Let’s all pray that Clown has not yet decided that he is now a martyr. From his photos, he has that look. If he does, then in his mind he is Heaven bound & we are all toast.

“Johnson for Senate. Because it’s not about you.”

Pure political zen.

Yep, if you’re going to tough it out, you need to get out there and appear deeply repentant in every possible venue. Booking and then backing out won’t do it. Not that anyone much watches Piers Morgan, of course.

This business of letting single-issue primary voters select who our candidates for national office are has got to stop. Both parties suffer from this. Look at the hash the Tea Party & Grover Norquist are making. Near as I can tell, Clown’s qualifications for the Senate is a master’s in divinity. Really?

Time to go back to the smoke-filled room IMHO.

He definitely needs to depart. Of course, were he a Democrat who killed a young woman, he would get a pass.

Chris

Last week wife and I saw the Jaco
ad on fox 2 news.I told her quote”why is he going on that show”.Jaco is a way far left liberal with a obama for president bumber sticker on his face.He wanted to go to Seattle because St Louis was too conservitive for him.

I thought the Tea Party was for Sarah Steelman (i.e., Sarah Palin endorsed)?

CJ, Anybody in Missouri got the stuff to pull a Joe Lieberman? Could help enormously. Near as I can tell the only person on this planet who isn’t hearing the uproar is Todd Akin.

Given certain media trends, that guy makes it difficult for us Missouri ex-pats to explain that we’re not all like him.

Yeesh.

Terrific. I understand Mike Huckabee was an akin booster in the primary. Now Akin says, on Huckabee’s radio show, that he’s staying in. Thanks, Huck. Senate majority be damned, apparently.

Is there even a viable 3p candidate? I looked for the libertarian candidate today, and his fb page still says he’s running for the senate in 2010, his webpage is for sale, and I can’t find any evidence of him campaigning. Maybe the Constitution guy would work, if he’d promise to vote to repeal ACA. Any idea who won that one? If a 3p candidate promised today or tomorrow to caucus with the reps and started a real campaign, this whole thing could still backfire for Claire… hoping, hoping.

Effabee has rubbed me the wrong way from the start, and indeed he seems like little but a pro-life Jimmy Carter as time has passed. Now I’m really steamed at him. Wish I could just get my mind around the fact that he, like the Clintons, is never. going. to. go. away…..and then maybe I could stop turning my keyboard top and monitor surface blue with my language every time he does us over again! And if he tried to convince Akin to leave, well, good, but not enabling him to start with would have been much better…Maybe the GOP should split after this election and get it over with. Difficult to think, after all the work we have done here in IN to call it home, but moments like this force one to consider. And now I’m making a rare
evening run into town to get some dark chocolate!

Regret writing *Effabee*. Will make it Snopesabee in the future (after some original Snopes; which one, I’d have to re-read & think… not Eck, certainly).

That guy didn’t just shoot himself in the foot. He swallowed a grenade and its going to blow up all over the GOP!

And he is too bloody stupid to see that.

Three things come not back: the blow struck, the arrow sped, the word spoken.

I don’t care how sorry he is. I don’t care what is in his heart. If he has that little mastery of his tongue, he does not belong on the ballot.

To the point, Ed, to the point.

Problem is the smoke-filled room was not doing much better. Can one of the other primary candidates get on as a petition candidate? That might give people a viable option.

What a complete, selfish pig this man is. It is all about him.

What should have happened was a runnoff because he did not get a majority of the vote.

This just sucks!

I guess your GOP doesn’t have the authority (or balls) to remove him as a candidate.

Steve L., it may not be that easy. He won a primary according to state rules.

Yeah, they don’t have the power. And if anyone’s thinking of writing in Sarah Steelman or John Brunner, forget it. They’re ineligible since both lost in the primary and Missouri has a “sore loser” law. Kit Bond’s name’s been floated although I’m not sure he’d want the job again.

Kate. Up here in Canukistan the provinces have no say in federal elections. The party holds a nomination and if Party HQ approves, the candidate runs. If not the Party designates the candidate. Personally I see the primary system as a big waste. The other advantage (?) we have is the party leader becomes PM ONLY if he wins a majority. It has always astounded me how the electorate will chose a President from one party and then allow the other to controle the houses. Our Senate is appointed, so the government of the day stacks the deck for the next 10-15 years. It ain’t perfect

Want to see a train wreck, the Quebec election is in thye works.

Yeah, Steve L., you have a parliamentary system, which works differently.

Akin actually has until Sept. 25 to petition a court to withdraw, today’s deadline having passed. There will be continuing pressure and a drying up of funds and support statements. He’ll claim mental stress (which will be an honest excuse) and bail out. One hopes it’s not too late when he does.

Once he withdraws, the party can nominate someone. Brunner, the next largest vote-getter, would be a good choice if you ask me. People suggesting former Sen. Danforth aren’t conservatives, are they?

A parliamentary system, which I don’t claim to fully understand, always seemed like an interesting alternative. The two-party system is particularly limiting. On the other hand, having a president, who is neither monarch nor prime minister, at odds with Congress has much to recommend it.

FW our multi party free-for-all has netted as Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition:

The Block Quebecois, a party bent on removing Quebec from Canada and therefor didn’t gave a damn about the rest. Fortunatly they could stall but not block legislation.

Now we have the New Democratic Party, rampant socialists and bent on making all business government owned (Obummer could use his Built It quote here)

The Liberals fell on their face last election, but so did the Conservatives in the 90′s and they bounced back.

And if the PM is unpopular with the party or country a vote of non-confidence is a great way to house clean, although sometimes too often.

We can prorogue parliament and send them home for a while.

“that guy makes it difficult for us Missouri ex-pats to explain that we’re not all like him.”

I kinda sympathize. We Illinois residents went through this about 3-4 years ago when Governor Hairdo was making an ass of himself all over the talk show/reality show circuit. And he kept it up through an impeachment, a book tour and TWO federal corruption trials. Hopefully, Akin isn’t THAT stupid and the Senate can still be brought back to GOP control without him.