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.