Todd Akin Confuses Mitt Romney and the Entire GOP Establishment With ‘Liberal Media’
Tonight on Twitter, Todd Akin followed a well-worn right wing path and blamed everything on “the liberal media.”
I apologized but the liberal media is trying to make me drop out. Please stand w/ me tonight by signing my petition at akin.org/still-standing
— Todd Akin (@ToddAkin) August 22, 2012
He does have a small problem though.
Mitt Romney is the liberal media? RT
@toddakin I apologized but the liberal media is trying to make me drop out.— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) August 22, 2012
@toddakin Step Aside, Todd Akin - The Editors - National Review Online nationalreview.com/articles/31450… National Review is “liberal media?”— Gus (@Gus_802) August 22, 2012
@toddakin Interesting. Last I looked the highest profile voices trying to get you to drop out today was Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.— Gus (@Gus_802) August 22, 2012
@toddakin Lastly. Sean Hannity on Fox News was trying to get you to drop out today. On national television. That’s liberal media?— Gus (@Gus_802) August 22, 2012
At this point, he’s missed the deadline for withdrawing from the Senate race without penalties; he can still bail out but he’d need a court order, and he’d have to pay for ballots to be reprinted.
But it looks like he’s going for broke. He’s a Tea Party candidate through and through, and he doesn’t really owe anything to the Republican establishment.
We should be grateful to Akin for shining a big bright spotlight on the Republican Party’s total war on women’s rights. That’s why the big GOP fish put the big pressure on him today — not because they disapprove of him, and not because he expressed an extreme position, but because he’s spilling too many beans.
He’s a gift, not only to Claire McCaskill but to the Democratic Party and President Obama.
