tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post5382077232738500092..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: Taking an about face on Todd Akin without changing direction - Fight!Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-73565551500326362422012-08-23T10:19:04.137-05:002012-08-23T10:19:04.137-05:00Your words on the flood are apt. We need to stop ...Your words on the flood are apt. We need to stop looking at this in terms of winning the Senate with one seat. We need to look at this as getting as many as 55 or 57 seats this election,a another 5-10 next election (take a look at how favorable it is for Republicans).<br /><br />2010-2014 should have been a sustained campaign to take the White House and 60 or more Republican Senate seats. Our current leadership can't see it, and fears it. With 60, they would be tasked with rolling back Leviathan before the crest. <br /><br />But saving the Republic takes a flood, leading on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Jim Durbinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-43974146842041253832012-08-23T10:08:23.966-05:002012-08-23T10:08:23.966-05:00Amid growing pressure from the Missouri GOP for To...Amid growing pressure from the Missouri GOP for Todd Akin to drop out of the U.S. Senate race, conservatives have found themselves increasingly in favor of a candidate swap but haven’t quite reached a consensus as to who Akin’s replacement should be. That may be about to change. There’s a groundswell underway to draft former U.S. ambassador Ann Wagner for a senate run. Wagner is currently running for Akin’s congressional seat, and conservatives are thinking that if Akin bows out and switches places with Wagner, he can go back to representing his congressional district relatively easily.<br /><br />Amid growing pressure from the Missouri GOP for Todd Akin to drop out of the U.S. Senate race, conservatives have found themselves increasingly in favor of a candidate swap but haven’t quite reached a consensus as to who Akin’s replacement should be. That may be about to change. There’s a groundswell underway to draft former U.S. ambassador Ann Wagner for a senate run. Wagner is currently running for Akin’s congressional seat, and conservatives are thinking that if Akin bows out and switches places with Wagner, he can go back to representing his congressional district relatively easily.<br /><br />Breitbart.com’s Ben Shapiro notes that the switch is definitely doable:<br /><br /> benshapiro<br /><br /> There is a legit legal loophole in MO that would allow Todd Akin to switch ballot slots with his district Congress candidate, Ann Wagner.<br /><br />http://twitchy.com/2012/08/22/missouri-national-conservatives-rally...freespeakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484071124659559646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-67811036037462232022012-08-23T08:33:41.406-05:002012-08-23T08:33:41.406-05:00My problem with Aikin all along (and why I did not...My problem with Aikin all along (and why I did not vote for him in the primary) is his passiveness. He's a hangback, not a fighter. He votes right because he is in a safe seat, but he has never had to take the fight to the enemy. He's in the pro-life, conservative echo chamber and can't understand why his idiotic statements are not understood. A damn shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-67583306725137679522012-08-22T12:50:19.334-05:002012-08-22T12:50:19.334-05:00(double argghh) "no shooting NO running"...(double argghh) "no shooting NO running"Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-67093604644599794602012-08-22T12:49:00.792-05:002012-08-22T12:49:00.792-05:00Hi Joan. What a mess, eh?
I hear ya on #1 & #...Hi Joan. What a mess, eh?<br /><br />I hear ya on #1 & #2, but Akin was the best of the available bunch & regardless, he won the election.<br /><br />#3 - I thought he could have dealt with this & advanced beyond it, almost with ease, <i>if</i> he attacked the actual target, but he didn't. He played the part the media had prepared for him, and the part the GOP establishment believes is more important than the principles it supposedly upholds.<br /><br />So what now? I don't know. It's in his court, and so far he's only dribbling in pace, no shooting to running not even passing.<br /><br />Argghh!Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-27388625072345872012012-08-22T09:59:25.351-05:002012-08-22T09:59:25.351-05:00I have several feints of feeling about this:
1. O...I have several feints of feeling about this:<br /><br />1. Old white dudes in GOP have been killing the GOP for about 4 decades. We're better off w/o them.<br />2. I have heard the exact same mythical statement come from zealous pro-lifers in Protestant churches over the last 30 years. That should be amended by the pro-lifers in haste. A letter to every well-meaning but uneducated mouthpiece in Christian circles. Now.<br />3. If the man proves his moxie and mettle and wins in spite of it all, he'll be feted and celebrated by the Right and become the poster boy for a renewed sense that the Right should not keep shooting their wounded.Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.com