Who's the real dog in Akin-McCaskill race?
Yael T. AbouhalkahIn an odd remark over the weekend and a more irritating (and ugly) one on Monday, Todd Akin’s campaign has compared Claire McCaskill to a dog.
As such, Akin’s mouth is the gift that keeps giving in the U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri.
First, Akin implied that McCaskill is a dog, as their race goes down to the final two weeks.
The newsy Akin remarks, as reported by PoliticMo, at a Saturday fundraiser:
“She goes to Washington, D.C., it’s a little bit like one of those dogs, you know, ‘fetch.’ She goes to Washington, D.C., and gets all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies, and she brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri.”
This from the same guy whose “legitimate rape” remarks in August cost him the support of the Republican establishment.
Then, on Monday, an Akin consultant tweeted this:
If Claire McCaskill were a dog, she’d be a “Bullshitsu”
Someone needs to point out to Akin and his backers that comparing a woman to a dog isn’t a good idea, even in a political campaign.
Finally, on Sunday McCaskill got some encouraging news when the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling showed McCaskill with a steady 46-40 percent lead over Akin.
Still, I have a few questions for Missourians regarding which situation is more embarrassing for this state:
That McCaskill can’t even get to 50 percent against this guy?
Or that Akin still has a chance of getting 40 percent or more of the vote on Nov. 6?
George Hunsucker
Northland
7 months agoAre you going to post anything on air claire’s husband soliciting business in the Senate Dining room YT?
air claire: porkulus=yes, 0’care=yes, debt ceiling expansions=yes, Supreme Court nominees=yes, votes with the big 0 95% of the time, MO values=NO.
“I have no better friend in the Senate then Claire”—jimmy II.
Johnathon Busby
7 months agoFacts, debate performance, qualification, or education will not be the criteria used to determine the outcome of the Akin race. He’s shown he has little grasp of facts, little ability to perform (in a debate or otherwise), and he’s not qualified or educated enough to hold a GED (based on his answers to simple biology questions).
It comes down to one very simple question; how many people in Mo are willing to sell their souls to spite anyone/anything who had anything to do with Obama. How many people in Mo resent Obama’s effort to insure the uninsured so very much they will deliberately elect a man like Akin, who treats rape victims with as much suspicion as their rapist. One party promised to do everything to make Obama a one term president, and they’ve been willing to harm everyone and everything around them to make it happen. Not just the president, but anyone who dared to (gasp) support their president.
Obamacare was a pile of good intentions, if poorly executed. That said, what’s the GOP alternative plan for insuring the uninsured? A serious one, not a half-baked attempt no one ever thought would pass and be signed.
Akin’s consistent failures are why Claire ran ads about Akin being “too conservative for Missouri” as “attack ads”. Because she was smart enough to know that Akin is the only person ignorant enough to lose to her. She succeeded in choosing her own opponent; smart, clever, slick (if still slimy). I’ll take the clever politician over the mental-child Akin.
Most recent issue, Akin now shows himself to completely lack class. Out maneuvered in debate (not shocking given his ignorance) he resorted to petty insults, of the sort I more expect to see here on the forums. Ignorant, classless, a denier of science, and a crusader against truth, Akin represents the socially conservative movement to at. In the end they don’t believe there is such a thing as a justified abortion, and they willingly, eagerly embrace junk science to reinforce their confirmation bias.
Mark Hastert
7 months agoTodd’s an old fashioned Bible thumping, women’s place is in the home sort of guy. Being beaten by some woman lib is chafing. Fortunately his base of support is shrinking through attrition but they aren’t going quietly.In four years they’ll be dinosaurs.
Stephen Platt
7 months agoMaybe Akin saw the latest tacky merchandise offer from the Obama campaign. Everything’s on sale at 30%. That makes the Obama dog leash only $10.50 and includes shipping. Sku A0917. The leash is imprinted “2012 Barack’s Best Friend”
Obama’s campaign would like to sell you lots of “stuff”
Aimee Patton
Overland Park
7 months agoIt’s times like these when I would love the Akin campaign to remind me how they stand for Christian values.
Phil Cardarella
7 months agoOK, fun as it is to pick on Akin, this is not much.
That having been said, do you think that if enough of us Dems collected the money for his plane, we could get Mitt to stop in Missouri for a photo op with Todd? Then Missouri (and half a dozen other pinkish Red States) would suddenly be Swing States!
George Hunsucker
Northland
7 months agoNo need to stop in MO phil, it is a lock for Romney!!!!!!
Johnathon Busby
7 months agoTrue, George. But if Romney gave Akin a solid hug on stage, it might push some of those swing states more Obama’s direction.
You know, the states that actually decide elections. Like Iowa and Ohio. The fact that Obama will lose in Mo and Ks is all but predetermined. That’s just the nature of politics in these states.
Which makes one wonder why people were trying to keep him off the ballet in Ks a month back or so… not like he has a snowball’s chance in Ks anyway.