Midwest Voices

Yael T. Abouhalkah

The Kansas City Star

Republican Rep. Todd Akin is getting the good news/bad news treatment these days.

On Monday, former U.S. House member and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was in Kirkwood, stumping for Akin in his U.S. Senate race against Claire McCaskill.

Yes, having Gingrich in your corner counts as the good news for Akin, at least as far as he sees it.

“This is an act of conscience on my part _ I didn’t like seeking a guy getting beaten up by the power structure,” Gingrich said, referring to top GOP officials’ statements that they won’t help Akin win the race.

But also Monday, McCaskill’s forces released an online ad attacking Akin’s supposed flip-flop on earmarks last week, all to get potential access to more campaign funds.

And Akin didn’t get much love from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday.

“We’re not going to play in Missouri with Todd Akin, I can tell you that,” Priebus said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Akin faces a Tuesday deadline to get out of the race, but he’s clearly not going to do that.

So be prepared to read a lot more about this race, as McCaskill unleashes more ads aimed at Akin’s extremist views.

Comments

1. 

   Mark Hastert

   7 months, 3 weeks ago

   …no but it’s extreme to deny women their right to choice. It’s extreme to deny emergency contraception after rape or incest. It’s extreme to deny food to hungry children. It’s extreme to oppose student loans so we can have an educated well prepared work force. It’s extreme to strip Federal programs for the middle class and poor citizens in favor of tax cuts for the wealthiest.

   His views, and in particular what he would do as a Senator with those views, are fringe. His comments about rape were merely a window into his extreme ideology.

2. 

   George Hunsucker

   Northland

   7 months, 3 weeks ago

   air claire porkuls=YES, zerocare=YES, debt limit expansion=YES, Supreme Court nominees=YES.

   Seems pretty “extreme” for a MO Senator to be voting this way, but I am THANKFULLY not a smart lib!

3. 

   George Hunsucker

   Northland

   7 months, 3 weeks ago

   Another view of Romney vs. “I have no better friend then air cliare”, and “God bless America but GD America” obama…. Interesting differences in the two’s religious practices…..

   http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7405692n&tag=api

4. 

   Mark Hastert

   7 months, 3 weeks ago

   David Brooks has a very good essay in today’s NYT describing the split personality of conservatism. Give us the kind he’d describing and we’ll see a new Republican party and a Renaissance in cooperative governance

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