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The time has passed and Todd Akin has not withdrawn from as the Republican nominee for the Senate from Missouri. Virtually every Republican has called for him to step out as it would be in the best interest of the party and the nation.
Of course, to Todd Akin, Todd Akin is more important that a nation. He is more important than any other consideration. Not party, not nation or anything else.
The Cook Report, a respected political analyst has moved Missouri from a toss up to a safe Democrat seat.
How does Akin think he is going to win? The Republican National Senatorial Committee has said it is pulling $5 million in support if Akin stays in the race. Crossroads GPS has pulled its advertising in Missouri.
Well, Todd how the hell do you think you are going to pull this off? You are not going to have national support. Mitt Romney and every major Republican has called for you to step out.
His stupid comments on rape are going to be blasted all over the airwaves and what is he going to do about it? He won’t be advertising his version because he won’t have the money to do it.
Rush Limbaugh today said there is a double standard as it is applied to conservatives. He is right. There is. But what would he have done if Joe Biden had said something that stupid?
Scott Walker today came out telling Akin to drop out of the race. He is right.
This decision, the triumph of Todd Akin’s ego over any loyalty to party or nation may have additional consequence of hurting Romney in the national election. Right now most polls have Missouri as leaning Republican. However, a recent poll showed Romney with a single point lead over Obama.
Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R) is staying in the race, he stated today on The Dana Show and The Mike Huckabee Show. “I haven’t done anything morally or ethically wrong,” said Akin to Huckabee, two days after commenting on local television that in cases of “legitimate rape … the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin, who has apologized for the comments, insisted that the media backlash against him has been “a little bit of an overreaction.”
Akin also said, “We believe this stand is going to strengthen our country, going to strengthen, ultimately, the Republican Party.”
That’s not what the Republican Party believes, to be sure. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday on national television that Akin should drop out of the race, and shouldn’t show up to the Republican National Convention. Senators Scott Brown (R-MA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) called on Akin to leave. American Crossroads, a super PAC run by Karl Rove, said they’d pull their cash out of the campaign; so did the National Republican Senatorial Committee. In fact, there was virtual unanimity across the conservative spectrum that Akin should drop out.
The Democratic Party, though, is eager to keep Akin in the race. In fact, they spent some $1.5 million in the Republican Missouri primaries to boost him to victory over two other candidates. And Claire McCaskill, his incumbent Democratic opponent, has carefully avoided calling for Akin to step aside.
The fallout for Republican hopes to win a Senate majority are severe. Earlier this morning, pollster Larry Sabato moved the Missouri Senate race from a leaning Republican race to a toss up. Snap polls show Akin’s support dropping dramatically. And he’ll have far less money to spend now that vast swaths of the conservative movement have pulled out of his race.
There are many names that we can call Todd Akin. Patriot is not one of them.
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Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips 14 minutes ago
Alan Keyes was not only a disaster, he was literally the only guy the GOP could find. There are several good alternatives here. Akins has taken Missouri from being a likely Republican Pick up to a safe democrat seat. This could decide control of the senate. This guy is an idiot. There is a reason why the Dems spent $1.5 million to make sure he was the nominee. There was one decent and one really good alternative to Akins. Now he is going to cost the GOP the Missouri seat and possibly do untold damage to the country. His ego is as big as the state.
Permalink Reply by Joseph Jr Vanchieri 43 minutes ago
Todd Akins is a RINO. He is full of his warped sense of what is right. I believe that he should not only drop out of the race but out of public service. Abortion is a very sensitive subject and needs to be aproached that way. Todd is as callous as you can get. I hope in the end he gives into not pressure but what is right.
Permalink Reply by Vic Rauch 26 minutes ago
Just about ANY RINO is far better than Clair! Go Todd!
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I for one...did not jump on the GOLDEN CALF repubilcan WITCH TRIALS. I was waiting for "STAGE LEFT" of the modern girls at the new version of 1691-1693 to get on the WITNESS stand and complain loudly that they were being pinched:

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Permalink Reply by Royce Latham 30 minutes ago
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As far as I know, Bill Clinton, unlike U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin, has never misspoken on the subject of rape. In fact, he is somewhat of an authority on the subject.
Clinton knows just what a woman who has been raped should do. As he told Juanita Broaddrick in that Little Rock hotel room some years back, “You better get some ice on that.”
Broaddrick was not alone in being sexually abused by Clinton. Indeed, in the Ken Starr investigation, Broaddrick emerged as “Jane Doe No. 5.”
Broaddrick was likely not unique in being raped by Clinton either. In his book, “Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story,” Michael Isikoff relates how Clinton, then Arkansas governor, had sex with former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen.
“It was rough sex,” Isikoff writes, “Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen later told friends. But it was consensual.”
Isikoff missed the lip-biting connection. He also failed to acknowledge that at least one of Gracen’s friends, Judy Stokes, had told the Paula Jones legal team that the sex was not consensual at all.
