[chae]

Precisely. Claire was running ads in the primary touting Akin as the “true” conservative. And when you’ve got both Palin and Allen West telling you to get out of the race, you’ve lost any and all “tea party” bonafides you may have tried to lay claim to.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Precisely. Claire was running ads in the primary touting Akin as the “true” conservative. And when you’ve got both Palin and Allen West telling you to get out of the race, you’ve lost any and all “tea party” bonafides you may have tried to lay claim to.

All true - and I think you can add Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin to those calling for Akin to get out. What really irks me is how so many of the social ONLY cons fell for Akins schtick, fell for McCaskill's psych operation ad campaign, etc. We have some real lo fo folks on "our" side it seems…..