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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2012 => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 25, 2012, 02:51:29 PM
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Ooooh boy.
Tea party leader reverses stance on Akin
By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times September 25, 2012, 12:31PM
A tea party blogger who initially urged Rep. Todd Akin to step down after his "legitimate rape" gaffe is now calling on conservatives to support him, saying larger interests are at stake.
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips wrote that "it's time to take one for the team," and support Mr. Akin — simply to stop his opponent, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, from winning a second term and helping Democrats keep their Senate majority.
"We conservatives, as much as we may not like it, we must support Akin," Mr. Phillips wrote. "He may mean the difference between Republican control of the Senate and failure."
He framed it as a lesser-of-two-evils type of decision.
Gotta say that I agree with the last statement. I may have to send the Akin campaign a few bucks.
The rest is here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/sep/25/tea-party-leader-reverses-stance-akin/#ixzz27VsRvZQb
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I have to agree, what the guy said really was stupid - that said everything barack and bite-me say is stupid.
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I have to agree, what the guy said really was stupid - that said everything barack and bite-me say is stupid.
Great point. I always wonder WHY conservatives MUST be on the straight and narrow BUT the dems can be total idiots and still win........... nobody seems to notice the dem idiots are idiots.
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We can't afford to support people just because they are R, then they have license to do anything because they know no matter what they do they will get the votes.
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Great point. I always wonder WHY conservatives MUST be on the straight and narrow BUT the dems can be total idiots and still win........... nobody seems to notice the dem idiots are idiots.
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I think it is because "idiot" is the natural state of the dems.
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He definitely put his foot in his mouth, but there is actual medical fact behind his statement. Probably due to stress, women are less likely to get pregnant from rape.
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He definitely put his foot in his mouth, but there is actual medical fact behind his statement. Probably due to stress, women are less likely to get pregnant from rape.
If I could vote for him, I would cause he is 10 times better than the left wing liberal Democrat. He apologized for his stupid mistake.
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In another thread about this man, St Louis Woman mentions she has met this guy and said he is top notch.
There is some old medical advice out there that his comments were based on, and he was put on the spot during the talk show.
We all tend to open our mouths when we should simply say nothing.
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In another thread about this man, St Louis Woman mentions she has met this guy and said he is top notch.
There is some old medical advice out there that his comments were based on, and he was put on the spot during the talk show.
We all tend to open our mouths when we should simply say nothing.
There have been a couple of studies, not all that long ago, that do say stress can prevent a woman from getting pregnant.
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For a guy who loves to cloak himself in Christian righteousness, Akin seems to have a pretty dim grasp of the idea that pride is supposed to be a mortal sin. Unfortunately we're stuck with a choice between a prideful idiot or a brazen crooked witch who is no less self-righteous and an Obamabot to boot. Not a hard choice to make, much as it pains me to have to vote for the idiot.
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In another thread about this man, St Louis Woman mentions she has met this guy and said he is top notch.
There is some old medical advice out there that his comments were based on, and he was put on the spot during the talk show.
We all tend to open our mouths when we should simply say nothing.
Yup. If Romney is ever asked about his political views on abortion, he should merely state that Roe V Wade is the settled law of the land.
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For a guy who loves to cloak himself in Christian righteousness, Akin seems to have a pretty dim grasp of the idea that pride is supposed to be a mortal sin. Unfortunately we're stuck with a choice between a prideful idiot or a brazen crooked witch who is no less self-righteous and an Obamabot to boot. Not a hard choice to make, much as it pains me to have to vote for the idiot.
I'd never heard of the guy until that story broke. In what way is he "prideful"? Since I don't live in his area and can't vote for him, I am unfamiliar with him other than this story.
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Yup. If Romney is ever asked about his political views on abortion, he should merely state that Roe V Wade is the settled law of the land.
He did in 1994 and the republicans called him pro-choice and the democrats called him fake pro-choice
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I'd never heard of the guy until that story broke. In what way is he "prideful"? Since I don't live in his area and can't vote for him, I am unfamiliar with him other than this story.
Since he's running for Senate, his 'area' is the whole state. Prideful, because he was too convinced of his own wonderfulness to stand aside and let a better candidate run when it was clear he had hopelessly screwed the pooch (Clear to everyone but him in his pride, anyway) and there was all the time in the world to reboot. He shot himself in the foot with his mouth cannon with his ridiculous blather about women having 'natural defenses' against conception in the case of rape (The part of his comments that for some reason got almost no attention compared to his actually-understandable but poorly-communicated comment on 'Legitimate rape,' meaning simply that he did not want to set up an exception that would just end up fostering a raft of spurious rape allegations to get access to elective abortion). Frankly it troubles me as a man to think someone running for high office is that damned ignorant about biology, God knows what most of the female electorate must think about him on the substance of it, to the extent they're aware that those widely-ignored comments were made in the same appearance.
McCaskill, on the other hand, is not ignorant but is about as corrupt, crooked, and partisan in the use of any power she's ever had as a Chicago mayor, so there is of course no question about which way to vote. The only thing that can really salvage him is Democrats staying home and enough coattail effect from an energized, record-high-turnout Conservative vote to nudge him across the line, regardless what they think of his own judgment on a niche issue. Sure, he will win the one-issue pro-life vote hands down, but that's his only clear strength, and it is not enough to carry him by itself under average turnout.
The Dem candidate's minions invested 1.5 mil in him in the primary race because they figured he was the easiest to beat of the three contenders, either one of which would be kicking her ass in November. His blunder, and subsequent proud refusal to own that he blundered, is making it look like money well-spent. Other than going all in for Obamacare, McCaskill hasn't done anything to draw any particular fire in her whole term, and judging by her BS ads, for the past month or two she has been trying desperately to draw away from the Obama she couldn't tie herself too closely too for the past three and half years, since even the skewed polling we have indicates he isn't that likely to carry Missouri.