Todd Akin Defies Mitt Romney and Stays in Missouri Senate Race

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17. He may be an idiot but Akin has the republican party by the short and curlies

For all the talk of pulling funds from his campaign and letting him twist in the wind, they are not going to do that and he knows it. They need to win that seat if they have any hope of regaining the majority in the senate. Rinsed Penis, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and all the other "mainstream" republicans who called for him to drop out have egg on their faces big time. They tried to pull a bluff and Akin called them out. They've been dissed in front of the whole world.

Romney is now a substantially weakened candidate, and Penis appears to lack any clout whatsoever as party chairman.

This could not have played out any better.