Akin still in race; McCaskill ready to pounce?
Yael T. AbouhalkahDefying a lot of skeptics, Todd Akin is still in the U.S. Senate race as of Monday, just eight days before the official deadline in Missouri for pulling out of his contest against incumbent Claire McCaskill.
Akin, by the way, doesn’t sound like someone ready to quit just because all the GOP-powers-that-be have told him to leave. Akin keeps saying, as in this good National Journal article, that he believes God will see him through.
Meanwhile, McCaskill supporters are licking their chops, waiting for the Sept. 25 deadline to pass.
After that, they say, she’s going to be able to unleash holy heck upon Akin in the form of destructive commercials attacking his ultra-conservative views on all sorts of issues.
Then again, McCaskill probably should go ahead and start doing that right now. Akin doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.
So the sooner McCaskill and the Democrats ramp up their attacks against him, the better it might be for them when it comes time to vote in November.
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months agoAll any thinking person needs to know about air claire: zero’care=YES, porkulus bill=YES, debt ceiling extensions=YES
air claire, not representing MO, but being very important to jimmy II.
Johnathon Busby
8 months agoAll and any thinking persons should probably avoid voting for an ignorant, arrogant person like Akin. Remember, there’s politics you don’t care for, and there’s the ignorance of an eight year old, which is what Akin has demonstrated. He denies rational thought and science, and has the audacity to be proud of his flabbergasting and astonishing lack of education. It’s a thousand times to have an intellectual child like Akin with authority than Claire, no matter if you don’t like her politics.
Matt McKinley
8 months agoAre the enlighten & nuanced persons that will vote for Claire be the same ones that voted a dead man into office a few years back here in Missouri?
Kent Mueller
8 months agoJohnathon, here is another way to look at it. I do not support Akin and in fact I never have. But what you call “politics” is a pretty important thing.
If Akin is elected, he won’t be able to implement anything that remotely has to do with his misguided thoughts on science and abortion. I don’t agree with him, but he won’t be dangerous, because his ideas won’t get legislated.
However, on other important areas that you call “politics”, I’m sure he won’t vote for spending almost a trillion dollars on failed Keynesian spending. Especially, when much of the spending wasn’t targeted for economic results, but rather to get money to areas of supporters that they couldnt otherwise. Cleavers green area comes to mind.
We can also be assured that Akin will be in favor or reigning in the EPA, which is regulating where Obama couldn’t legislate. He will also vote in favor of market based solutions to our definite health care problems. And he would never, as McCaskill did, be in favor of the administration circumventing long standing bankruptcy law to tell legally secured bondholders to go to hell and then give the second highest ownership of GM and Chrysler to the freaking unions who were very material in making them so noncompetitive that they went bankrupt.
Need I go on?
Mark Hastert
8 months agoAikin has a loyal constituency and beliefs that transcend party politics. Not to trivialize but he believes he’s on a mission from God. Why would he quit?
” I don’t agree with him, but he won’t be dangerous, because his ideas won’t get legislated”
I have to disagree with you on that Kent…there are lots of like minded Aikns types in the house. They put him on the SCIENCE committee.
Kent Mueller
8 months agoMark, you should know that means nothing.
After all, Maxine Waters is on the House Committee on Financial Services. She remains their even though she is under ethics investigation pertaining to he giving special favors to a bank where her husband is a shareholder and was on the board.
Also, Emanuel Cleaver is on that same Financial Services Committee. What do you think, Mark? …..he provides the SBA loan expertise?
Need I continue with examples of absurd committee assignments?