RINOs like Coulter, Levin, Hannity, and Malkin are saying get out. But apparently Akin wants to stay in — showing the same good judgment that led him to make that rape comment.
Hey, it’s just the Senate.
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Patterico (83033d) — 8/20/2012 @ 6:31 pmis he mentally ill?
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/20/2012 @ 6:38 pmMr. Feets–I know you are a very big fan of George Soros. Have you seen the New Yorker article that says Mr. S. feels hurt and is disappointed both politically and personally by President Obama? Apparently the One just can’t please some people no matter how onederful he is!
elissa (a7e26c) — 8/20/2012 @ 6:51 pmoops! I mistakenly first posted this on the wrong thread.
Mr. Feets–I know you are a very big fan of George Soros. Have you seen the New Yorker article that says Mr. S. feels hurt and is disappointed both politically and personally by President Obama? Apparently the One just can’t please some people no matter how onederful he is
elissa (a7e26c) — 8/20/2012 @ 6:54 pmoh hi I accidentally answered in the wrong thread too
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:13 pmI don’t think Mr Akin has really thought this through yet.
JD (746d0b) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:15 pmit’s just so embarrassing to have someone like him in America
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:18 pmfeets
watch him win anyway.
let claire spout money for 30 days and remember – he was just protecting babies eventually – thats going to sink in
EPWJ (8a4ca7) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:25 pmWhat’s the value of primaries if people can drop out so easily? There’s been too much of this in recent years. Ever since about 2002, when Andrew Cuomo dropped out of the primary before the primary for Governor of New York, and Robert Torricelli quit running for re-election as Senator from New Jersey after it was too late to qut
It’s not like he fooled the voters about anything. It’s not even like the issue matters.
Should decisions be made in closed rooms? And if they are are they going to be good decisions?
A candidate dropping out is how Obama got elected to the United States Senate.
I didn’t like it even when Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:27 pmIf we can do this well, maybe you know someone could change the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:28 pmhe’s of poor character and wholly unfit to serve as even a US senator
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:30 pmWell what do you think Akin’s advisers are telling him? They have a conflict of interest.
Dustin (73fead) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:33 pmHe should walk a mile in Elizabeth Warren’s moccasins and stay in the race.
Pinandpuller (a12946) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:37 pm6. Agreed, sleep on it dumbsh*t.
I memember one of his endorsers after she finshed last in her state of birth, saying she was in ’til the end. Next AM, “nevermind”.
Now he could be certifiably stupid, there’s more evidence for that than Trende’s list of boat anchors, some of which escaped, being fished out by frustrated voters.
But no monies, Hannity and Krautscheisster and the Blond Plastique Rack flipping him off, will chase the Sandman tonight.
Would help to come home to a dark, empty house, Mrs. Akin?
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:38 pm3, 4. Eff Soros, OK Dems are behind Ogabe 55%, Romany 30%, 15% ‘Do I have to answer?’
Akin may hose MO, but GOP kinda booted that one anyway–9 opponents wanting McCaskill’s meal ticket?
Party discipline.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:46 pmHere is how the press works on this:
Politico article I: How McCaskill supports Akin’s decision to stay in.
No mention is made, whatsoever, of the previously reported (also on Politco): McCaskill gets her opponent — how the McCaskill campaign engineered the Akin win.
It’s bad enough when reporters claim inadvertent bias, but when they are participating in bald-faced
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:50 pmlies, they out to get fired. But won’t.Akin needs to pack it in. He is an idiot if he does not realize that this is a dangerous election cycle, and any distraction could give Team Obama an opportunity to win in ways they don’t deserve. Hey moron – give up!
power to the people (44e232) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:50 pmhe’s of poor character and wholly unfit to serve as even a US senator
Senator Blutarski would agree.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:53 pmWell what do you think Akin’s advisers are telling him?
Dustin,
Considering that he knew before the primary that McCaskill was backing him for the nomination, I don’t believe Akin’s folks think at all. Assuming he has advisers and isn’t just asking God to send him instructions.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:55 pmHe’ll drop it out if it’s made worth his while.
If anybody thinks the essential nature of a politician is not self-interest, self-centeredness, and selfishness, I have this bridge in Brooklyn for a very good price.
