RE: Well their is another option. Akin getting out and letting conservatives vote for a candidate and not holding their noses.
Let’s say Akin stays. What then? Are conservatives who were turned off by what he says then going to NOT vote for him in November and let McCaskill ( who is pro-choice and earned 100-percent score in NARAL ) just cruise?
I am not from Missouri, but I sure as hell will STILL vote for Akin, warts and all, if I lived there, over the alternative.
IN THE OVERALL SCHEME OF THINGS, FOR CONSERVATIVES, THAT GAFFE SHOULD BE NO BIG DEAL.
Akin is pro-life, McCaskill is pro-choice. That should settle it for the conservative Missourian.
Many or most conservatives may well come back and vote for him. Some will stay home. But he has lost independents. Political Reality 101 -— you do not win without attracting independents. And money.
My opinion he gave the seat to McCaskill.
Akin could have been more apologetic and humble, but what does he do, he flys off to Florida for a few days, to hear an echo chamber to stay in.
This a perfect storm for what conservatives should not do.
Akin has proven that this race is all about him, and he only.
The more he fixates about himself, the more bad taste he leaves with voters, and the voters again have the choice of two arrogant people running for Senate, and the principle of voting for the devil you do know starts to apply.