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What should Todd Akin do?
(CNN) – Republican Rep. Todd Akin isn’t budging. Despite calls from his party establishment to drop out — including a personal phone call from vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan — Akin said Wednesday he is staying in the Senate race.
“The people of Missouri chose me to be their candidate. And I don’t believe it’s right for party bosses to decide to override those voters,” Akin said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Ryan “did give me a call, and he felt that I had to make a decision, but he advised me that it would be good for me to step down,” Akin said on NBC’s “Today Show.”
Akin said he told Ryan “that I was going to be looking at this very seriously, trying to weigh all the different points on this,” adding, “it’s not about me — it’s about standing on principle.”
It is ‘appropriate to recognize a creator, God, whose blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the very source of American freedom.’ – T. Akin
Patriotic Jesus
It could be the media’s spin. But seems to me, if Akin decides to remain in, which he has repeatedly said he is, then from purely a strategic standpoint, he should use his limelight to redirect the beam of light off of his apology and onto the failures of the administration/why he’s running for office. Constant defensiveness will only shore up the opposition’s venom.