Hi, Leviticus.
nk (875f57) — 8/20/2012 @ 7:59 pmGet out of the race, Akin.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:01 pmIf Akin’s staff wants a future in MO politics, they will resign tomorrow, preferably before noon. It’s apparently an important deadline for replacing the candidate.
Daryl Herbert (47edb4) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:05 pmThe GOP’s big boys are going to make Akin an offer he can’t refuse.
ropelight (29a1d8) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:24 pmIf anybody thinks the essential nature of a politician is not self-interest, self-centeredness, and selfishness, I have this bridge in Brooklyn for a very good price.
See The Wire for a wonderful treatment of that.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:25 pmIt’s right out of Greek mythology. Right, nk?
This seems to be a definition of hubris.
Kind of like keeping Biden on the ticket.
Simon Jester (0d7847) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:26 pmThe GOP’s big boys are going to make Akin an offer he can’t refuse.
Drop out, and have your debts paid, or be the new David Duke, bankrupt and a loser.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:27 pmIt amuses me that Obama either takes Sarah Palin’s instructions and replaces Biden, or he shoots himself in the foot and keeps him.
Dustin (73fead) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:29 pmI think she is still quite irritable over her treatment, and enjoyed doing that.
Simon Jester (0d7847) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:33 pmSimon, yup.
nk (875f57) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:39 pmTo use Russian roulette as a metaphor, Akin has just handed a six-shot revolver to McCaskill, and said, “Aim for my head, but you can only pull the trigger five times.”
Icy (8445db) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:54 pm“RINOs like Coulter, Levin, Hannity, and Malkin are saying get out.”
Patterico – When long time Missouri voters like that are saying get out, a candidate really should pay attention, huh.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:55 pmSorry, we’re still using it 🙂
Milhouse (15b6fd) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:57 pmLet’s see, Princess Claire, who has voted with Obama 90% of the time
Versus
A bona fide conservative who beat two other bona fide conservatives in the primary, who stuck his foot in his mouth, took it out and has been apologizing nonstop ever since.
Tough choice.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/20/2012 @ 8:59 pm(Advance warning: language and ultraviolent imagery below. Yeah, I’m pissed off.)
It’s at this point that I think it’s time the inner GOP apparatus finally stops behaving like pampered ivy-league lettermen, and learns to keep its nominees in line like the gangland thugs in the DNC do.
First, make it an ironclad new rule in the GOP: it doesn’t matter if you won your primary by 9000%. If you embarrass the party in any way before the party’s selection deadline, you, your career, funding support, and whole staff “disappears.” Literally. Forever.
And then, if I were Reince Priebus, I’d fly directly to Missouri, sit this idiot down and, in my all-time best R. Lee Ermey impression voice, say to him, “Mr. Akin, you utter and complete dumb-ass, stupid, shit-for-brained son of a bitch from hell, I don’t care if Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Yahweh themselves all personally came down from heaven last night and lined up to each give you blowjobs that would kill Bill Clinton, and I don’t give a flying fuck what all your major or minor malfunctions are, or how many nights you’ve wasted massaging your tiny, tiny dick and fantasizing of being Senator or King or the Emperor of Ice Cream. Tell me you’ve decided to quit this race in the next five seconds, or you and your entire family will die early from the enormous lifelong stress we’ll place you all under for the rest of your shitstained lives. Get the hell out of this senate race THIS VERY SECOND, or we’ll throw you out, off a bridge, and directly onto a revving chainsaw blade.”
qdpsteve (e4fc78) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:01 pmall the wrong people are jumping off all the wrong bridges
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:04 pmor getting the cancer
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:09 pmMay showers of almighty heavenly blessings descend upon you tonight brother feets.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:12 pmI think my earlier comment ended up in the filter. (Not that I blame Patterico, it’s full of violent imagery.)
Assuming it *is* in the filter, I’ll leave it up to you Pat as to whether you think it’s worth posting or not.
qdpsteve (e4fc78) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:16 pmyou too brother daley may he giveth you gas for your ford that ye might keep trucking for the Lord
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:20 pmSomeone here has found his Dewhurst.
Icy (8445db) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:23 pmPlease, please, someone take Akin to a “Dark Knight” matinee Tuesday.
AD-Restore the Republic/Obama Sucks! (2bb434) — 8/20/2012 @ 9:43 pmCongressman, your last friend in the world, Rex, just shat in your slippers.
