the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

Missourians now have 11 weeks to forget this happened and vote him on to victory. It'll probably happen, too.

Comment roffles:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/21/breaking-akin-tells-huckabee-hes-staying-in-the-race/

Looks like it’s time to look at the libertarian candidate, as well as potential write-ins and independents.

Doomberg on August 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM

The Libertarian is a dope-growing hippie who has a fairly lengthy arrest record in KS and MO.

steebo77 on August 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way

What's "personal" -- taking your raped wife out back and showing you her womb?

man, I hope Akin stays in the race. Please please please.

he's staying!

Akin: "I misspoke one word in one sentence on one day."

can someone please drop this man into a tank of warm vomit

the internet has not yet produced an akin deal with it gif

give it about 20 minutes

I love that he thinks that if he just reworded his statement, his whole magic uterus theory would have been widely accepted

also you should all be happy I'm not modding because the temptation to create a substitute on "Akin" that embeds the music video for "Invisible" is overwhelming

Messages in Missouri
By Ramesh Ponnuru
August 21, 2012 1:24 P.M.
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Every living Republican who has served as a Senator from Missouri to Akin: Get out.

Akin to Mike Huckabee: I’m staying in.

Congressman, pride is a sin.

"and if i offended anyone with my comments.... dealwithit.gif"

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wtf is king getting at with that mealy-mouthed statement? he wasn't paying attention to the news when jaycee dugard and her two daughters were found?

credit to him if he wasn't tbh

^^ not sure what you mean by this?

oh i just hate crazy weirdo fake-news stuff like that

missing white women!! sex crime!! dead children!!

Well, there's a kernel of newsworthiness in all of those things, but it takes 0.052 seconds for every one of these stories to become sensationalized.

guys can i ask that, given the topic at hand (repub war on woman and crazy magical thinking about rape and pregnancy), you don't act flippant about a story involving actual child rape and pregnancy? it's been a shitty couple of days to be a woman and i can acknowledge that stories get sensationalized but jesus let's not overlook the forest for the trees

I am genuinely surprised the GOP turned on Akin so quickly and forcefully. must be panicking about their "woman problem" lol

Every living Republican who has served as a Senator from Missouri

lol how many people is this, four? five?

john danforth, 1936-
john ashcroft, 1942-
roy blunt, 1950-
jim talent, 1956-
kit bond, 1939-

I am genuinely surprised the GOP turned on Akin so quickly and forcefully. must be panicking about their "woman problem" lol

Well yeah. This is pretty high on the list of things they don't want to be talking about the week before the convention. (Speaking of which, I wonder if Akin's going.)

"This" being, basically, "How pro-rape is the Republican party?"

they are forcibly pro-rape iirc

Legitimately so.

luckily American women have ways to shut that whole thing down

i think maybe ridicule of people who say 'forcible rape' would be better if they were asked not about 'consensual rape', but 'gentle rape'.

'so wait you think there's such a thing as GENTLE rape??'

What was it, some GOP went on about how extensively violent a rape had to be a couple years back before he'd think an abortion was valid.

not googling "GOP rape" sorry

http://www.salon.com/2006/03/08/bill_napoli/

emblematic of how this is standard MO for GOP, they're only sacrificing Akin cuz they're worried about nat'l electoral prospects at the moment

hilarious that this is what will send McCaskill back to the senate tho

Ding ding ding that's it

yeah well idk about that. mccaskill could still lose. they all have weeks to 'come around' on him.

oh come on, dude is gonna be broke and have no one to help him with his campaign, he's fucked

Money could creep back if the polls are still even.

what can i say, i'm a pessimist. i expect this to move the needle in MO only a little, and temporarily. and i expect that by the beginning of october much of the institutional GOP 'quietly' begins doing what it can to elect him.

He's a grenade with the pin out to the party outside MO, that's going to have to be some stealth money. But thanks to Citizens United...

if he wins it'll be a triumph for his kind of pathology.

has his polling tanked in MO? I haven't even checked. My impression was that prior to this the race was quite close, which was what made me assume that an incident like this would effectively tip it in McCaskill's favor

With an eye on the clock:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mitt-romney-calls-on-todd-akin-to-quit

I would expect that while GOP resources supporting Akin will dwindle, McCaskill can expect a corresponding influx of support from Dem sources that would allow her to secure her win... but I'm just speculating

Before his enormous boner, he was up by 9 points! I haven't seen anything since Sunday.

Yes, I said enormous boner.

so what happens/happened if he didn't resign in time for the deadline? his name stays on the ballot?

pretty sure that according to MO law, "shit gets real"

and can't republican party withdraw their support of him or are they contracted to him somehow?

wow he's still leading in the polls

okay maybe I spoke too soon

Party support or no, he'd be on the ballot. They've already said they're not spending a dime on him. He'd have to go to court to have himself removed, but that doesn't mean another Rep. candidate would replace him. Or that the court would grant his request.

their "woman problem"

Ie, the fact that those pesky women consider all rape "legitimate," "forcible" or no.

How much blowback has there been on Ryan yet, if any?