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

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?

he still has over an hour 'til deadline

god there must be some crazy screamo phonecalls going on right now

I can imagine Akin just turning his phone off and going out back to pray for a bit before kicking back in a hammock.

"HE ACTUALLY STANDS BY WHAT HE SAID WHAT THE HELL DO I DO MITT!"

yeah pretty obvious dude is not gonna withdraw, not when he's clearly got a chance at winning

"Polls are good, I got my support, the Lord said so. Who are you, anyway?"

Wouldn't surprise me at all if he withdraws, who the hell knows.

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

I think he would technically have to sue to get his name off the ballot, which the Dems would contest

100 bucks says he wins and the human slime who are still proudly backing him will chalk it up as another win against 'radical feminism' and squishy beltway RINOs

Allahpundit, the only one of the hotair.com bozos with a brain stem (also an open atheist, which drives a slew of the commenters up a wall), has some fun:

He can still quit after today’s deadline passes, but to do so he’ll need a court order. Can he get one? As Nate Silver notes, four of the six justices of the Missouri Supreme Court are Democratic appointees, and Akin has no stronger supporters in America right now when it comes to staying on the ballot than Democrats. Meanwhile, if Priebus and Cornyn are serious about withholding money from this guy in the assurance that conservatives will blame Akin for the eventual loss, not them, I think they’re kidding themselves. Once it’s clear that he’s in the race to the bitter end, the calculus among many of his critics will shift from “he’s a moron” to “he’s a moron but he’s our moron,” such that if the RNC and NRSC cut him off, the dreaded Beltway RINO establishment will be blamed for not having done everything they could to make the best of a bad hand. (That would be less likely if McCaskill utterly crushed him on election day, but she’s sufficiently weak that she probably won’t win by more than four or five points. He’ll be competitive, sort of, down the stretch.) Never mind that the money they save might prove critically useful elsewhere; once Akin proves he’s a “fighter,” willing to tell both Democrats and Republicans to go to hell, that’ll earn him a certain base of populist support that will demand financial support from GOP treasurers on his behalf. And if they don’t provide it, they’ll be scapegoated, not him.

seems like a reasonable assessment

Rush, Mitt, now Walker:

Governor Scott Walker released the following statement today calling on U.S. Representative Todd Akin (R-MO) to remove himself from his U.S. Senate bid to unseat Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO).

“Representative Todd Akin’s comments were ignorant at best and completely outrageous. For the good of his state and for the good of his party, he should step aside immediately and allow someone else to run.”

Who's left, anyway?

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??'

― j., Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:53 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya someone needs to asks these drips what the other types of rape are

important question: what do rush, hannity and michael savage think about this? i'm going to visit my dad in a few weeks, and if i had to guess, he's going to be defending Akin because he opposes abortion so vehemently (once, in colorado, we strayed a few feet off of a mountain trail in colorado, onto some moss. a woman in a passing car yelled at us "stay on the trail!" because, understandably, there are signs instructing tourists to stay on the trail to keep the environment as pristine as possible. my dad's face turned beet red, and then he yelled "THAT'S the kind of person who gets an abortion!!!!"). at the same time, though, he believes whatever rush et al tell him to believe, so are they on the side of those condemning akin (somehow can't see rush doing that) or are they staying quiet until they can criticize liberals for making a big deal out of it?

Hannity told him to quit, I thought...?

hannity is literally, as we post, begging akin to drop out on his radio show

fwiw my moneys on mccaskill to retain her seat, the race was p close already, national firestorm should put her over the top

Rush pretty much went "damned hypocritical Democrats" but then proceeded to tear Akin a new one; Hannity's been vaguely calmer but saying "PLEASE GO." He's apparently talking with Akin now on his radio show and Akin's still going "Nope, staying in."

Limbaugh: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/rush-limbaugh-todd-akin-rape-stupid_n_1819449.html?utm_hp_ref=media

Z S, I am boggling at that story. Women who shout things out of car windows = the type of women who get abortions?

women who drive cars, presumably

think that's expressly forbidden in Leviticus somewhere

weirdest claim tho is is rep king (r) saying hes never heard of pregnancies from statutory rape, v curious to learn what the contraceptive mechanism is there

I had a comment but it was too awful, so I am keeping it to myself

i will keep my guess to myself too

self-edit hi 5

lol

Car window thing is just liberals telling everyone what to think, "Stay on the trail" is code for Big Government telling you what to eat and stuff.

Of course conservatives would never use the government to tell us how to run our lives...

xposts

i was a bit confused, too, but then i tried to understand it in the context of the my dad's Sphere of Evil Things and People. someone who tells you to stay on the trail is an environmentalist (worshipping blasphemous mother nature above god, who is white and loving and totally ripped), is politically correct (that's a bad thing), doesn't understand that in the old days people would just walk around whatever and no one told them what to do, probably wants government to tell everyone what to do and is unwittingly (or purposefully?!?!) supporting satan's mission to create a one-world government with a single currency and embedded chips in everyone's necks (the sign of the beast!!). all of these things are liberal - just like getting an abortion.

poor libtards never to know the joy of standing on some soft springy moss

it could be tho that the woman in the car was a fellow warrior urging yr dad to 'stay on the trail' of righteousness

or maybe theres a bear who eats people who walk off the trail theres no way to know

the trail could lead to an abortion clinic

I am going to be furious if I even spot Huckabee at the convention, let alone be given a speaking role. Cancel his hotel room this afternoon.

matthew8787 on August 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM

Roffle:

Todd Akin on Tuesday took aim at Mitt Romney for calling on the Missouri Senate candidate to drop out of the race, saying that Romney made a bigger deal out of his comments than he needed to.

"Don't you think Romney made a bigger deal of this than he needed to?" Akin asked Sean Hannity on his radio show. "Why couldn't he run his race, and I'll run mine?"

knives out, motherfuckers!

really this is a glory to behold

Meanwhile there's Wyoming senate primaries today? Who knew?

Anyway, deadline passed, Akin didn't budge

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/24373155.jpg

Dana Loesch, she is sad. And hates you all.

http://jezebel.com/5936611/the-doctor-who-taught-todd-akin-all-about-legitimate-rape-is-a-real-guy-and-hes-crazy

Haha I was right!:

As the minutes ticked down to the 5 p.m. CT deadline for Todd Akin to drop out of the Senate race, the congressman was not taking calls from members of his party asking him to step down, multiple GOP sources in Missouri tell TPM.

"Numerous state lawmakers have personally called Todd Akin and Perry [Akin's son and campaign manager] … they are not answering the phone," one Republican told TPM.

[Akin's son and campaign manager]

*dr pepper all over keyboard*

oh Jezebel

But there's one issue on which Dr. Willke and I agree — we both think Todd Akin should stick with his campaign for Senate, carry that thing until the bitter end. Even though we know his campaign has a fatal defect and likely won't survive.