Politics does, indeed, make for strange bedfellows. Repair-Man-Jack is more on-the-money on this one than not.

I am happy to support (the flawed) Mr. Akin.

The people of MIssouri will proudly support Todd Akin. He has served my district well for the last 12 yrs with conservative votes. MO voters don’t think we deserve better than Todd Akin because he is the best of the best. To bad you could not have wrote an article highlighting what a failure and criminal McCaskill is. I would have enjoyed your piece. Pure example of why conservative have a hard time winning. Not only do they have to fight the liberal they end up having to fight our own party. PATHETIC

A question from Ohio. We keep seeing the Sherrod Brown and McCaskill types saying that their opponents do not deserve to be Senators, and this meme gets picked up. What is the “special” status that give Brown and McCaskill such status in the eyes of their beholders? Frankly, I will take Josh Mandel any day of the week, warts and all, over the lying Sherrod Brown, because he has shown himself to be honest. I suspect the same thing is true of Todd Akin. Doesn’t honesty trump all of the “gravitas” of the incumbent Senator?

The United States Senate should be the GOP’s stronghold in the federal government because there are so many small states that are solidly GOP. Take a look at today’s RCP map, there’s 20 safe or likely Romney states and only 13 safe or likely Obama states. W carried 30+ states twice, and even John McCain carried 22 states. If we got similar results in the Senate we should have an almost permanent majority that frequently becomes filibuster proof.

The reason we don’t is because Democrats treat Senators as the largely partisan votes they are while Republicans seem easily swayed by taint in their candidates or supposed special merit in the Dems’. Obamacare passed because the GOP was unable to rally around scandal-tainted candidates like Stevens in Alaska or Burns in Montana. We need to rally around Akin despite his flaws just as the Dems are rallying around McCaskill despite hers.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: Todd Akin needs to win this race, and I’m so sad to see conservatives divided at all on this issue.There is NOTHING wrong with what Todd Akin said. On politics, maybe. But on substance, there was absolutely nothing wrong. What Todd Akin was saying, the famous “legitimate rape” line, was not that rape is legitimate, but that the government has defined rape so broadly that almost ANYTHING can be claimed as “rape” now. A woman has consensual sex with a man, and regrets it afterwards when she finds out she’s pregnant? It’s “rape”, and now she can claim it as such to get an abortion. Two high schoolers have consensual sex with eachother? It’s “rape” (or child rape), and now the female can claim it as such to get an abortion. Of course, by this ridiculous definition, almost 70% of this nation are child rapists, if you just look at the statistics on the number of people who have sex before graduating from high school.

Todd Akin was right on this issue. Claire Mccaskill is WRONG on ALL issues. End of story!

How many times have we heard the pejorative term “defective candidate” to refer to someone running for office? How wrong is this? The only use of this language referenced to “one of our own” is to provide intellectual cover for not supporting them.

Several large websites used “defective candidate” as a lead in for every post pertaining to Christine O’Donnell’s candidacy. And then, to add insult they continued with the latest witch or masturbation story. Both 20 year old stories. Not surprisingly, she lost. Sadly, she lost and more sadly we acquired a new socialist in the Senate.

No one in Missouri cares what I think about their Senate candidates but when Mr. Akin said what he said I hoped fervently he would be the bigger man and drop out. I was in favour of withholding funds to “encourage” him to do the right thing. Just for the record, he lost more points with me for staying in. It was selfish of him, and reflects poorly on him.

In the case of Christine O’Donnell, the Democrats and the Left threw the knives onto the table and conservatives and Republicans could not wait to use them on their own candidate, under the cover of “defective candidate.” In the case of Mr. Akin, he backed into his own knife.

In elections we can’t keep fighting the primary and we can’t keep eating our own. The primary is over, any chance of getting a new candidate in place of Mr. Akin is gone. The race is down to McCaskill and Akin. Is there any doubt as to which candidate is our and which is theirs? If the choice is between “corrupt” and “stupid,” stupid wins.

I tweeted this garbage until I read article in full. I wonder if this author is a closet demoRAT. I immediately canceled tweet. Don’t know what has happened to redstate by will not be coming to this site very often.

Amen! At this point in the game, bashing Akin is akin(haha) to endorsing Obamacare. We need that seat, and Akin’s vote for full repeal.