Akin is staying

Todd Akin should probably just stick his foot in his mouth and leave it there until sometime around Christmas.

The deadline for an easily withdrawal from the Missouri Senate race is long gone, and the man who somehow managed a bigger gaffe than all of Joe Biden's gaffes combined will be the Republican nominee in Missouri.

If it weren't Missouri or another swing state, Akin's stupid "legitimate rape" stupidity wouldn't matter nearly as much. If he were in Mississippi or New York or California, I'd simply be shrugging my shoulders. Oh well. Republican voters made their choice, and now they must live with it.

But this is Missouri -- the swingiest of swing states. And the GOP needs this state. We don't need it so we can bask in the sweet glow of power. We need it so we can save the country.

Republicans must win the presidency, because we're one Supreme Court Justice away from the slippery slope to Cuba or commie China. We need to win the Senate, because we're going to have to act quickly to save the country from economic collapse.

Missouri may just be the tipping point, and Akin and his big, fat, unfiltered mouth might cost us the Senate. And who knows how big of a drag Todd Akin may be on the top of the ticket. The GOP's path to the White House all but requires Missouri, and it could be close.

I'm disappointed that Akin believes that his candidacy is more important than the rest of the country. This is serious business this campaign season, and Akin should've fallen on his sword.

Instead, we're stuck with him. All we can do, all we can hope is that Missourians are willing to overlook an off-the-cuff moment of sheer vapidness. You hear me Show-Me-Staters! We need you to swallow your disgust, hold your noses and cast a ballot for Todd Akin in November.

The country is at stake. We're counting on you.

My Akin, Breakin' Heart

Todd Akin, the now-infamous GOP candidate for Senate in Missouri, said something so monumentally stupid it stings like a slap to the face.

I won't repeat his comments in full, but let's just say when any part of a comment you make involves the term, "legitimate rape," you need to have a long talk with that little filter that lives between your brain and your mouth.

That said, the idea of him resigning after winning a cut-throat primary two weeks ago, makes me sick. The idea of Claire McCaskill, quite possible the worst U.S. Senator in my lifetime, getting another term, also raises bile in my throat. She's a hideous, horrible human and I swear if I have to listen to her whiny, squeaky "Mom" voice for another four years, I may have to move out of the Kansas City metro area.

Elections have consequences, and the people of Missouri should have to live with it. Had I lived in Missouri (Ewwww.) I probably would've voted for Akin a few weeks ago. He seemed to be the anti-establishment candidate in every way possible.

Now, I think maybe the Establishment knew something the rest of us didn't: That guy's filter doesn't work. At all. It's too bad Steelman or Brunner, Akin's Republican opponents, were unable to get that message out in a meaningful way. Maybe they didn't know.

I'm talking way, way out of school here, because, maybe they tried. I followed that race in from the peripheral. We share the same television and radio market, so it's impossible for some of the noise from Missouri campaigns to leak over to the Kansas side. But the only negative ad that I remember seeing was one complaining that Sarah Steelman was backed by union thugs.

I love that a non-Establishment candidate, who I'm told spent far, far less than the other two, was able to pull out a giant win in the state next door. I detest the idea of party insiders (the Establishment) getting to pick his replacement should Akin back out. (It looks like he's staying as news is leaking to Twitter that he purchased ad buys for the next two weeks).

Akin essentially shot himself in the head last weekend. If he stays, I truly pray he recovers. One (monumentally stupid, uneducated, moronic, embarrassing) statement should not override Claire's record.

Beer Fest

There's going to be a beer fest in Wichita next month. Swoon. An early word of advice for Rep. Kevin Yoder should you decide to attend: Keep your pants on.

I gave at the office

Well, well, well.

In a stunning turn of events that should surprise absolutely no one, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is reporting today that red states are more charitable than blue ones. Read about it here.

The eight states whose residents gave the highest share of their income — Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Idaho, Arkansas and Georgia — all backed McCain in 2008. Utah leads charitable giving, with 10.6 percent of income given.

And the least generous states — Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire — were Obama supporters in the last presidential race. New Hampshire residents gave the least share of their income, the Chronicle stated, with 2.5 percent.

It's high time liberals with their smug little noses in the air, quit demanding that conservatives give money to the government. Conservatives give at the office, they give at church and they give at home.

Liberals, on the other hand, take at the office -- you can find the last bastion of liberals who are actually employed working for vaunted organizations like the Department of Motor Vehicles; and everywhere else. We're subsidizing their housing, their educations and sometimes, even their cell phones.

And in return, we are beaten with their snobbery about how we should help the less fortunate by paying higher taxes. 

Exasperating.

That's no ice cream truck

Well this is just sad.

There's a mobile "Who's Your Daddy?" mobile traveling around doling out DNA tests like popsicles. It's the Maury Povich Show on wheels.

“They flag us down, they pull us over, they talk to us,” owner and operator Jared Rosenthal said Wednesday. “Sometimes, because of the nature of the services, they want to be a little more discreet about it, but they do come or they’ll call the number.”

Depressed yet?

Supplemental blogging

I want to keep Wannabe fairly pure. It will be a blog mostly about politicians and the people who work for them rather than about the issues themselves. However, there will be times when I want to blog about the issues and not the personalities.

You'll find that information here on this supplemental blog.