I disagree. This is a way to leave Todd Atkin in his house seat and get the Missouri Senate seat, and the Senate for the GOP. We need to work together on this.
I believe we would have the same result if we’d just stop hammering the guy.
“This is a way to leave Todd Atkin in his house seat and get the Missouri Senate seat, and the Senate for the GOP. We need to work together on this.”
It seems Akin is beginning o realize the reality of his position..
I don’t think he wants to go down as a pariah within his own party, and go through a political shunning that will isolate him for the rest of his life.
These facts will eventually win out, as will having him have to listen to the MSM/dems drag his name through the mud next week on national TV.
“I disagree. This is a way to leave Todd Atkin in his house seat and get the Missouri Senate seat, and the Senate for the GOP. We need to work together on this.”
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There’s a lot of wisdom in your post. This would not only be a good solution for Akin, it would also preserve the option for Akin’s son to take his place down the road.
If Akin stays in as the party’s Senate candidate this year and loses (which is the destination to which his current path leads), HIS future in politics is permanently destroyed. And, because of the taint, his son’s possible future in politics would be simultaneously destroyed—for all time.
If Akin “drops back one” and wins his current seat, he preserves his political career as well as the potential for his son to have a future in politics himself. Sometimes you have to live to fight another day instead of allowing yourself to be permanently destroyed.