Republicans Plan To Prevent Another Todd Akin

Republicans Take Steps To Prevent Another Todd Akin
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012, file photo Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., addresses members of the media in Chesterfield, Mo., where he confirmed his plans to remain in Missouri's U.S. Senate race despite a political uproar over remarks he made about rape and pregnancy. A newly published report says Akin was repeatedly arrested during anti-abortion protests in 1985. Akin recently acknowledged being arrested once, about 25 years ago, but has declined to discuss additional details. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its website Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, that its newspaper archives include at least three accounts of Akin being arrested in March and April of 1985. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012, file photo Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., addresses members of the media in Chesterfield, Mo., where he confirmed his plans to remain in Missouri's U.S. Senate race despite a political uproar over remarks he made about rape and pregnancy. A newly published report says Akin was repeatedly arrested during anti-abortion protests in 1985. Akin recently acknowledged being arrested once, about 25 years ago, but has declined to discuss additional details. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its website Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, that its newspaper archives include at least three accounts of Akin being arrested in March and April of 1985. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings, File)

Read their lips: no more Todd Akins.

In the wake of the GOP’s Election Day beatdown, influential Republican senators say enough’s enough: Party leaders need to put the kibosh on the kind of savage primaries that yielded candidates like Akin — and crippled Republican prospects of taking the Senate in two straight election cycles.

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