McCaskill dumps on Akin Tuesday night
Yael T. AbouhalkahU.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill got another taste of national publicity Tuesday night, going on for a friendly Q &A with Lawrence O’Donnell of “The Last Word” on lib-loving MSNBC.
O’Donnell billed it an an “exclusive” interview, but McCaskill didn’t say much of anything new, at least for people who have been closely watching her race here in Missouri.
But it’s good for the rest of the nation to hear about McCaskill’s race against Republican Todd Akin - especially on the final day he could have pulled out of the contest but didn’t.
McCaskill got to see her new ad - which rips Akin - played on national TV.
And she talked about the “Republicans for Claire” group that will be supporting her before the Nov. 6 election.
Speaking of Republicans, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt reversed course Tuesday night and endorsed Akin. The statement came weeks after Blunt, along with other top national and Missouri Republicans, had asked him to get out of the campaign.
When O’Donnell asked about Akin as an opponent, McCaskill said she wasn’t going to underestimate him because he has plenty of dedicated supporters in the homeschooled movement and on the evangelical right.
As McCaskill said, “it’s not what Akin says, it’s what he believes,” not only when it comes to his extreme views on abortion but also on school lunches, Medicare and Social Security.
But as I continue to say, McCaskill’s supporters better not take her opponent lightly. Akin has done well in recent polls, far better than many people would have thought.
Mark Hastert
8 months, 3 weeks agoAkin’s mortal sin was exposing the extremist wing of the Republican party. Now Roy Blunt has cosigned for him. The more Missourian’s know them the more they will be shocked and repelled by them.
Reginald Thornton
8 months, 3 weeks agoWhat a disgusting, ignorant comment made by Akin. Sigh. It could be worse. He could be chating on his taxes, backing Obama and ushering in bigger government with higher taxes and more regulation.
Linda Shumate
8 months, 3 weeks agoOf course Roy Blunt is going to back Akin, as will all the other Republicans that jumped ship temporarily. This isn’t a surprise at all.
The Republicans, aka Teapublicans, want to take our country back. I previously thought it was back to the early ‘60s, before Civil Rights legislation. You know, back when a black man couldn’t have been elected as president.
Now, I think the Teapublicans want to take us back to the ‘50s and the Ozzie & Harriett era, before women gained many rights and before the pill. You know, back in the day when wives were supposed to be bare foot, pregnant and never express an opinion.
I’m volunteering, and I will continue to volunteer, for Sen. McCaskill until 7:00 PM on Nov. 6. We need this strong, sensible, woman to continue as our Senator. We don’t need an out-of-touch, extreme, radical right-wing man to be elected our Senator. We currently have one and we don’t need two.
I am woman, watch me vote.
Every woman, and every man who cares about a woman, the elderly and children, should vote for Claire McCaskill.
I want our country to move forward not backward.
Johnathon Busby
8 months, 3 weeks agoA person who believes women’s bodies possess a magic to fend off pregnancy from rape, who demonstrates a level of knowledge inferior to what I would expect from a high school graduate, is never the lesser of two evils. Ignorance is the greatest of all evils. The people perish, for want of knowledge, to paraphrase.
There is nothing more evil than an ignorant person possessed of a sanctimonious, religiously driven ideology that they would subject everyone to (even as they clam to support small government, and a minimum of government interference). Akin is a low creature, a hypocrite of the first order
Reginald Thornton
8 months, 3 weeks agoAre you sure, Johnathon? “There is nothing more evil”? Nothing? Not even an entire movement of people that seeks actively to demonize other people that genuinely believe an unborn fetus is already a human being, and that aborting it equates to killing it? What could be more evil than that. Other than, actually killing it.
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 3 weeks agoLet’s see, did all you libs support I did not have sex with that woman slick Willie???? I guess it is more of an affront to you libs Akin’s WORDS rather then Willie’s actual oral sex. Once more, I don’t understand the lib mind!!!!
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 3 weeks agoSo, what is your opinion of Bill Clinton johnathon and his getting serviced by”that woman, Ms Lewinsky”??????
Reginald Thornton
8 months, 3 weeks agoGreat point, bringing up the finger wagger in chief. He famously said, “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”. Well, it also depends on what the meaning of “legitimate” is. Akin was referring to forcible, as opposed to statutory. Akin probably didn’t want to paint an ugly image, so he spoke in terms of the definition and not of its actions.
Mark Hastert
8 months, 3 weeks agoLeave it to the Cons to obfuscate when they’ve nothing on point to say. Akin and his supporters are so far to the right that nearly everybody is to their left. That’s why their brand of conservatism will shrink back into the backwaters. Romney is going to lose because he had to take far right positions to make it through the primaries and now can’t “shake the etch-a-sketch”. He and Ryan (and those like Akin) will drag the down-ticket races with them.
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 3 weeks agoAnxiously awaiting your answer Johnthon..lcat got your tongue??????….
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 3 weeks agoR’s are realizing Akin is vastly SUPERIOR to non-Missourian air claire….
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 3 weeks agoR’s are realizing Akin is vastly SUPERIOR to non-Missourian air claire….
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 3 weeks agothe link…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/27/return-todd-akin-republicans-offer-support-to-embattled-candidate/?test=latestnews