Huckabee is a fool.

Jeff Goldstein argues that conservatives and Establish Republicans panicked and hurt not only Akin but the cause by over reacting to Akin. A completely different take than Huckabee, but one that says conservatives should have defended Akin (at least in public). That if you are going to kill the king, you better well kill the king.

I do not disagree about the behind the scene stuff (my Godfather post, albeit not the most “pro life”, was a play on exactly that happening). Akin should have been pressured to resign privately. The public pressure was not helpful, but I know it was in part driven by the deadline to withdraw voluntarily. And some Republicans over reacted. That said, I disagree with Jeff over the impact of what Akin said. It was bad the moment Akin said it. The GOP reaction could have been better. Then again, Akin could have done us all a favor (including the pro life movement) and dropped out.

So now it is up to Akin: He can lose to McCaskill, win this thing, or try to get out and pass the baton to one of the other Republicans (possible but harder now the deadline is past).

The Almighty isn’t determined to destroy America. He’s just giving us enough of that rope called, “autonomy”. It’s up to us to exorcise the stupid.

Look, the damage to Romney-Ryan is done, whether Todd Akin drops out or not. The price for taking prolife support is that all Republicans get tarred with the same brush when a prolife candidate says something stupid.

As far as winning the U.S. Senate in Missouri, write it off. Of course Mr. Stupid Stubborn is too stupid and stubborn to drop out. How do you think he got into this mess?

The real reason Akin should drop out is not that he made a mistake, but that he made a mistake that betrays his purported prolife principles. Akin got himself nominated by being McCaskill’s stooge in the primary. What demand on party loyalty is there in that?

Nonetheless, if it’s a given that Akin won’t stand aside, he may have the only realistic chance to beat McCaskill. If Mike Huckabee wants to camapign for him, that at least might keep old Huck out of other trouble. Just knock off the whining.

Huckabee, in my view, is not “loyal” to anyone, but to himself. During 2008, what really turned me off to him was his pettiness and palpable ENVY of Romney, who outshines him in every way: looks, wealth, class, accomplishment. I have also detected this envy and disdain in him when it comes to Palin.
As for where we go from here – I am reminded of what Stacy said at the start of his Kimberlin imbroglio – never doubt that God answers prayers. The way I see it now, is that if the Dems want to have a conversation about a war on women and abortion, let’s have it:
- Clinton, accused rapist with a 40-year history of abusing women, is nominating Obama. REALLY, dudes? Juanita Broaderrick – was that “rape rape”?
- Almost 800,000 more women are now unemployed during the Obama economy
- Obama pays his female White House staffers 18% LESS on average than his male staffers
- former WH Communications Director Anita Dunn says that the Obama WH “fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”
- Obama supports abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy, something over 80% of Americans oppose
- Obama does not believe in parental notification of minors seeking abortions. So, if your daughter was raped and seeks an abortion, you will never know.
- Obama opposed, THREE times, a bill that would allow doctors to give life-saving measures to children born alive during botched abortions
- Obama believes a baby is “punishment.”
Anyone else have some zingers?

I agree with Goldstein – by overreacting that way, it was gift to the libs – they know that Republicans will run scared on abortion and rape. Expect every question to Romney and Ryan until November 6 to include those words.

But that being said, he has compounded his error by making himself immensely unlikeable – if Republicans think he is haughty and foolish, well, imagine what the people who aren’t already on his side must think.

Dead solid perfect.

He’s only a liability because of the Hysterics on the Right that has aided the Left in controlling this narrative.

The unqualified brilliance that is Mike Huckabee…

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Two points which ought to be clear as crystal:
1. Private persuasion would have been more effective than public outcry when attempting to get Akin to resign.
2. Now that he’s in to stay we should want him to win rather than McCaskill, since control of the Senate is all-important. Thus, more whining can do nothing but harm.

I don’t see why any realistic conservative or Republican would disagree with this.

Agreed.

Romney is Barbara Bush with better hair regarding his “pro-life” stance. He’s a GHWBush with MORE hair regarding his “Big Gummint” stance. (So is Ryan, by the way).

And Priebus (et al) who decided to pull their support of Akin forgot only one little detail: what is Plan B? Because it seems that they don’t have one.

So rather than constructing a cogent defense of Akin’s position, combined with a cogent smackdown of that ‘repels rape-seed’ inanity, the Pubbies have decided to shrug off more dead babies and kill off the licit nominee.

Sobran was right: their name is “the Stupid Party.”

Exactly. I’ve been hitting back at the “real conservatives” who keep trying to tell us all about Paul Ryan’s supposed “beltway, elitist GOP” membership, and that he’s way worse than Romney.

I tell them, Save that crap till after the election. The primary is over, and Akin is just the nasty bit of plaster that fell to the stage from the badly-maintained ceiling after the final curtain.

Now that it’s too late to “do” anything about Akin, I’m willing to soldier on as best we can. Maybe we can drag him over the finish line. But after the week of high-level calls to withdraw, no national powerhouse conservative will have any impact on his chances of winning. It’s up to him and Missourians, now.

I ain’t holding my breath. I think he’s toast. But we have work to do.

If you heard Levin’s rant the other night, you might be surprised. Running scared is the opposite of what should happen. Rubbing their faces in the fact of the impeached, sexual predator that’s going to speak at their convention is only the start of how to push back.

Methinks you suffer from a rather severe case of political myopia and ignorance.

Oh, there’s no doubt about it.

Come on people! Ghostbusters.

One more reason for Akin to quit – just think of the damage he does if he actually pulls out a win. He already knows the whole party is against him, and relishes it – what makes him think he can accomplish anything as a single Senator the other 99 think is a semi-sane joke? He will remain radioactive and repulsive amongst his colleagues, even (especially) Republicans. If he sponsors a bill, no one else will want their name associated with it, no matter how good the policy might be. He will embarrass us regularly with all sorts of new “theories” or “misstatements.” He will be THE face of “Republicans” and “The Tea Party” for years to come in the MSM and in popular culture. He will prevent hundreds of thousands of otherwise persuadable new voters NOT to vote or register GOP (guys like him were why I thought I was a Democrat back in high school).

I’m a Nevadan. We saw how this show ends when they played it here in 2010.