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(26,184 posts) Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:32 PM Aug 2012

Todd Akin Campaign Tweet: ‘I Am In This Race To Win’

Source: Talkingpointsmemo

Todd Akin Campaign Tweet: ‘I Am In This Race To Win’

EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO 3:16 PM EDT, MONDAY AUGUST 20, 2012

Minutes after the NRSC urged him to quit the Missouri Senate race and a major GOP super PAC promised not to help him, Rep. Todd Akin's (R) campaign Twitter feed posted an update reading "I am in this race to win."

Todd Akin
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@ToddAkin
I am in this race to win. We need a conservative Senate. Help me defeat Claire by donating: secure.campaignsolutions.com/toddakin/donat… #mosen
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Todd Akin Campaign Tweet: ‘I Am In This Race To Win’ (Original Post) flpoljunkie Aug 2012 OP

Keep on trucking, Akin sakabatou Aug 2012 #1

Now that's a TRUE RoccoR5955 Aug 2012 #2

I think he should stay...we need something else to drape on Ryan. sinkingfeeling Aug 2012 #3

Memo to Claire: Go ahead and renew your lease... LongTomH Aug 2012 #4

Don't give up, Todd! bushisanidiot Aug 2012 #5

Stay in the race, D-bag Redford Aug 2012 #6

...even if the voters of Missouri say no." tanyev Aug 2012 #7

Great! Do a photo op with Ryan while you're about it! flamingdem Aug 2012 #8

"...even if I have to hold a knife to your throat" Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #9

Question is... is he running a "legitimate" "campaign" ? mwooldri Aug 2012 #10

did he Tweet that out to rapists ? KurtNYC Aug 2012 #11

sakabatou

(42,180 posts)

1. Keep on trucking, Akin

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:35 PM

Aug 2012

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)

2. Now that's a TRUE

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:39 PM

Aug 2012

(take your pick)
Idiot
delusional
dope
jerk
schmuck
denialist

sinkingfeeling

(51,478 posts)

3. I think he should stay...we need something else to drape on Ryan.

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:40 PM

Aug 2012

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)

4. Memo to Claire: Go ahead and renew your lease...

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:44 PM

Aug 2012

...wherever you're living in Washington, DC!

bushisanidiot

(8,064 posts)

5. Don't give up, Todd!

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:45 PM

Aug 2012

there are many more interviews you can screw up before the election!

Redford

(373 posts)

6. Stay in the race, D-bag

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 03:47 PM

Aug 2012

Claire will win this by a landslide.

tanyev

(42,634 posts)

7. ...even if the voters of Missouri say no."

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 05:07 PM

Aug 2012

flamingdem

(39,332 posts)

8. Great! Do a photo op with Ryan while you're about it!

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 05:08 PM

Aug 2012

Ryan is the same douchebag Akin is, these are his views as well.

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)

9. "...even if I have to hold a knife to your throat"

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 05:09 PM

Aug 2012

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)

10. Question is... is he running a "legitimate" "campaign" ?

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 07:06 PM

Aug 2012

IMO his comments completely de-legitimized his campaign, not that he was that legitimate to begin with being republican and all that...

This race is Claire's for the losing now.

KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)

11. did he Tweet that out to rapists ?

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2012, 07:42 PM

Aug 2012

Akin has to try to keep the politics thing going -- he has no future as an OB/GYN.

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