Big name conservatives rally for Todd Akin; GOP establishment warms
The final deadline for Missouri Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin to drop from the race came and went on September 25, and he did not.
The GOP establishment that had stood alongside Democrats and feminists to castigate Akin for his August 19 “legitimate rape” misstep must now eat crow. The polls and grasp of the U.S. Senate are too close.
This entire debacle separated pseudo-conservative Republicans who put party above principle from real ones who do the opposite. They will say they were just being pragmatic. But c’mon, they way overreacted. The other side would never abandon one of its own were the situation reversed. But the other side walks in lockstep on abortion, while our side is afraid of and/or double-minded about it.
So we saw Missouri U.S. Senator Ray Blunt write in a statement the morning after the deadline passed, “I’ll be working for the Republican ticket in Missouri, and that includes Todd Akin,” when back in August Blunt was one of five Missouri senators to write in a statement that Akin should “step aside.”
Now the National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling Akin “a far more preferable candidate than liberal Senator Claire McCaskill,” and that “we will continue to monitor this race closely,” i.e., spend money on Akin if his polls look good. NRSC’s backpedal earned it the “worst week in Washington” award in a Washington Post op ed.
Even Karl Rove’s American Crossroads super-PAC appears to be equivocating, spokesman Nate Hodson telling ABC, “You kind of know where we are on Missouri. We don’t discuss any strategy moving forward” – tepid opposition at best, this after Rove wished for Akin to sleep with the fishes only a few weeks back.
Meanwhile, social conservative favorites Rick Santorum and U.S. Senator Jim DeMint issued a joint endorsement on September 26, and DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund, nemesis to colleague John Cornyn’s NRSC, pledged $290,000. Gary Bauer through his Campaign for Working Families has pledged a “six-figure” expenditure to help Akin.
Phyllis Schlafly also expressed her support and went further to ask people in an email on September 26 to call RNC Chairman Reince Priebus (202-863-8500) and Cornyn (202-675-6000) “and tell them they have an obligation to reverse their decision cutting off Republican money from Todd Akin. They have an obligation to open those bank accounts so Todd Akin and Mitt Romney can carry Missouri, the bellwether state.”
This might be why Preibus, who ludicrously claimed back in August, “He can be tied, we’re not gonna send him a penny,” said on September 28 Akin was “absolutely” a better option than McCaskill.
Former House Speaker and presidential Newt Gingrich was campaigning for Akin even before the deadline and defended him well on Greta Van Susteran’s show last week.
Next to the presidential race, the Akin/McCaskill race will be the one I most pay attention to on November 6.
Please donate to Akin’s campaign here. Elect an authentic pro-lifer who may also help wrest the U.S. Senate from Harry Reid.
[Top photo via bloggingwhileblue.com; bottom photo via the Los Angeles Times]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
This guy is a nut, sorry.
He’s our nut.
He reiterated a bad-science idea from a very well-respected leader in the pro-life movement. That one slip-up doesn’t begin to compare to all the politicians who pretend they don’t know where babies come from, or that questions of life or death are just a religious doctrine like how to baptize someone.
Hi Hans,
He also didn’t leave a woman to drown, sexually abuse or assault women, flash a woman, or have a young intern his daughter’s age service him in his congressional office. Compared to what the voters have been willing to turn a blind eye to, this is pretty trivial.
Hi Mary,
His greatest sin is being a Republican. Even to fellow Republicans, it seems.
The GOP rewards morons and cretins. What else is new?
Anyone see Doonsebury this weekend? Or shall I call it Duncebury?
Attention all libs: This is the correct use of “fertlized egg” in a sentence:
“After the egg is fertlized, the zygote begins to develop.”
An egg, once fertilized, ceases to be an egg. What used to be an egg and a sperm are now something else. This NEW being is in constant and rapid development. Contrary to what libs and PP want you to think, a “fertilized egg” is not a noun that hangs out in the fallopian tubes, drinking mint juleps for a few days before deciding whether or not to begin growth and development. If any of you think you are on the side of science, then I heartily recommend you study SCIENCE.
It is about time that the GOP began to back Akin. I have to say that this has been an eye opening experience for this prolifer about how politics work. I now realize that a politicisn does not need to be elected before they can do something for you or your cause. Don’t give your vote away before you have garnered what you want.
