Point - Counterpoint. Should Akin quit or stay in the race?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Akin, stay

Todd Akin is the GOP’s punishment for catering to the radical fringe. His far-out positions were a matter of public record long before he made his asinine remarks Sunday about rapes rarely resulting in pregnancies because a woman’s system “shuts down.” But Akin’s opponents in Missouri’s Republican U.S. Senate primary weren’t going to expose him, because they wanted the kind of voters he appeals to.

Claire McCaskill, the Democratic incumbent, understood what an Akin nomination would mean. She took advantage of the GOP’s dysfunctional dynamics by running an ad promoting Akin as the most conservative candidate in the Republican field.

So now the state and national Republican establishment has turned on Akin. No money, no superPAC assistance, no nothing, he’s being told. Hit the road.

And if he does, then what? Missouri will have a Senate candidate handpicked by party insiders, not by a vote of the people. A do-over candidate. It doesn’t seem very populist, does it?

Akin just tweeted that he’s in to stay. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. The time from now until 5 p.m. Tuesday — his deadline to pull out of the race — is an eternity. But make no mistake, the Republican establishment deserves Todd Akin.


Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/gop-deserves-todd-akin/#storylink=cpy

Akin, resign

If Todd Akin had any Teflon, it’s gone now. In a weekend TV interview in St. Louis, he suggested there’s a kind of taxonomy of rape, that some rapes were more “legitimate” than others. And he claimed women in such cases had an ability to self-abort.

“If it’s a legitimate rape,” he said, “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

He’s tried to walk this back in subsequent statements, but sorry, it’s Gorilla-glued on. He’ll always be the guy who said he believes a woman has some (mystical?) ability to thwart conception if she’s been raped, legitimately, of course. What he won’t be is a U.S. senator.

It’s a nightmare for the Republican Party, which had seen the Missouri seat as a relatively easy takeaway, given the high negatives of incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill.

Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/akin-resign/#storylink=cpy

[Panasonic]

1. I am of the view that Todd Akin should stay

as it is the voter's intent, as stated by law.

RESPECT THE LAW.

An Akin Republican can very easily sue the Republican Party for changing voter's intent AFTER the primaries were complete.

Todd Akin has no other choice but to remain on the ballot.

Any other alternate will simply mean a write-off, and has-been Republicans will be offered and rejected by the tea party but accepted by a smaller amount of moderates.

There was a three way primary - and Akin only won with 36% of the vote. Remember that.

[uponit7771]

2. Wait 2 more weeks to quit only after a 5 day add buy tying Ryan to Akins tight

[customerserviceguy]

3. Stay in

Get his ass kicked hard by Claire McCaskill.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. "Shana, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash."