{"id":1084,"date":"2012-08-21T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2012-08-21T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T23:08:10","slug":"lets-not-block-akins-bid-lets-fix-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/21\/lets-not-block-akins-bid-lets-fix-the-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Not Block Akin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bid, Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fix the System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, I have a number of thoughts and questions related to the blowup over GOP Rep. <strong>T<\/strong><strong>odd Akin<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outrageous remarks recently about rape and abortion and women.  Let me first say that if I was a Missouri voter, I would likely vote for a third-party candidate or write in someone else in November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/congress-legacy\/akin-the-establishment-strikes-back-20120821\">A throng of Republican leaders<\/a> have called on Akin to resign his nomination so he can be replaced. As of Tuesday evening, Akin <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2012\/08\/akin-say-hes-st.php\">has refused<\/a>. Why should he resign?  Did he do something illegal or unethical? His cardinal sin to most of the Republicans calling on him to drop his bid was that he was honest and stupid and said out loud what he believes, thus endangering the GOP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prospects of picking up the Missouri Senate seat. So the pursuit of political power is paramount in this equation.<\/p>\n<p>But where were these same Republican leaders in 2008 when Sarah Palin created the same scenario with her outrageous comments?  I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see any of them asking <strong>John McCain<\/strong> to drop her from the ticket.  There were no calls for her to be replaced on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/columns\/common-sense\/let-s-not-block-akin-s-bid-let-s-fix-the-system-20120821\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/columns\/common-sense\/let-s-not-block-akin-s-bid-let-s-fix-the-system-20120821<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people, I have a number of thoughts and questions related to the blowup over GOP Rep. Todd Akin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outrageous remarks recently about rape and abortion and women. Let me first say that if I was a Missouri voter, I would likely vote for a third-party candidate or write in someone else in November. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/21\/lets-not-block-akins-bid-lets-fix-the-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Not Block Akin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bid, Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fix the System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,505],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-matthew-dowd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-hu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}