What you must do, do quickly.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/20/2012 @ 10:35 pmor getting the cancer
The only one with brain cancer is the one in Missouri.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/20/2012 @ 10:44 pmR.I.P. Ron “Arnold Horshack” Palillo
Icy (8445db) — 8/20/2012 @ 10:44 pmAnd Robert “Juan Epstein” Hegye!
Gee, at this rate it’ll be my turn soon. That’s a show I definitely liked watching.
Random (edf1d2) — 8/20/2012 @ 10:52 pmSo f****g die, already. Sheesh!
nk (875f57) — 8/20/2012 @ 10:58 pmRosie O’D had a heart attack last week. I predict any heart plugged in that witch would reject her.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/20/2012 @ 11:11 pmGood news, the Republican convention is hosting a hurricane.
Better news, BiBi will brighten the Donk fete with Iranian attack.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/20/2012 @ 11:13 pmHow can the left look at the people in government and think they want to give them even more power?
No, no, no, we swear. Only geniuses will be on the Obamacare Medicare review board. Only really informed people will review renewable energy companies for loans.
MayBee (a1dde3) — 8/20/2012 @ 11:29 pmBestest news: gee-gee was just elected president of the Optimists Club!
Icy (8445db) — 8/21/2012 @ 4:35 amSince when has being a brainless twit been a barrier to election to the Senate? Slow Joe Biden was a senator prior to becoming VP.
BarSinister (664312) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:37 amSince when has being a brainless twit been a barrier to election to the Senate? Slow Joe Biden was a senator prior to becoming VP.
Normally, I’d agree with this, and the example given is a sterling one. However….
Akin has several things against him in this case:
1) He’s not a Democrat
2) He’s not an incumbent Democrat
3) He’s not a Democrat
Any more?
Pious Agnostic (7c3d5b) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:56 am_____________________________________________
RINOs like Coulter, Levin, Hannity, and Malkin are saying get out.
Has such a uniform, very public response of disapproval ever been on display from those on the left when a liberal politician really screwed up? At most, it seems that such a reaction will be muted or sporadic at best when, as one example, an Anthony Weiner is making a joke of himself. Actually, if anything, it seems like quite a few liberals will kneel down and prostate themselves in front of figureheads similar to Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Al Sharpton.
This is a major reason why corruption, of various types — social and economic — is more likely to be triggered and then flourish when the left is in charge of things.
Mark (b175ab) — 8/21/2012 @ 8:09 am19. 31.
The Brooklyn Bridge is not for sale, but a bid for the Tappan Zee bridge across the Hudson River would probably be much appreciated.
http://www.tappanbridgepark.com/
If that old bridge is not sold tolls will probably rise sky high on the new one.
Maybe Disney might be interested? Otherwise this bridge is likely to be just torn down.
We have Disneyland in California, and Disney World in Florida, but nothing anywhere near the Northeast. And hardly any theme parks around, except maybe Palisades.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 9:16 am46. Comment by gary gulrud — 8/20/2012 @ 11:13 pm
Good news, the Republican convention is hosting a hurricane.
That was last time. What is this, deja vu all over again?
But there is good weather news: Drought Curtails Tornadoes / Without Thunderstorms, the Numbers of Twisters Plunges; Storm Chasers Lament
There are around 500 fewer deaths this year.
Blame global warming. Or something.
Most tornadoes that did happen this year were before the summer and most of the spring.
The Atlanta Constitution editorializes this is not a good tradeoff.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/woe-and-opportunity-tales-1497340.html
They claim the number of deaths from tornadoes is only 1 or 2 in July. (just in Georgia, maybe?)
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 9:33 am“…nothing anywhere near the Northeast…”
SF, just what do you call the State Capitol in Albany, if not DizzyWorld?
AD-Restore the Republic/Obama Sucks! (b8ab92) — 8/21/2012 @ 9:46 amBetter news, BiBi will brighten the Donk fete with Iranian attack.
Between the meeting of the nonaligned in Teheran and the U.N. General Assembly? I’d think anyway i would be the week after the convention if it is so early.
What might move it up to Sept is if Netanyahu thinks the window of opportunity is closing.
Th best time might very well be when Assal looks like he might be close to falling, but hasn’t fallen yet. Obama has done his part by warning Assad that if he uses chemical weapons all bets are off – and that means using it anywhere. Of course that means he can do anything up to that in Syria without triggering American military intervention.
