| The Todd Akin mess | |
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| Baldo | Aug 22 2012, 12:45 PM Post #76 |
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Akin has done the impossible. He has POed the Rinos, Romney camp, and the Tea Party.You pretty much can't do anything more than that in GOP party Politics. Playing the Party Boss line was another stupid move, one of many he continues to make. He isn't a victim of anything but his own stupidity and pride. Campaigns are about money, without they will wither & die. I don't know the future, but without republican outside campaign money his chances diminish greatly and he knows that. He is just a stubborn fool at this time. who would rather proclaim how right he is, instead of facing reality. Somebody we don't need in DC. BTW Sarah Palin warned about Akin long ago when she campaigned for Sarah Steelman in the primary Sarah Palin urged Todd Akin to leave the Missouri Senate race on Tuesday, telling Fox News' Greta Van Susteren that the embattled Republican congressman and U.S. Senate candidate should "take one for the team" after his "legitimate rape" comments set off a political firestorm. "This is not going in his favor, so you have to step aside from self, from yourself, your desire to get in there and serve and do what you believe is right, and you have to, in a sense, take one for the team," the former Alaska governor said. "You have to step aside. Hand the mantle to someone else." Read more: http://times247.com/articles/palin-to-akin-take-one-for-the-team#ixzz24IY33WwV Edited by Baldo, Aug 22 2012, 01:00 PM.
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| kbp | Aug 22 2012, 01:17 PM Post #77 |
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I'm not seeing many stepping up for him, not even the anti-abortion activists. He's bad news at this time. |
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| chatham | Aug 22 2012, 01:29 PM Post #78 |
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On Rush today. There is some indication that one of the fem.nazi womens group accepted Akins apology because one of their studies indicates that a woman does have some influence over a rape. Just hearsay from Rush. In all honesty, this guy does need to go and everyone knows it. But he has apologized. Why isnt anyone talking about the late term abortions that the democrats do not make gaffes about. Why not try to change the subject. Jeez, its the liberals that are driving this issue and the longer it stays out there the worse it will get. It wont end with Akin not running. We need to change the subject to the liberals view of killing babies. Not akins gaffe. Someone look at the democrats platform and find me where it says abortion is ok if a rape occurred. I cant find it. and If it is not there??? |
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| Baldo | Aug 22 2012, 01:44 PM Post #79 |
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Even Rush said just a few minutes ago Akin must go. As Rush said we just can't make unforced errors. So we have Romney, Ryan, Palin, four former US senators from Missouri, the Speaker of the House, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the GOP National Chairman, Tea Party Express, and countless pundits including Rush & Hannity say he must go. |
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| Mason | Aug 22 2012, 02:22 PM Post #80 |
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. What can Dems say to get this media and politcal response? Someone answer me that. Is it a coincidence that Joe Biden said the Republican Budget would lead to more women being Raped and more people being murdered? He said it at least twice, publicly. Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4E57b-Z4Ko This is not a Missouri Senate candidate, but the Vice President of the United States. How about him telling a black crowd that the Republicans are "gonna put y'all back in Chains?" And Obama stood behind that statement. The double standard is so amazing. This reminds me of Trent Lott, was it, saying something a birthday party, and everyone jumped on to ride him out of town. Assumming the worst interpretation of his remarks. . |
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| kbp | Aug 22 2012, 02:31 PM Post #81 |
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The media is biased, but that doesn't make what Akin said any better ...to run on the Bite It standards. It's a tough election before you start trying to rehab a candidate that really stuck his foot in his mouth. |
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| Mason | Aug 22 2012, 02:35 PM Post #82 |
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. How many Senate candidates are there versus Vice President? I would think VP would be a higher standard. about 200 to 1. Edited by Mason, Aug 22 2012, 02:35 PM.
