September 12, 2012 - 9:47 am
The fallout appears to linger in the Missouri Senate race, with incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill still holding a six-point lead over Republican challenger Todd Akin. But the race is tightening.
Oh good, it’s tightening. Just a few weeks ago this race was the easiest Senate pick-up Republicans were looking at. McCaskill is such an awful Senator and candidate that she was polling behind everyone running in the GOP primary. And now “tightening” to within 6 points is seen as somewhat positive.
No doubt the Akin camp will spin the fact that the train wreck is now happening in slow-motion rather than full speed.
Unfortunately, Akin will be able to blame his eventual loss on a lack of support from the Republican Party rather than on his own lack of appealing characteristics and his apparently ego-driven refusal to let a better candidate take his (now diminished) spot.
If he wins, we need to point out early and often that he was in the race because Democrats voted for him in the primary. And that McCaskill is Just. That. Bad. Yes, Republicans have done this before too (Jack Kevorkian in Michigan, the homeless guy in SC) but it translated to an R win in the fall. Hoist by their own petard.
Should Akin lose, Republicans should wear that Akin loss like a badge of courage and as a warning to Evangelical Christians who run for elective office: If you don’t have a brain, don’t show up.
We already have enough elected numb-nuts.
Perhaps the best course going forward, since I still have no faith this idjit is going to step down, is that if he continues to cling to the nomination that the good voters of Missouri go ahead and hold their collective noses and vote for him.
As idiotic as he has been, he’s still preferable to McCaskill.
The republican leadership should then keep him at arms length for the duration of his term in office. A basement level broom closet with a janitor for his staff would be appropriate.
Then, when his term is up, primary his a$$ during the next earliest possible election cycle and get someone else in there who’s not as, well….stupid.