He won’t get any Israeli intervention unless rockets are shot from Lebanon or Syria. but if they are Israel will probably go right for his headquarters if they know where it is.
From Israel’s point of view a point when Assad is in danger of falling is probably the safest time to attack Iran.
The way Israel is sounding, unless Iran shows signs of caving in, a probable later time for an attack is mid or late October. It won’t destroy everything or anything for too long – mostly block entrances to reprocessing facilities – Obama will then say this does not solve the problem and we still want Iran to agree to end its nuclear program. A U.S. attack would be all out – an all out assault on Iran’s air defense and naval capabilities. s I think I think the U.S. has given Israel a yellow light.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 9:47 amThe second link, McCaskill gets her opponent —, in Kevin M’s comment at 8/20/12 @7:50pm is required reading for an understanding of just how invested Claire McCaskill is in Todd Akin’s candidacy.
Especially considering that Missouri has open primaries, registered voters select the party ballot of their choice but may select only one party’s ballot.
(Voters with no party preference may request an issues only ballot, if available in the jurisdiction.)
ropelight (181843) — 8/21/2012 @ 9:49 amIran is going around saying they have a nuclear program but not a nuclear weapons program, and leaking rumors of a fatwa by the Supreme Leader against nuclear weapons which actually never was written or published, and predicting Israel will be destroyed soon by unspecified nations, and saying the world will be a much better place when Israelis destroyed and thee U.S. is out of the Middle East.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 9:55 amBack to Akin:
All this pressure to withdraw is because of the centralization of fundraising, which does not make for good politics.
The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee is afraid of losing donations if any of its money goes to help him. So they cut him off. And so did Karl Rove’s Crossroads.
But they actually want a Republican to win Missouri. And they want to help.
So they want him to withdraw.
Akin’s chances of winning have actually not been hurt too much. And he probably doesn’t need the outside money and he probably wouldn’t get too much of it anyway.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:02 am57- What’s the difference between the Mad Mullahs, and the Obama Administration?
Nothing!
They are both populated by reality deniers, and profligate prevaricators; and lead by narcissists.
We live in the most interesting of times.
AD-Restore the Republic/Obama Sucks! (b8ab92) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:04 amthis may end up being a very valuable consciousness-raising about how women have an innate ability to counter some of the impregnating consequences of legitimate rape
it’s a very empowering message
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:05 amThere’s no deadline today – there’s only a deadline for doing so without a court order, but court orders are supposed to be granted unless opposed by some election authority and there’s a good reason.
That means the real deadline is whenever it might otherwise be too late to print military ballots to be sent overseas: they have to be mailed no later than 45 days before the election = Saturday September 22.
The real deadline therefore is likely a week earlier or so. Certainly not anyway before the two conventions. Because of the possibility of a last minute switch and because there was any obligation to name a Vice President before the convention and he’s not legally named until then, nobody would have set up a printing schedule that started earlier.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:09 am59. The Mullahs say that Jews started taking ove the world 400 years ago.
It all started with the publication of the King James Bible… ???
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:13 amMr. feets, some people never learn — because they don’t want to know.
Icy (8445db) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:13 amI guess that gave the Zionists control of the English speaking nations…
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:14 amProbably the explanation coming from Iran is even more absurd and unreal.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:16 amThere’s no deadline today – there’s only a deadline for doing so
— He either has no sense of humor whatsoever, or the most deadpan degree of sarcasm and irony ever witnessed in recorded history.
Icy (8445db) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:18 amIt’s probably true that if Missouri had runoffs in primaries (like states that used to be part of the one-party Democratic south) Todd Akin would not have become the nominee, not only because Todd Akin might have lost the runoff, but because the whole McCaskill strategy of building Todd Akin up and knocking down his two main opponents might not even have been attempted.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:24 amProbably the explanation coming from Iran is even more absurd and unreal.
Comment by Sammy Finkelman — 8/21/2012 @ 10:16 am
— Yes, but what do all of the Zionists IN Iran have to say about it?
