Battle of the Show-Me State...
In Missouri, the Show-Me State, there is a wire-to-wire race between incumbent Senator Jim Talent and State Auditor Claire McCaskill. The winner could determine control of the Senate. I recently received an e-mail from one of our loyal readers, KWilcox, regarding McCaskill and her November Election bid.I was reading 'U.S. News World & Report' and lo and behold, there was a story about the Missouri Senate race. According to the article, McCaskill is "linking Talent to Bush with Krazy Glue, never missing an opportunity to say something like "The White House ought to just take a room in Missouri, they're here so often helping Jim Talent" as well as "...McCaskill is taking a page from the GOP playbook, campaigning in rural parts of the state."
Here is where KWilcox's e-mail comes into play with this story. What the Liberal magazine did not tell us was the quote McCaskill gave to a Kansas City Buzz blog pertaining to this topic. McCaskill's statement goes like this, "I made a big mistake, we made a big mistake assuming that people in rural Missouri don't care as much about college education tuition, health care, being able to afford a tank of gasoline...Even though Republicans have been the ones talking to them and listening to them for the last 10 years, they fundamentally understand this is not going right, that something is terribly wrong in the direction this country is going in."
Now, how can someone honestly want to give their vote to someone like a Claire McCaskill when she has clearly underestimated the intelligence of the people she wants to represent? Of course though, this is the same woman who is using her mother to gain supporters by having her (mom) go to gas stations throughout the rural areas of Missouri and blame the High Gas Prices on Senator Jim Talent, Governor Matt Blunt, as well as the Bush Administration to others while they are filling their tanks up. The McCaskill's are targetting the uneducated and mis-informed fools in these areas.
Missourians, please "Show Me" the state is smart enough not to elect Claire McCaskill come November.
posted by Diego @ 8:01 PM
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I sent the email because I just could not believe that even Claire would make a statement like that. The quote was sent to me and I checked it out. First of all, apologizing for such an insult is too little, too late. Obviously she did not know or really care about the rural voters then or now. Where is her staff? She has a very sloppy campaign, missing the farm bureau meeting, quotes like that, and if you go to the following link: http://www.dailystatesman.com/story/1165556.html she got ate up by a Dexter reporter on her inaccurate comments. If she keeps it up this sloppy, the National dems will pull out on her and concentrate on races they think they can win. Go Jim, Claire is a sinking ship
Great addition with the article from the Daily Statesman, well worth the read.
If you're too lazy to type in the link, click here
Claire being slammed.
She is as far left as Pelosi, but somehow this woman that makes Hillary look reasonable has support here. I don't get it.
Talent needs to be more vocal--I like his new ads where he is telling her faults.
The state auditor race is also important--the dem candidate is basically another Claire. Thomas is a solid candidate who has been Platte(?) County auditor for 12 years. She was awarded national "Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting" for nine consecutive years. What more needs to be said.
The other hot issue we have in MO is amendment 2 regarding cloing. This is bad news and is poorly written, no matter if you favor it or not. Basically if it passes, no laws can be passed that would hinder it (it gets unlimited funding because you can't limit funding, you can't change it in the future, etc.) The language is outrageous. If in doubt, read it:
http://www.nocloning.com/amendment.pdf
Pay close attention to sections 2(7), 5, and 7.
Great article at Daily Statesman, thanks for the link. We just need more of that, Claire!
try this link too, how hilarious, now let's get on to the debates...it should be fun
oops color me embarassed...here is link http://www.dailystatesman.com/story/1166497.html
This is great stuff, but unfortunately your average, uninformed person stupid enough to put a "Had Enough? Vote Democrat." bumper sticker on their car isn't going to see this. We fomehow need to figure out how to get this out to the "uneducated masses."
And maybe "fomeday" I'll learn how to type...
;o)
I agree Angel ... I agree
Apparently, the campaign purchased the remaining tickets for this Sunday's game in a deal with KMOV (they would air the game if it was sold out) to provide news coverage of Ms. McCaskill handing out free tickets: A deal was struck from the KMOV sales dept. for coverage of Claire handing out tickets if she bought the remaining tickets so channel 4 could show the game this Sunday. This sale of the remaining tickets would generate ad revenue for channel 4 if those tickets were sold
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