MO: Akin could really blow this

[BigSkyBob]

You'd think a campaign in such desperation mode would use spell check!

...that's the card Akin is playing? Really? Sorry but I don't think donors are going to make the connection. Too loose.

If Republican rank-and-file cede their right to pick nominees to the establishment in Washington, then Charlie Crist will be the type of "Republican" they select. The seemlessness of Crist's transition from "Republican" to "Independent" to liberal Democrat ought to be an eyeopener to the rank-and-file.

[BigSkyBob]

You'd think a campaign in such desperation mode would use spell check!

What pray tell would the spellchecker flag?

[BigSkyBob]

Wow! I must admit that came out of the blue and runs contrary to all the polling evidence.

http://blogs.courier-journal.com/politics/2012/09/27/sen-john-cornyn-says-gop-is-not-going-to-spend-money-to-help-missouri-senate-candidate-todd-akin/

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said on Thursday that he does not intend to put money into the race of controversial Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin.

“We have no plans to do so,” Cornyn told The Courier-Journal in an interview just a short time ago.

“I just think that this is not a winnable race,” he said. “We have to make tough calculations based on limited resources and where to allocate it, where it will have the best likelihood of electing a Republican senator.”

Cornyn and the rest of the establishment screwed up badly and are trying to minimize the damage they have inflicted upon themselves. Their first line was that they wouldn't spend a dime even if the race was tied. Many conservatives correctly noted that was tantamount to an endorsement of McCaskill, whom voted for Obamacare and the trillion dollar "stimulus" boondoggle. That put Cornyn in the awkward position of soliciting conservatives to support Republican nominees in some states while de facto endorsing a liberal Democratic in MO.

Cornyn is now trying to smooth things over by claiming that he is not intentionally sandbagging Akin, but, rather merely bowing to the political reality that the RNC and Rove are sandbagging him. I suggest that this isn't going to go over well with conservatives. During the last weeks of 2010, the Republicans injected millions of dollars into California in a hopeless attempt to elect a moderate Senator there. Conservatives aren't blind to the reality that Cornyn's judgments about whom to triage, and whom to support, seem skewed against conservatives.

At this point, Cornyn's best option is simply to resign. If he wants to persist, his best option is spend a million on Akin in the next several days and see what happens.

[BigSkyBob]

The best option is for Akin to lose by a landslide, the better to teach a certain wing of the Pub party a lesson - a lesson that it seems necessary to be given frequently.

The best option is for Akin to win. It would teach another wing of the Republican party a lesson they don't seem to have accepted: conservatives nominees don't serve at their pleasure.

[BigSkyBob]

The best option is for Akin to lose by a landslide, the better to teach a certain wing of the Pub party a lesson - a lesson that it seems necessary to be given frequently.

The best option is for Akin to win. It would teach another wing of the Republican party a lesson they don't seem to have accepted: conservatives nominees don't serve at their pleasure.

Akin isn't 'conservative', he's a misogynistic [pick one: lunatic, idiot, bullsh**t artist].

It is precisely this sort of unjustified attack against Todd Akin that has engendered a backlash. If Todd Akins does win the race, one of the people he will have to thank is you.

[BigSkyBob]

An arrest does not make you a criminal.

He suggested recently that he opposes the Equal Pay Act.

That makes him a sexist. There is no reason to oppose that.

1) That makes him an opponent of the bill, no more, no less.

2) There are reasons to oppose the bill.