Rove slams Akin

Romney and a full spectrum of GOP politicians, from the RNC to tea party groups, condemned Akin's comments and called for him to drop out of a race considered crucial to Republican hopes of winning a Senate majority. Akin apologized and called his remarks incorrect, but he has refused to end his Senate bid. The imbroglio has given new life to McCaskill, considered the most vulnerable Democratic senator running, and caused chagrin within the Republican establishment. Republican strategist Karl Rove kept up the criticism of Akin on Monday, telling a breakfast in Tampa hosted by Politico that Akin is a good man with a good heart who "said a really stupid, indefensible thing from which there is no recovery, and if he really cares about the values of conservatism and pro-life, he will not go down for defeat as the biggest loss by a Republican candidate for Senate in modern history." Some conservatives, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, have defended Akin's decision to stay in the Missouri race, but Rove was unmoved. "I talk to some conservatives who say, 'It's not fair. We have to stand with him,'" Rove said. "Well, it is unfair. I get that. But it was also incredibly wrong, and there was no recovery from it. It would be one thing if it was some minor misstatement. But this was pseudo-science and morally incomprehensible."