| Love at First Sight? |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bacsy-uwogo
Missouri Senate Claire McCaskill won the Senate Seat in 2006 following the
Republican shellacking of George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism, which
was really Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" — lite, replete with
entitlement expansions and federal government interventionism, plus two
expansive wars which exploded the country's national debt.
In 2008, McCaskill took advantage of the anti-Republican, anti-Bush backlash
washing over the country to step up and endorse an outspoken, amateurish
liberal, Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
This man had not served four years in the US Senate, and before that he had
served as a state legislator in Illinois. No promising resume there, yet to
listen to the Missouri fawn on this man is enough to make any right thinking
voter rethink letting her anywhere Washington ever again.
2006 was a fluke, a Democrat getting into the Missouri Senate delegation
simply because the Republicans were already so bad a brand, which even staunch
Republicans were calling for them to be taken off the shelf.
McCaskill had her chance to voter moderation, and instead she fell in line
with the vortex of unrepentant liberalism which inevitably turns moderate
Democrats away from the center and toward the marginal extremes of Progressive
government expansion and Constitution-evisceration. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
went down to defeat by double-digits in 2010. McCaskill will face the same
fate, pushed out of a party which no longer has any room for Moderates who care
about working class voters and support socially conservative positions. The
Democratic Party is falling under the leadership of a un-classy class warfare
political elite that wants to broaden government at the expense of the states
and the people, a line of Establishment politics which does not sit well with
Mid-Western voters.
In her early endorsement of the former community organizer, McCaskill called
Obama a "wise leader", a Chicago kid barely out of law school, a constitutional
academic who throughout his presidency has ridden rough-shod over the separation
of powers, insulting the insulated independence of the Supreme Court. This
junior senator had been in office only three plus years, ranked 99th with a
minor appointment on the Veterans Affairs committee. McCaskill, two years
behind in seniority, had no worthy insight to share. Does a major league player
fall over the praise of minor league sprat? Why would a ten year old honor the
insight of a little baby babbling away just to get something?
The latter comparison is apt all the way. McCaskill wanted to be
vice-president or achieve some higher office in Beltway politics. She like many
early supporters got absolutely nothing but the fading warmth of supporting the
first "black" president. Every day of this election, McCaskill is going
to rue the day that she stuck her neck out for an inexperienced executive whose
policies rubbed Missouri voters the wrong way from day one of his presidency.