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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 05:47 PM Aug 2012

Tea Party Express: Akin ‘Should Step Down’

The Tea Party Express, the nation's largest tea party super PAC, is urging Todd Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race, citing the 2010 losses of tea party candidates like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell to make their case in a press release Monday.

“One of the lessons we learned in 2010 is that we need candidates who are not only conservative, but are capable of putting together a strong campaign against liberal opponents," Amy Kremer, the group's chairwoman, said in a statement. Kremer followed Connie Mack's lead in comparing Akin's comments to ones made by Vice President Joe Biden last week: "Akin’s frequent ‘Bidenisms’ are distracting from the important issues at hand."

“Congressman Akin’s comments this weekend are not just unfortunate and inappropriate, but they are distracting from our main goal of defeating Claire McCaskill and taking the Senate gavel out of the hands of Harry Reid. At a time when our national debt is approaching $16 trillion, job growth is stagnate, and the Senate has failed to pass a budget in over 3 years, we need a candidate that is ready to help lead the charge for conservative solutions," Kremer said.

”It is critical that we defeat Senator Claire McCaskill in November, but it will be too difficult to achieve that with Todd Akin as the conservative alternative. He should step down and give conservatives a chance at taking back the Senate in November."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/tea-party-express-akin-should-step-down

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orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
3. Give him knock-out drops ,then pass the bottle.
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 05:52 PM
Aug 2012

The tea party making that request is like the phony Republicans that also wanted to see Mitt Wits taxes.

 

datasuspect

(26,591 posts)
5. OBAMA MARXIST (**spittle**) REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE LIES THUG!!!!1
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 05:54 PM
Aug 2012

that's pretty much sums up everything the teafucks have to say.

i can see everyone's email at work, this one bloke subscribes to their newsletters. they are hideously offensive.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
7. The only difference between Akin and Joe Biden is that
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 06:02 PM
Aug 2012

Joe is on very close terms with the TRUTH and has been for his entire political career.

tanyev

(42,540 posts)
8. "We need candidates who are not only conservative,
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 07:38 PM
Aug 2012

but are capable of putting together coherent sentences."

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
9. Nahhhh. He's your guy! You teabaggers all believe women are constantly doing
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 07:44 PM
Aug 2012

mysterious, manipulative, evil shit with our reproductive organs. He just said it out loud. OWN IT, TEABAG CROWD, HE'S YOURS!

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