[Strategerist]

permit a conservative like Akin to win.

Akin stabbed himself in the back, not Karl Rove. He lost the moment that sentence left his mouth. It was a SIXTEEN POINT MARGIN. Anyone who thinks that could have been turned around is on a wide variety of narcotic substances.

Most people in the country haven't even heard of Karl Rove, much less relying on him to tell them who to vote for.

[so_real]

Most people in the country haven't even heard of Karl Rove, much less relying on him to tell them who to vote for.

Really? Anyone who watched TV on election night knows who Karl Rove is. And anyone outside Missouri who knows who Todd Akin is, knows this because of the actions of Karl Rove and his fellow "elites". Akin's exact statement was:

"It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child."

Three little sentences, not terribly controversial, that only made it past Missouri's borders on to the national stage because Karl Rove and his GOP elites smelled an opportunity to replace a "religious conservative" with a "compassionate republican" -- and blew these comments out of proportion to facilitate this. We'd have been fools to not to fight that endeavor. And only because we did fight it has Rove's influence been somewhat marginalized in recent months.