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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 01:40 PM Oct 2012

Incompetent Akin campaign dialing numbers in Kansas

What's truly unique about Todd Akin among Republicans is not that he has offensive views or that he's completely clueless about science (although both of these are true). It's that he's so amazingly bad at hiding his crazy views, and continues to act offensively when everyone knows he should be keeping his mouth shut. Throughout the campaign, and particularly after Akin's "legitimate rape" comment, his campaign has exuded an aura of complete incompetence, and not just because of their never-ending stream of tone-deaf, offensive statements. For example, after Akin's campaign spitefully leaked an email from the Post-Dispatch, the reporter Kevin McDermott said the following:

“I shared the top of it with the campaign in an effort to give them an opportunity to fully respond, not to allow them to hurl an incomplete story out there under my name,” McDermott wrote in an email to Roll Call. “Unfortunately, I assumed I was dealing with a professional.”

A letter to the editor in today's Kansas City Star provides further support for the idea that Akin's campaign is not being run by professionals:

Now I really have a reason to detest those automated political phone calls. I received a phone call from former Arkansas governor and current Fox News personality Mike Huckabee asking for my support for Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin.

Mr. Akin should be glad he could not hear my unladylike response. You see, I’ll never vote for Mr. Akin despite his calls to my home phone.
I live in Kansas.
Kathyrn Bach

Of course this is just one letter, but it certainly fits with a pattern of incompetence that permeates every single aspect of his campaign.

http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2012/10/incompetent-akin-campaign-is-dialing.html?m=1

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Incompetent Akin campaign dialing numbers in Kansas (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 OP
i got robocalled by Huckabee for Akin here in upstate New york. hedgehog Oct 2012 #1
These are people who believe Jesus rode around on dinosaurs. HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #2
My first thought was it might be a call to a cell phone. beyurslf Oct 2012 #3
That's what I'm thinking too. proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 #5
Illegitimate calls will be re-absorbed into ...oh, Texas Eleanors38 Oct 2012 #4
 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
2. These are people who believe Jesus rode around on dinosaurs.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 02:03 PM
Oct 2012

It should not surprise us they are incapable of operating cutting-edge technology like telephones.

beyurslf

(6,755 posts)
3. My first thought was it might be a call to a cell phone.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 02:18 PM
Oct 2012

My son lives in KCK but has a MO cell phone number since it is just blocks away. But, a landline home phone should be pretty easy to figure out even in the KCK/KCMO area.

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
5. That's what I'm thinking too.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 05:51 PM
Oct 2012

Must be random dialers. But I have a cell phone and have not received one robo or other call this election season.

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