Cook Report Renders Final Judgement, Akin Unelectable

by Matt Vespa | August 23, 2012 7:29 pm

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According to Gateway Pundit[2], the Cook Report labeled Akin “unelectable,” clearing the way for a second term for Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill. : Pundit wrote:

In four days Cook Political has moved the Missouri Senate race from: “solid Republican”: to“toss up”: to: “likely Democrat”: to: “unelectable”.

Cook Political: Report has declared Todd Akin “unelectable” and moved the 2012 U.S. senate race in Missouri to a projected Democrat win.

Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin’s comment over the weekend about “legitimate rape” has: rendered him unelectable: in his bid against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Todd Akin is 2012’s Political Idiot Of the Year. : He faced one of the weakest Democratic incumbents and managed to blow it because he seemed to feel that fellow Missourians didn’t know his position on abortion. : Todd, Missourians know your position on that issue. : You’re a Republican! You could have pivoted away and talked about the economy, McCaskill’s faux deficit hawk narrative, her laughable statement that the Senate passed a budget[3], or her voting record which shows: she voted with Obama 95% of the time[4].

Nope. You had to make some rather nonsensical comments about rape and pregnancy. : In addition, you mentioned bodily functions that the female body does not possess. : No wonder the people abandoned you. : I would too!

However, some on the right are still supporting Akin’s campaign of self-destruction.

Mike Huckabee blasted this email out today[5]: to his supporters.

The deadline came and went on Tuesday for Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin to drop out over an incorrect comment he made about rape. The Republican establishment put unprecedented and intense pressure on Todd to quit, including five current and past Missouri Senators. But in an exclusive interview on my radio show, Akin said he’s “in this race to the end.” He said he admitted he misspoke and that his statement was not accurate, but he’d sincerely apologized. You can listen to the audio from that interview here.

The Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren’t rational, left him behind on the political battlefield, wounded and bleeding, a casualty of his self-inflicted, but not intentional wound. In a Party that supposedly stands for life, it was tragic to see the carefully orchestrated and systematic attack on a fellow Republican. Not for a moral failure or corruption or a criminal act, but for a misstatement which he contritely and utterly repudiated. I was shocked by GOP leaders and elected officials who rushed so quickly to end the political life of a candidate over a mistaken comment in an interview. This was a serious mistake, but it was blown out of proportion not by the left, but by Akin’s own Republican Party. Is this what the party really thinks of principled pro-life advocates? Do we forgive and forget the verbal gaffes of Republicans who are “conveniently pro-life” for political advantage, but crucify one who truly believes that every life is sacred?

Who ordered this “Code Red” on Akin? There were talking point memos sent from the National Republican Senatorial Committee suggesting language to urge Akin to drop out. Political consultants were ordered to stay away from Akin or lose future business with GOP committees. Operatives were recruited to set up a network of pastors to call Akin to urge him to get out. Money has changed hands to push him off the plank. It is disgraceful. From the spotlights of political offices and media perches, it may appear that the demand for Akin’s head is universal in the party. I assure you it is not. There is a vast, but mostly quiet army of people who have an innate sense of fairness and don’t like to see a fellow political pilgrim bullied. If Todd Akin loses the Senate seat, I will not blame Todd Akin. He made his mistake, but was man enough to admit it and apologize. I’m waiting for the apology from whoever the genius was on the high pedestals of our party who thought it wise to not only shoot our wounded, but run over him with tanks and trucks and then feed his body to the liberal wolves. It wasn’t just Todd Akin that was treated with contempt by the thinly veiled attack on Todd Akin. It was all the people who have faithfully knocked doors, made calls, and made sacrificial contributions to elect Republicans because we thought we were welcome in the party. Todd Akin owned his mistake. Who will step up and admit the effort being made to discredit Akin and apologize for the sleazy way it’s been handled?

I’ve always believed and still do, that if you don’t honor your friendships, you don’t honor yourself. And I consider Todd a friend. So I will join Todd as often as I can, in his fight for our Party’s pro-life policies, traditional marriage and our efforts to rein in the massive expansion of government under President Obama. Todd is being systematically scourged for one thing he said. Is that more important than what Claire McCaskill has DONE over her 6 years in the Senate? If you’d like to join the fight, and help defeat a Democrat Senator standing in the way of a conservative majority, I encourage you to join me. The party has decided it won’t help. In fact, it has decided that it will try to cut off the supply lines to Akin to pressure him to exit and let the party bosses overturn the voters of Missouri and pick their own candidate. If this can happen to Todd Akin, who is next?

I’ve heard the talk of new deadlines and the nonsense about the Republican Party running a 3rd party candidate, but I am no longer listening to that noise. The idea that our Party would continue to play games behind the scenes and feed the Democrats make-believe narrative of the GOP’s fictional war on women is equally ridiculous. Now is the time to focus on electing a conservative Senate Majority. And if the NRSC and RNC and the money-rich PACS won’t help Todd Akin get us to the majority, then we’ll do it without them. And his seat will not have been sold to the highest bidder, but obtained by the highest principles.

I like Mike Huckabee, but the assertion that you’re a RINO if you don’t support Todd Akin is absurd. : He’s going to lose. : He made statements that made the party look bad and needlessly and recklessly : changed the narrative that makes liberals foam at the mouth. The Code Red was necessary. : Ace of Spades cited Jim Geraghty of National Review who wrote about Akin’s “epic denial”[6] about his chances of winning in November.

We’ve seen this before – a candidate makes nonsensical, controversial, or self-destructive statements before the electorate, and the electorate recoils. The rest of the GOP sees signs of trouble, and starts expressing those concerns in increasing volume, but the candidate resists the urge to withdraw from the race. The candidate and the campaign insist to the rest of the party that they know what they’re doing, that the race is still winnable, and that the world will soon be shocked by a most unexpected victory. We saw it from: Katherine Harris[7]: in 2006, and from: Christine O’Donnell[8],: Sharron Angle[9], and: Carl Paladino[10]: in 2010.

These candidates and their teams: always: insist that they know better. They: alwaysinsist that they have some sort of secret understanding of the race, some sort of secret game plan or strategy that will completely change the circumstances. And they: always, always, always: lose.

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Endnotes:
  1. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Screen-Shot-2012-08-23-at-7.28.10-PM.png
  2. According to Gateway Pundit: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/cook-political-calls-missouri-for-mccaskill-declares-akin-unelectable/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gatewaypundit2+%28Gateway+Pundit%29&utm_content=FaceBook
  3. her laughable statement that the Senate passed a budget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bQGul__Fx8&feature=player_embedded
  4. she voted with Obama 95% of the time: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/republicans-even-skipping-convention-mccaskill-still-best-friends-with-obama.php
  5. Mike Huckabee blasted this email out today: http://thepage.time.com/2012/08/23/huckabee-goes-all-in-for-akin/
  6. who wrote about Akin’s “epic denial”: http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/314837/epic-denial-akin-campaign
  7. Katherine Harris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Harris#2006_Senate_race
  8. Christine O’Donnell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Delaware,_2010
  9. Sharron Angle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Nevada,_2010
  10. Carl Paladino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_gubernatorial_election,_2010
  11. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Screen-Shot-2012-08-21-at-12.37.13-AM1.png

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