Akin accepts apology from Rove over murder comment

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - Karl Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and now head of the conservative super PAC American Crossroads, apologized on Friday to Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri after a reporter published biting words Rove used to describe the embattled Senate candidate.

"We should sink Todd Akin. If he's found mysteriously murdered, don't look for my whereabouts," Rove said Thursday at a private fundraiser, according to a Businessweek reporter who was not supposed to be there.

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Rick Tyler, an adviser to Akin, said the congressman received and accepted an apology from Rove by telephone on Friday after the comments were reported by multiple news outlets. News of the apology was first reported by the Associated Press.

"Karl's personal apology to Todd was appreciated and Todd did forgive him," Tyler said. "But because Karl has maliciously and disgracefully attempted to ruin Todd's solid reputation as a public servant, at a minimum, he should follow Todd's example and make his own contrition public."

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Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/reporter-goes-inside-karl-rove-billionaire-fund-raiser/

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[valerief]

1. He *had* to accept the apology to avoid being whacked. nt

[beac]

2. Yup, it was ALL a set up.

Akin gets to look magnanimous "See... He threatened to KILL me and I FORGAVE him. Now, doesn't everyone feel silly for not accepting my apology over a little medical misunderstanding?"

And Rove, duly forgiven for his wicked malaprop, gets to show his remorse by returning the full force of Crossroads GPS to electing his best-again bro' Akin.

Nice and neat.

[sofa king]

5. I don't think it worked that well.

Akin's quote took less than 48 hours to close a ten-point gap in his race, and now a critically important "likely" Senate seat for the GOP is going to force the gangsters to divert millions in money and thousands of hours of effort which could have been spent trying to gain ground in the Senate, instead of holding on for dear life.

There are 33 Senate seats up for election; Democrats hold or have a chance to hold 23 of them, while Republicans defend only 10 of theirs. Yet despite that enormous strategic advantage, the GOP now faces the prospect of a 28-5 rout, and a potential loss of the filibuster in the Senate in 2014 when the odds are more in the Democrats' favor.

Note that all of this has gone down BEFORE we give 'em the kiss of death: an advertising barrage against nearly every GOP Senator showing that their vote to block the middle class tax cut will raise the taxes of 150 million Americans by an average of $1600, and the only way for voters to get it back is to VOTE OUT EVERY REPUBLICAN.

Instead of fighting that on a broad front, the GOP is already tied down in individual races they shouldn't have had to worry about--if they hadn't voted in favor of greed at every step for two years.

Now they're gonna pay.

[beac]

6. I don't think the gaffe was part of the "set up" but the

murder-comment-by-Rove followed by outrage-by-Akin followed by apology-by-Rove followed by apology-accepted-by-Akin smells a little too convenient to me. I think Rove was looking for a way to "honorably" get back to funding Akin. Hell, maybe he never stopped. We have only his word for it, after all.

Maybe this election year is making me a hopeless cynic.

[sofa king]

7. Oh, I see what you mean, now.

Smoothing out the ruffles, so to speak, by faking outrage and then faking consensus.

Yep. I'm that cynical, too.

[datadiva]

3. You can't make this stuff up. n/t

[BetterThanNoSN]

4. Well Karl, i'm curious...

When people you're associated with suspiciously die, such as Mike Connell and his tragic single engine plane crash, can your whereabouts(involvement) be questioned then??

[olddad56]

8. When is KKKarl Rove going to apologize for his role in the Iraqi genocide?

[totodeinhere]

9. If October rolls around and Akin is still in the race and polls show it

winnable for him as they do now look for the GOP or superpacs aligned with them to find a way to funnel money to his campaign regardless of what they are saying now.