Todd Akin Consultant Compares Candidate To Deadly Cult Leader

Todd Akin had to put up with the same kind of harassment as did Branch Davidian cult ldeaderDavid Koresh says Akin consultant Kellyanne Conway.

“I’ve expressed this to Todd as my client for a while now, I’ve expressed it to him directly,” Akin consultant Kellyanne Conway said in interview released today by the conservative Family Research Council. “The first day or two where it was like the Waco with the David Koresh situation where they’re trying to smoke him out with the SWAT teams and the helicopters and the bad Nancy Sinatra records. Then here comes day two and you realize the guy’s not coming out of the bunker. Listen, Todd has shown his principle to the voters.”

In a written statement, Akin spokesman Ryan Hite said, “It was a stupid comment to make.”

Conway said today that she was not comparing Akin to Koresh, but rather was comparing the GOP leaders who were trying to dislodge Akin to the federal agents in the standoff with Koresh.

 “It was about how overbearing the Republicans had been. It was about the tactics being used to force (Akin) out,” Conway said. “I wasn’t comparing the (two) men. . . . I don’t consider David Koresh a man of fortitude. Todd Akin is a man of fortitude.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.