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Selfish Akin Bringing GOP Down With Him

nomore Wrote: Aug 23, 2012 8:43 AM

I live in AL, another state unlikely to go to Obama. Still, I will vote the Republican ticket b/c if everybody felt like you, AL might actually fall to Obama! Please don't let that happen in TN. By the way, I don't like Romney, either. But, I detest Obama and think he will be the downfall of America.

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Selfish Akin Bringing GOP Down With Him

If “all politics is local politics,” it must be said: This is a bad week to be a Missourian.

No, I don’t live in Missouri. But I’m a conservative and a pro-life advocate, so thanks to Rep. W. Todd Akin, I must necessarily worry about the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, a contest that should have been an easy win for my side.

Mr. Akin thrust himself into the Hall of Fame of 21st Century Political Stupidity, an incredible accomplishment in the age of Anthony “Weinergate” Weiner, then-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s rendezvous with a lover in Argentina, and anything uttered...

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