Icy (8445db) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:26 amThe significance of the 36% winning margin is that Todd Akin is probably not the Condorcet choice.
http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/10007.8.shtml
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:28 am“this may end up being a very valuable consciousness-raising about how women have an innate ability to counter some of the impregnating consequences of legitimate rape”
Mr. Feets – My radio airwaves are flooded with advertisements about hormone imbalances in post-menopausal women, so this is a very illuminating conversation for me.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:40 am“We have Disneyland in California, and Disney World in Florida, but nothing anywhere near the Northeast. And hardly any theme parks around, except maybe Palisades.”
Sammy – If you are thinking of Palisades Amusement Park, didn’t that close in 1971? Playland in Rye is still going, though, isn’t it?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 8/21/2012 @ 10:50 amThe reason there aren’t really any round-the-year big amusement parks in the northeast is due to the weather.
Amusement parks the size of Disney, Knott’s, et al, have huge overhead costs. They can’t make money if they’re “snowed” out for 4 months. Even when it’s not snowing, families don’t want to walk around outside all day in 36 degree weather.
By contrast, Disneyland in Anaheim is totally crowded during the two week Christmas break when schools are closed.
It’s the same reason most of the college football bowl games are in warmer weather climates.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 8/21/2012 @ 11:17 amOn January 1, would you rather be in Orlando, or Dallas, or Pasadena….or Baltimore or Boston or Buffalo !
Well, isn’t that special. Aikin ignores Huckabee, former Senators Danforth, Bond, Talent(sic) and current Blunt, RSC, everyone ‘cepting Claire’s pollster.
Wait for the courts 9/25 or we’ll have the first real wildcat run from the TEA Party.
Unintended consequences are a bitch.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/21/2012 @ 11:30 amit’s a very empowering message
It seems like it would be something Oprah would preach, maybe like the fifth edition of “The Secret”.
MayBee (a1dde3) — 8/21/2012 @ 1:07 pmI have a simple freaking question:
WHERE were these outraged “feminists” when the whole Roman Polanski thing was going on?
WHERE were all the cries for Whoopi to get off of The View when she said “it wasn’t ‘Rape Rape’” (if you read the court transcript, then, sorry, yes, it WAS “Rape Rape”. Not only was the girl only 13, but she was crying and asked him to stop… repeatedly. And he continued to rape her IN THE A**)
But strangely, all these now loudly offended people didn’t care about someone who actually DID rape someone or someone who blew it off as “not
REALLY ‘rape'”….
There does appear to be two kinds of rape — the kind committed by liberals, and the kind that the GOP is guilty of talking about.
It’s so sad it’s funny — the Left has no shame at all with their BS. They don’t give a rodent’s patootie about anything Akin said, it’s just another thing for them to create faux outrage against some inarguably STUPID comments by someone from the GOP — had Joe Biden said this (and you KNOW he could say something this stupid, he does it all the time), it would be on to the next news item….
I’m speaking to ALL of you “outraged” by this. Did you have the same level of complaint, voice the same level of “outrage” over Whoopi’s comments about an INARGUABLE case of Rape, or are you just another set of unprincipled libtard HACKs?
Ihe answer to this isn’t to get defensive. It’s to deal with it by tossing out this stupid moron (whose association with the bogus “Tea Party Express” group is now allowing the Left to tarnish the image of what the Tea Party stands for, as well) and then go on the counter-attack and toss their behavior in support of an ACTUAL rapist — Roman Polanski — as well as Whoopi Goldberg’s “rape rape” distinction (and its defenders) — in their face and tell them to just ST ever-lovin’ eph up, they’ve got nothing to get on a high horse about.
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P.S., you’ll see variants of the above posted as “OBloodyHell” — that’s not an effort to astroturf this, or anything. That’s been a preferred moniker all along, but someone put the e-mail on a spam blacklist so I had to create a different identity or be automatically rejected. Many of the “fixed” online IDs like discus, however, still have the OBH name.
IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States (8e2a3d) — 8/21/2012 @ 1:52 pm75. You’re a little late with context. Akin has already kicked the chair away and the janitor with a master key is blowing a heater on break.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/21/2012 @ 2:32 pmSo, what happens if he won’t quit? Does Brunner run a write-in campaign with Republican Party funds and backing, with the message that a vote for Akin is a vote for McCaskill?
Do the Republicans play real hardball and publicly excommunicate him at the Convention or eject him from the caucus?
Or do they accept him as the candidate and hope he doesn’t lose so badly he drags down Romney/Ryan?