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Joan – remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs&feature=player_embedded
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=UEmjwR0Rs20&NR=1
Ms. Lewinsky was only 22 years-old at the time of the “inappropriate relationship.” No abuse of power there.
And Joan my personal favourite by Mr. Obama himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL7ak__MGyw&feature=player_embedded
Joan, is Obamacare a tax or not?
First, it is a bit comical to have a troll calling Akin a moron.
And like the trolls our main stream media huffs and puffs indignant whenever a conservative misspeaks, but when it comes to their own…well that is quite another thing…they can do no wrong. Look at the way they circle the wagons around the sexual predator Billy Bill Clinton. Aww, shucks pardner, he is just a good ol boy that didn’t mean no harm to that trailer trash and assorted bimbos that he is accused of raping. Why, he is the greatest thing ever! But that Akin fellow…now he is downright dangerous!
Thanks Jill. I know quite a few people refused to donate to the RNC and its senatorial arm because of what they did to Akin.
joan 4:29PM
Speaking of morons and cretins, do you not wonder what world leaders think when Obama can’t make time to meet with them but then they turn on the TV and see him koffeeklutching with the ladies on The View, where he refers to himself as “eye candy”(ptui)? As Americans we should be appalled and embarassed.
Small wonder the world’s tyrants want to see him re-elected.
Hi Jerry,
Great post. Another contrast I found interesting were the efforts to portray Clarence Thomas, a black man, as the drooling stereotypical black sexual predator and Clinton, a white guy accused of far worse, as just a lovable white bubba having a little fun. Shades of the Jim Crow south. Where were the NAACP, and the Revs. Al Charlatan and Jesse Jackson when it came to this blatantly racist double standard?
Even Billy Graham made excuses for Clinton, the reason I have absolutely NO respect for the man and never will again.
I wonder how many of you would have supported Clayton Williams when he ran for Texas governor?
You know, if raped, women should just lay back and enjoy it?
Probably most of you. After all, women deserve it if they are raped, right? You want them to carry a rape pregnancy to term to remind them how much they deserve to be raped. 270 or so days of pregnancy should do the trick. Why not let the rapist have a day pass so he can be there during labor as a coach? How “family oriented” that would be.
Better yet, since Teabagging Sharon Barnes of Missouri thinks rape pregnancies are gifts from God, why not just have all women who want to become pregnant line up for their rapes? If they don’t get pregnant from rape the first time, try, try again.
Mary, would you like some cheese with your whine?
joan, Israel can fend for itself. Our idiotic policy regarding Israel is based on fictitious Bible prophecy. No American lives for that terrorist state.
xalisae,
Be careful what you wish for. He’s baaack!
I think he’s a different guy (a sockpuppet of that John person from a few days ago).
I know, Hans! I feel like a summoner or something.
Steve,
Please address the issue I raised in my post, assuming you can.
If you have such “concern” for women who are victims of sexual predators, you might want to say something about Bill Clinton, who has been accused of sexual assault by several women, addressing the Democrat National Convention. You might also want to give your opinion on the goon squads who trashed the women who accused Clinton, among them James Carville.
If Steve wants to be taken seriously about his concern for women who are victims of sexual predators, he might also consider refraining from using and capitalizing an extremely impolite and offensive adjective for a woman to whom I’m quite sure it does not apply. Don’t slander.
Thank you, Mary, for once-again pointing out the flagrant media double-standard. The Oval Office should have been fumigated after Bubba left office, but now he’s the most admired living ex-President and running interference for the Indonesian Barry Soetoro
Meanwhile, it looks like with Romney’s coattails, and no thanks to most of the GOP, Akin just might win anyway.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/missouris-akin-left-for-dead-on-comeback-trail/article/2509741#.UGyax1E5AdW
I think there is some divine justice happening to Mr. Romney and his campaign due to his failure to support Mr. Akin. It is a bit more than ironic that Mr. Romney is being damaged by an “inelegant” comment. Like Mr. Akin, he made and a mistake and his comment covered his true decent nature. I am sure Mr. Akin could give Mr. Romney some advice on how to hang in there when people question your character.
The 47% comment does not legitimately reflect the values/views of Mr. Romney.
There are more divine reasons for offering forgiveness to others but there is a very practical reason to offer forgiveness to others: one day you may need it from them. If you live by the sword, you shall die by the sword.