“Do you believe Clinton raped her?” investigator Rick Lambert asked her. “Absolutely,” Stokes replied. “He forced her to have sex. What do you call that?”
I cite the Gracen story because it helps substantiate the story Broaddrick told Lisa Myers on NBC’s “Dateline” in 1999.
Broaddrick: “And he came around me and sort of put his arm over my shoulder to point to this little building and he said he was real interested if he became governor to restore that little building and then all of a sudden, he turned me around and started kissing me. And that was a real shock.”
Myers: “What did you do?”
Broaddrick: “I first pushed him away and just told him ‘No, please don’t do that,’ and I forget, it’s been 21 years, Lisa, and I forget exactly what he was saying. It seems like he was making statements that would relate to ‘Did you not know why I was coming up here?’ and I told him at the time, I said, ‘I’m married, and I have other things going on in my life, and this is something that I’m not interested in.’”
Myers: “Had you, that morning, or any other time, given him any reason to believe you might be receptive?”
Broaddrick: “No. None. None whatsoever.”
Myers: “Then what happens?”
Broaddrick: “Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip (she cries). Just a minute … He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. (crying) And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him ‘No,’ that I didn’t want this to happen (crying) but he wouldn’t listen to me.”
Myers: “Did you resist, did you tell him to stop?”
Broaddrick: “Yes, I told him ‘Please don’t.’ He was such a different person at that moment, he was just a vicious awful person.”
Myers: “You said there was a point at which you stopped resisting?”
Broaddrick: “Yeah.”
Myers: “Why?”
Broaddrick: “It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to ‘Please stop.’ And that’s when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip.”
Hillary Clinton has a rape problem, too. From the beginning of Bill’s career, she has been busy suppressing “bimbo eruptions,” which is a deceptive way of saying she has been silencing women like Broaddrick and Gracen.
The media have been enabling both of them. Allow me to share a nugget from Bill and Hillary’s memorably dishonest “60 Minutes” appearance in late January 1992, the one that would save his candidacy and help launch the perversely labeled “Republican War on Women.”
Steve Kroft:[Gennifer Flowers] is alleging and has described in some detail in the supermarket tabloid what she calls a 12-year affair with you.
Bill Clinton: That allegation is false.
Hillary Clinton: … Bill talked to this woman every time she called, distraught, saying her life was going to be ruined, and he’d get off the phone and tell me that she said sort of wacky things, which we thought were attributable to the fact that she was terrified.
Bill Clinton: It was only when money came out, when the tabloid went down there offering people money to say that they had been involved with me, that she changed her story. There’s a recession on.
A master politician, even in this moment of deepest political peril, candidate Clinton remembered to remind the American people “there is a recession on.” For the record, Clinton would admit the affair with Flowers under oath but lie about the details. Perjury, rape, no big deal!
While Todd Akin is stewing in the woodshed, Bill Clinton is preparing to speak at the Democratic National Convention, and the women most offended by Akin’s dumb remarks will be queuing up to cheer Clinton on. Yes, it is a mental disorder.
Permalink Reply by Vic Rauch 20 minutes ago
Great write up. bill clinton has always been, since starting public office, a criminal. But the Dems sure don't mind him at all because he's liberal. I'm VERY glad Todd Akin has stayed in the race, and I say, let's ALL get behind him and win this seat!!!!
Permalink Reply by David Williams 27 minutes ago
Whatever. It may be in the best interest of the Republican Party to step aside but it is not in the best interest of the People for Akin to step aside.
Akin is actually one of the most conservative Senators we have; yet, he says one thing that the Democrats can twist and use to attack him and there are those that want to thrown him under the bus? This is stupid. The Democrats are constantly saying and doing things that are far more dangerous and outrageous and they rarely ever throw their own under the bus.
Akin did the right thing by not stepping down. Now this puts the ball back on Carl Rove and the Republican Party who dared to pull their financial support for a setting Senator to either back him or to continue to help the Democrats take that seat. God bless Senator Akin.
Permalink Reply by Vic Rauch 20 minutes ago
Great job David! Thank you for your post.
Permalink Reply by Timothy W. O'Leary 12 minutes ago
I prefer a person loyal to human life to someone loyal to a screwed up political party. and both parties are totally screwed up.
Hope Todd wins, it will be a huge victory for morality in politics.
BTW: The Clintons are slugs and a disgrace to this country.
Permalink Reply by gary brown 1 minute ago
@Norman First don't yell at me you’re not my parents, as a matter of fact you couldn't take my parents trash to the corner. As for your lord he is just that your lord not mine. I see you’re a far right Republican nut job. If you understood the use of the English language in abstract you would understand what I was saying. In defense of the lord’s word this idiot was not up to the task so he should be dumped for the sake of the word of Christ your lord! You need to be a little more tolerant your scraped knuckles are showing!
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