If you missed the uproar tonight over tottering GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in Indiana--Todd Akin Lite--see the comments in video below. Story here. How this hurts GOP chances of taking Senate.
UPDATE #2 Dems now hitting this issue hard. Spokesman for Obama says he finds Mourdock view "demeaning to women." Now the Dems are calling on Romney to take down his pro-Mourdckk ad (view it below). NYT: GOPers "struggle to contain damage."
UPDATE #1 AP with full reaction story this morning. Romney distancing himself from candidate and hits his comment. But DNC just out with ad highlighting this unfortunate fact for Romney: Just this past Monday he cut the only ad he has done so far for any candidate--and it backed Mourdock (see it below). "Romney aides would not say whether the ad would be pulled and if the
Republican presidential nominee would continue to support Mourdock's
Senate bid. Other Republicans did not immediately weigh in.
Indiana Republican Party spokesman Pete Seat referred comment to the
Mourdock campaign. A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial
Committee did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday
night.
"National Democrats quickly picked up on Mourdock's statement and used it as an opportunity to paint him as an extreme candidate."
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One odd comment in the ad is Willard's assertion that Mourdock's election would provide "the 51st vote in the Senate to repeal Obamacare". From the moment Chief Justice Roberts screwed up the Oath of Office during the Inauguration forward, Republicans in the Senate set up an adamantine wall to block any proposals by the President that would help the country. They seized upon Rules of the Senate so that even a putative 60-seat majority (not really) would come up short. Does
willard believe that a
senate Majority Leader Mitch McTerrapin would amend the
Rules so a bare majority would be able to pass legislation? And Willard has also stated that he only needs 50.1% of the vote to win. Tell that to President Gore. If this is math, then it's math on meth.
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