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 8/21/2012 @ 2:56 pmWTF?–
from ABCnews:
“Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin’s statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape,” the campaign said yesterday, before dialing up the rhetoric. (against Akin)
Earlier today, the Republican National Convention approved a plank in their platform advocating for the passage of the “Human Life Amendment,” which would ban abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape or incest.
elissa (541216) — 8/21/2012 @ 3:08 pmStaying in, and thus proving that he’s even stupider than we all thought he was.
htom (412a17) — 8/21/2012 @ 3:17 pmNo, elissa, the RNC hasn’t approved anything, it has only been approved by a committee drafting the Platform for submission to the delegates for approval.
AD-Restore the Republic/Obama Sucks! (b8ab92) — 8/21/2012 @ 3:20 pmThere could very well be a vigorous floor-fight over this, and other, individual planks in the platform. It has happened before, and will happen again.
79. Evidently they can petition a state court(?) by 9/25 to have him removed from the ballot.
Brunner, Steelman, Wagner and others are in the hat for a replacement.
Those are the GOP options.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 8/21/2012 @ 3:43 pmComment by Icy — 8/21/2012 @ 10:26 am
– Yes, but what do all of the Zionists IN Iran have to say about it?
There are no Zionists in Iran. Who would dare be a Zionist?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 8/21/2012 @ 4:25 pmThere are lots of Zionists in Iran. They keep arresting Zionist agents; and if you can’t trust the Ahmadinejad regime when they level such an accusation, what’s left?
Besides, if they ever run out of human Zionist agents, there are still plenty of vultures and sharks working for the Mossad that need to be hung.
Steve57 (5797fd) — 8/21/2012 @ 6:48 pmThere are at least 2,000,000 jooooooos in Iran.
JD (746d0b) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:15 pmSteve, even if they get them, by now, the place has been infested with Zionist squirrel-agents over the last 5+ years…
IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States (8e2a3d) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:22 pmDoh!!
IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States (8e2a3d) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:23 pm============================
Steve, even if they get them, by now, the place has been infested with Zionist squirrel-agents over the last 5+ years…
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I wasn’t going to mention the Zionist squirrels. I somehow missed that report you linked to, and I didn’t realize their cover had been blown like the Zionist sharks and the Zionist vultures.
And the Zionist wild boars.
Steve57 (5797fd) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:53 pmNew thread on Akin staying in.
Patterico (83033d) — 8/21/2012 @ 7:57 pmComment by IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States — 8/21/2012 @ 1:52 pm
[The 57 states by the way, are on the quarters 1998-2009 (6, not 5, in the last year – those last 6 2009-dated quarters are kind of rare, because of recession, which reduced the demand for change) plus “Democrats Abroad”]
WHERE were these outraged “feminists” when the whole Roman Polanski thing was going on?
No feminists are outraged now, just Democrats, and Roman Polanski, as far as I know, did not contribute to any Democrats, besides they weren’t tainting people with who contributed to them, unless it was a white collar crime, having some involvment with government or with fraud. There’s no connection between Roman Polanski and any election – or is there?
WHERE were all the cries for Whoopi to get off of The View when she said “it wasn’t ‘Rape Rape’” (if you read the court transcript, then, sorry, yes, it WAS “Rape Rape”. Not only was the girl only 13, but she was crying and asked him to stop… repeatedly. And he continued to rape her IN THE A**)
Well you could say that was a single case, where nobody was familiar with the details. Whoopi was going by what he was convicted of, not what actually happened. She may have thought that that was all he actually did, but it was plea bargained down. Now maybe she knew more. But nobody else on the show knew either (I think)
After he pled guilty, Roman Polanski became aware the judge was not going to completely honor the plea bargain and he fled.
Akin, on the other hand, was giving an observation on human nature, for which you didn’t have to know any specific case to reject.
Besides, Oprah said she never really said that:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/9752/liar-whoopi-now-claims-she-never-said-polanski-didnt-rape/
had Joe Biden said this (and you KNOW he could say something this stupid, he does it all the time),
I don’t think he makes observations on human nature. His comments are much more specific.
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/21/2012 @ 8:05 pm91. I meant Whoopi Goldberg
Sammy Finkelman (2178a8) — 8/22/2012 @ 6:59 am86. Sure. Most of ’em buried before Cyrus.
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