For me, politically speaking, since my goal is taking the Senate and the Presidency as I'm sure yours is as well,Aiken fell into a trap that several others have also fallen into.
It's the Trent Lott/George Allen macaaca comment crap all over again.
Our side is so worried about what the DBM will say about us,what lie they will spin next, that we over apologize when we do make mistakes.Big mistake
And,,,since there is a well known double standard of dems getting away with anything from "better put some ice on that" to "if I don't solve this problem in three years its going to be a one term proposition". Meanwhile we pay for every mistake/misspeak in near death strikes from both the left and our own.It's imperative that when we do miscue we recover immediately or suffer the consequences.
If Akin had made a simple apology and then got back to the issues of the day such as McCaskill's vote for obamcare, no budget for three years, etc., etc. things might have turned out different. But, instead he's apologized over and over and beginning to look as weak as Allen or Lott.
Once you look weak, once there is blood in the water,its all over politically.The rats use the DBM as their print/tv slaves while we have to win the old fashioned way by telling the truth.
Yes its great for us to stand by our man and do the right thing pretending we can overcome media bias whether we can or not but its far better to win elections.Would I rather be pure and stand by someone who made a simple mistake--of course.With the stakes this high is it the right thing to do this time.Probably not.
We win by being strong making few mistakes and when we do screw up never ever letting the left get the upper hand. IMHO, its too late for Akin.I could be wrong.
Your judgment is always as good as it gets,but at least you know where I stand.
If Akin has no chance I would like him to step aside and give somebody else a chance.
But if this is how we’re going to let the dims play the grievances game, we’re going to lose no matter who is the candidate. The loss in the polls is probably different factions trying to leverage for a particular candidate other than Akin. Maybe they’ll succeed; maybe not. But when we’ve got the final candidate we’re going to have to play for keeps, and that’s going to be hard to do if we don’t learn to recognize the political agitators and their methods.
Women have always been the squishy voters. They are always targeted for these kinds of crappy games. The people who are wheedling about Akin warring against women are the same people who side with the Arab Spring, in which Christian women are kidnapped, raped, forced into marriage, and forcibly converted to Islam, where husbands can rape their wives without penalty their whole life long and can have them stoned to death for adultery without any evidence.
At some point we have to get real. Women have to stop being suckers and see both the trees and the forest. I say that as a woman. There is compassion, and then there is just stupidity. For a lot of women it’s harder to see the difference because we have such a tendency to compassion. But I would be crazy to be so “compassionate” to raped women that I deliver them from the likes of Akin in order to hand them over to Huma Abedin’s father and mother.