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| kbp | Aug 22 2012, 02:37 PM Post #83 |
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I hope for the best if Akin stays, but it resembles a 'dumb down' move to voluntarily select the Bite It standard as a guideline. |
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| Mason | Aug 22 2012, 02:42 PM Post #84 |
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. Dem Rep caught having sex in bushes at Truck Stop with 17 yr old. Did the Media cover it? Did the Dems condemn it? http://regator.com/p/257210634/minnesota_state_democratic_representative_caught_having_oral_sex/ . |
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| Deleted User | Aug 22 2012, 02:52 PM Post #85 |
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Rush spent most of the day denying he suggested Akin step down yesterday. He also said toward the latter part of his show that he sensed caller from Missouri were not so eager to allow party bosses call the shots. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 22 2012, 02:56 PM Post #86 |
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Did we hear one Democrat ever call for Bill Clinton to step aside after his affair with an intern? No, that was a personal matter between he and Hillary. Akin may have screwy views on rape/pregnancy that he claims come from doctors (although so far he hasn't trotted any of them out to defend him), but it's one issue. I don't for a second believe that all Republicans view the abortion issue the same. I would hope that Romney believes he can still win Missouri with or without Akin. |
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| Baldo | Aug 22 2012, 03:18 PM Post #87 |
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On the lighter side Why Is Missouri Called the "Show-Me" State? There are a number of stories and legends behind Missouri's sobriquet "Show-Me" state. The slogan is not official, but is common throughout the state and is used on Missouri license plates. The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying. Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him." However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.asp |
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| chatham | Aug 22 2012, 03:43 PM Post #88 |
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Trent Lott said happy birthday and other trivia this person ran for president..... Strom Thirmond ============= Byrd was obviously insulted for being left off the all white list, so the democrats got rid of a Lott. |
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| chatham | Aug 22 2012, 03:44 PM Post #89 |
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Remember the great orator was accused of a few rapes when he was governing his home state. Now he gets the honor of telling us about it at the DNC. |
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| MikeZPU | Aug 22 2012, 05:41 PM Post #90 |
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Sandra Fluke commentary on Akin emailed to Obama supporters, attempting to claim Akin's remarks are totally consistent with the Republican platform: Friend -- In a recent statement that was both factually inaccurate and horribly offensive, Republican Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said that victims of "legitimate rape" don't get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark -- but the fact is they're in lockstep with Akin on the major women's health issues of our time. Just this morning, the Republican Party voted to include the "Human Life Amendment" in their platform, calling for a constitutional ban on abortions nationwide, even for rape victims. Several Romney supporters and advisers stood silently by while this vote took place, and the Los Angeles Times reports that the platform "was written at the direction of Romney's campaign." President Obama spoke out in response to Akin's comments: "What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women." This controversy is not an accident, or a mistake, or an isolated incident. It's a reflection of a Republican Party whose policies are dangerous for women. There is a clear choice for women in this election: Stand with President Obama. I entered this national debate on women's rights in February, when, as a Georgetown Law student, I testified before members of Congress on the issue of contraception. Without knowing me or my story, Rush Limbaugh called me a "slut" and a "prostitute" on his radio show. Many Americans stepped forward to tell me they agreed with me, and supported my right to speak out without being verbally attacked. President Obama stood with us. Mitt Romney, on the other hand? He didn't even condemn the remark, instead saying only: "It's not the language I would have used." Since that moment, I'm even more resolved to continue the fight to make sure every single woman -- and every man who cares about the women in his life -- knows exactly what's at stake in this election. The Republicans are frighteningly clear on these issues. The party platform itself includes a "salute" to states that have pushed "informed consent" laws, such as those that force women seeking an abortion to first undergo an invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound. Just last year, Paul Ryan joined Todd Akin and more than 200 other Republicans in co-sponsoring legislation that would have narrowed the definition of rape, limiting which victims of rape were "legitimate" enough to receive financial assistance for access to abortion care. Mitt Romney famously says he would "get rid of" Planned Parenthood if he had the chance. And both Romney and Ryan pledge to go back to a system where insurance companies can discriminate against women and charge us more than men for the same health insurance. Akin's comments shouldn't be surprising. But this isn't about him -- just like it was never about me. President Obama has told us what he's fighting for: "I want women to control their own health choices, just like I want my daughters to have the same opportunities as your sons." Republicans, led by Romney and Ryan, have made it clear that they want to make our decisions for us. President Obama trusts us to make our own. It's as simple as that. Join me and stand with him today: http://my.barackobama.com/A-Clear-Choice Thanks, Sandra Fluke Edited by MikeZPU, Aug 22 2012, 05:41 PM.
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