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You mean like that savvy politician Karl Rove and his incendiary remark at a fundraiser breakfast at the Republican National Convention, where he was quoted as saying:

“We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts.”

Well said.

“Mysteriously murdered”?!?! Maybe the Republican party should demand that Karl Rove step down because of his provocative remark. He’s a highly respected political pundit and should know better.

I noticed that none of the radio talk show hosts discussed this today and clumsily kept the situation purposely off of the Akin situation today, probably hoping for the Rove joke to be old news by Monday.

They may be hoping against hope because this remark was much worse than anything Akin said and it is the great standard bearer of political astuteness, Karl Rove himself, who made it.

People who have had visits from the FBI have said far less.

Yeah like that too, in some ways.

The Rove remark contained a thinly-veiled threat -- Akin's didn't. That puts Rove into a whole other category of stupid. Score one for Akin.

My point was that Akin was seriously "off-message". The GOP has a winning issue -- the economy. Not the only issue; but the winning issue. The Dems are desperate to distract attention from the economy. They've fabricated the "War on Women" out of whole cloth; because that's a good distraction. Akin played right into their hands -- big time. Foul by Akin -- penalty shot for the Dems.

One expects fringe party candidates, or single-issue candidates (usually the same thing) to try to use elections to "educate the masses", and "raise awareness about ...". A candidate for a major party has to be concerned first about winning. He or she also has to be concerned about helping, not hurting the party. Akin was a shoo-in -- he never helped himself; and he's likely hurt the chances of other Republican candidates. That's just plain selfish. Selfish and stupid -- hardly a wining combo.

If you're a serious big-league politician; you "educate the masses" before or after the election. Akin should have laid the groundwork for his remarks years ago -- preferably through a coordinated effort with like-minded surrogates. Akin completely, and utterly failed in that regard.

If this campaign has revealed Akin's strategic and practical political skills -- the GOP, and the right-to-life movement would both be better off with someone else in office.