consider the matter closed.’?


41 posted on 08/24/2012 12:02:08 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: forgotten man
George Soros, Bill Maher, et al are sending checks to Akin as I type.

No one has helped stir up a backlash of support FOR Akin and compelled him stay in the race than ABO, pro-Romney and establishment goons.

It was idiotic on the part of Romney to demonize Akin. It is not surprising social conservatives are rallying around him.

This whole episode exposed the hostility Romney and the GOP-e have toward social conservatives.

Romney has proven once again why he is one of the few candidates liberal an inept enough to lose to Obama.

42 posted on 08/24/2012 12:02:18 PM PDT by Kazan (Support for Romney is disobedience to God!)
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To: tsowellfan

GO AWAY, Akin! Go away before you do any more damage than you already have.


43 posted on 08/24/2012 12:05:11 PM PDT by Inconvenient Truthteller
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To: Elendur
the REAL damage here, is being caused by the GOP-e, showing a lack of any true support for conservative, Christian, values.

You nailed it. And, it is really quite amusing to see the bullies here that piled on Akin pitching a hissy fit when their attacks come back to bit their RINO savior in the behind.

44 posted on 08/24/2012 12:05:32 PM PDT by Kazan (Support for Romney is disobedience to God!)
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To: skeeter

Exactly! This whole episode with Akin made me question my support for Romney, not Akin.


45 posted on 08/24/2012 12:05:52 PM PDT by The Mediterranean Right-Wing
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To: tsowellfan

Now this I don’t believe at all!


46 posted on 08/24/2012 12:06:00 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: tsowellfan

I find that hard to believe.


47 posted on 08/24/2012 12:08:58 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: JennysCool

I think Todd Akin creeps a lot of people out, and his odor is hurting all Republicans on the ticket.

Romney won’t be seen within 100 yards of Todd Akin. He is even banned from entering the Convention Hall in Tampa.


48 posted on 08/24/2012 12:10:40 PM PDT by StevenFlorida
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To: Kazan
There's a smart way to present social conservatism and then there's Akin, your man Akin, a walking talking example of s-t-u-p-i-d... conservatism can withstand an awful lot, but what it cannot withstand is if its proponents slather together a stupid sandwich for the media and liberals to eat up. If he's done this kind of damage, with just one interview, can you imagine what the media will try to do... he will be the go to guy for commentary on conservative issues... don't expect me to want to sit next to stupid and say, "ya, what he said"...
49 posted on 08/24/2012 12:11:46 PM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: tsowellfan
I'm honestly amazed that people are worried about this. Does anyone seriously think that anybody will remember who Akin is a month from now?

This is a weeklong story at the most. The Dems will try and ratchet it up during their convention, but most people will say, "What does this have to do with Romney?"

50 posted on 08/24/2012 12:12:25 PM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions anonymus by the ATF***)
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To: dps.inspect
As a door knob has no concept of its own existence, so too Todd Akin has no concept of what he has done and how it will affect at least the MO election and likely even the national... Yep, let’s stick with Doorknob Akin and kick some ass....... crickets....

The point I was trying to make is this. What is the solution? How is a perceived loss going to be averted? Why would any one with political aspirations subject themselves to a losing situation and be forever tarred with the same brush as Akin?

I would suggest some solutions based upon the situation. That is attempt to come up with a winning solution, rather than running from a difficulty.

What I see is so-called conservatives stepping into line with the D's and sealing their losing fate.

In addition, any potential conservative candidate has to assess to viability of his support. Because with friends like the posts that I have been reading, who needs enemies?

I know that no one likes what I have said, but flame away.

51 posted on 08/24/2012 12:13:05 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: skeeter

“Wouldn’t it be better if everyone on our side just calmed down and responded to any future questions from the bullying media with ‘Akin made an ignorant comment that he has apologized several times for. I am willing to accept his apology and consider the matter closed.’?”

Totally agree!!!


52 posted on 08/24/2012 12:13:45 PM PDT by bronxville
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To: GunRunner
Does anyone seriously think that anybody will remember who Akin is a month from now?

If he's still in the race of course he will. And Claire and the dems will make sure that he's not forgotten. I hear she's putting rape ads together now as we speak.

Why would they want us to forget? It would not be to their benefit.

53 posted on 08/24/2012 12:15:39 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Voting for Obama/Biden is like purposely swallowing two tapeworms)
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To: MNJohnnie

If Akin quits the race, this goes away. Romney isn’t running a race in MO only. He is running a national race...if he doesn’t distance himself from Akin, he will lose Virginia-—where women are much more moderate.

The bottom line is this: Blaming the GOP or Romney for the mess Akin created is like blaming a wife for an abusive husband. Akin needs to fall on his sword, quickly. Draft one of the women candidates (one was endorsed by Sarah Palin) and move on. It’s what needs to happen.


54 posted on 08/24/2012 12:18:05 PM PDT by Tulane
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To: dps.inspect
If he's done this kind of damage, with just one interview, can you imagine what the media will try to do... he will be the go to guy for commentary on conservative issues... don't expect me to want to sit next to stupid and say, "ya, what he said"...

He's been in Congress for many years, doofus. You wait that long, everyone's going to make a mistake at some point. You don't boot someone out for one black mark in a long, good career. Kicking someone out for something that trivial is selfish and callous.

55 posted on 08/24/2012 12:19:08 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: GunRunner
I'm honestly amazed that people are worried about this. Does anyone seriously think that anybody will remember who Akin is a month from now?

Never underestimate the power of the stupid and ignorant, especially when the media is on their side.

56 posted on 08/24/2012 12:23:49 PM PDT by eekitsagreek
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To: JennysCool
Okay, as a result of Akin's comments I could see women fleeing the ranks of Akin supporters, I have a more difficult time understanding why men would be fleeing Romney's ranks because of it.

They're Republican men as shown in polling internals. People like me, Mike Gallagher, Steve Deace, Mike Huckabee, etc., are disgusted with the gutless, spineless RINO wing of the Republican party whose careers are built on stabbing REAL conservatives in the back and who only pay lip service to social conservatism if that. The severity of the attack on Akin COULD NOT OCCUR if the issue he was defending was not based on pro-life, anti-abortion values. If he had made the same statement in relation to a discussion on cutting the capital gains tax, this WOULD NOT be happening to him, period, end of story.

57 posted on 08/24/2012 12:23:49 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: mlizzy

thank you. i am grateful for that link.
not simply the one quote, but the entire article,
is brilliant. ...by far, the best summary i’ve seen,
especially of the “big picture”.
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http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2012/08/making-a-mountain-out-of-a-missouri-molehill.html

Making a Mountain out of a Missouri Molehill
By John F. Di Leo -


58 posted on 08/24/2012 12:25:29 PM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: dps.inspect

LOL. I call them “barn burners” for the 1800s guys who would burn themselves up in a barn to say, “see? We got the rat!”


59 posted on 08/24/2012 12:25:57 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: skeeter

You’re right. I hope this thing blows over, so we can get back to the job of beating Obama and electing a conservative Congress.


60 posted on 08/24/2012 12:26:23 PM PDT by Parmenio
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