GOP leader McConnell suggests Todd Akin consider his options (LA Times)

[pinto]

They're circling the wagons, heading for the hills, whatever. Pick your popular metaphor... ~ pinto

GOP leader McConnell suggests Todd Akin consider his options

By Lisa Mascaro
August 20, 2012, 1:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- As the deadline approaches for candidate withdrawals from the Missouri Senate race, the GOP leader in the Senate became the latest high-ranking official to suggest that Todd Akin consider whether his recent comments on “legitimate rape” will impede his campaign for the office.

“What he said is just flat wrong in addition to being wildly offensive to any victim of sexual abuse,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader. “Although Representative Akin has apologized, I believe he should take time with his family to consider whether this statement will prevent him from effectively representing our party in this critical election.”

Under election rules in Missouri, the deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday for candidates to withdraw from the Senate race without a court order. The state party would have until Sept. 18 to select another candidate.

Former Republican Sen. Jim Talent, who was defeated in 2006 and has long been a top party choice for the seat, said Monday that he was not interested.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-mcconnell-suggests-todd-akin-consider-his-options-20120820,0,5243455.story

[DFW]

1. "Effectively representing" your party, Mitch? Are you kidding?

His remarks DO effectively represent your party!

It's his unabashed public airing of that representation that bothers you, not the remarks themselves.

Like fungus, Republican ideals thrive and grow in slime and away from the sunlight.

[russspeakeasy]

2. Well said.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Tick, tick, tick, tick...........

Oh, the agony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[surrealAmerican]

4. That's pretty much the same thing Romney said.

I think they're being a bit optimistic telling this particular person to "think about" anything. If he had that ability, he wouldn't have said such a thing in the first place.

[cr8tvlde]

5. "I mis-spoke..." is not an apology.

I'm sorry and I won't do it again...is an apology and some maturity of a lesson learned. Neither of which apply.

[pinto]

6. Yeah. "I really didn't mean what I said"...

[DreamGypsy]

7. Too long in the Wasteland...

No, I think Mr. Akin actually did mean what he said and to assert otherwise in his 'retraction' would have required him misspeak yet again - by blatantly lying.

Mr. Akin initially misspoke in a manner I think was best characterized in James McMurtry's song Too Long in the Wasteland:

well, I hadn't intended to bend the rules
whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools
I didn't mean to say it but I meant what I said
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
must've gone to my head

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