Conservatives Fund endorses Akin in Mo. Senate bid

Thursday, September 27, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A conservative fundraising group has endorsed Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin and is pledging to direct $290,000 to the Republican’s campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

The announcement Thursday by the Senate Conservatives Fund marks the most high-profile financial commitment Akin has received as he seeks to recover from the loss of millions of dollars of planned advertising by other national groups that aid Republicans. Those groups withdrew their support after Akin remarked last month that women’s bodies have ways of averting pregnancy in cases of what he called “legitimate rape.”

Akin has apologized repeatedly since then. He’s hoping that his campaign can regain momentum, now that he has let pass a final deadline to drop out of the race.

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Sequoia 7 months, 4 weeks ago

What woman will vote for this guy?

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/todd-akin-says-claire-mccaskill-was-more-ladylike-in-2006/262966/

eileen10 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I will not be voting for him. Anyone with a mind set like his needs to GO AWAY!!!!!

spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Take a closer look at my profile picture and witness the "mind set" of the POTUS.

TickledPink 7 months, 3 weeks ago

What's your point? It's a great butt - I'd look at it too. He's supposed to stop being a healthy adult male just because he's our President? Now, if he was telling her she needs to put less revealing clothes on because she looks very rapable, THAT would be a problem. If he reached out and grabbed it, that would make him Bill Clinton. He looked. Oh no. Oh my. Whatever shall we do? (Imagine that in Ben Stein's voice)

Sequoia 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Actually, you can watch the video where that picture comes from. In reality, Obama is reaching back to take Michelle's hand, like any gentleman is supposed to do when his wife confronts stairs in high heels.

The screengrab just makes it look like he's checking out the chickadee.

This kind of thing is all the movement conservatives have on Obama. It's weak. They got nothing.

I do enjoy Spel's profile pics, though.

spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago

"What's your point?" - The double standard of the left. Thanks for making my point.

TickledPink 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I'm not "the left" and I've shown no hipocracy or double standard. I'm guessing you didn't read the rest of my post. If you can't see the difference between how Akin and Romney and many other Republicans talk about women and that photo, that's your problem.

LuckNLove 7 months, 3 weeks ago

What woman wouldn't want to vote for this guy! Look at all the pro-Akin supports that turned out the other day to rally for him. It was quite a tear-jerking sight. LMBO

RobHunterJohnson 7 months, 3 weeks ago

All you have to do is look at all the other quotes he has made to know he does not have my interest at heart. Rob

spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago

"All you have to do is look at all the other quotes he has made to know he does not have my interest at heart."

But Barack Obama does?

When asked about the bowling alley in the White House, Obama joked to Leno that his average score of 129 "was like the Special Olympics or something."

I'm sure all of you Dems are just losing sleep over "ladylike". Would someone care to post big financial supporter, friend, and Obama voter Jay-Z lyrics? Let me: You know I - thug em, f@ck em, love em, leave em Cause I don't f@ckin need em Take em out the hood, keep em lookin good But I don't f@ckin feed em

Liberal hypocrisy has no bounds.

asb 7 months, 3 weeks ago

I don't think Akin is running against Obama, yet. Write-in maybe. Gangsta lyrics often bring up my lunch, but they're song lyrics, not policy. Jay-Z isn't running for office either. Todd Akin sits in a US Congressional Science committee for cripes sake and his credentials for that post and as a representative of Missouri are zero. His Mysogeny is real, heartfelt and counter to nearly every Christian, conservative, and American value set. If Claire ate kittens she'd still be more suited to the Senate than Akin.

spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Birds of a feather.

spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago

"I don't think Akin is running against Obama, yet." -- News of the tautological.

Sequoia 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Akin would probably say that any woman, be she liberal or conservative, who is questioning whether she really wants to live in the world envisioned by the "conservative movement" is behaving in a very "unladylike" fashion.

In the conservative movement, women are subject and man is object. Men rule, women obey. Good little wife. Dress and act and behave the right way, and you'll be fine. Just take it and be quiet.

Whether you're talking about the Church bishops persecuting Catholic nuns for daring to care about the poor and marginalized, or Akin's insults, or policies that reduce women's rights over their own bodies, there is nothing conservative about the way the "conservative movement" looks at women. Look around and you'll see women on the upward move. That scares men like Akin. Makes him nervous.

True conservatives, like Obama, aren't afraid of women. We can all work together.

Akin's views need to be thrown away for good.

spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago

"Akin would probably say that any woman..." -- More clairvoyance from the left.

connor 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Ya we wouldn't want women to have to prove their accusations of rape or anything. Nor would we want them to compete on a level playing field. We also want to make sure any choice a woman makes over her "own" body is funded by everyone else's wallet as well.

Even mentioning that their maybe frivolous accusations of rape or that there is scientific research to support the claim makes you the absolute enemy.

The term "It takes two to tango" is only applicable when it means more money in female pockets.

Feminist opinions and oppression is nothing more than warfare by vote as we waste Trillions trying to fit square pegs into round holes and claim even more wealth from men. You can fool people but the basic laws of nature always win out in the end. Our present economic issues attest to that.

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