Ego is a hell of a thing. It prevents people from seeing the world around them as it is. It has cost Missouri voters before and might just cost the nation now. In 2016, most polls had Eric Grietens about where he is right now. Conservatives rallied to Peter Kinder, the Lt. Governor. Rush Limbaugh, John Danforth, Dana Loesch, and others supported him. John Brunner got the Gun Owners of America vote, Mike Huckabee, and Rand Paul. Catherine Hanaway got support from Kit Bond, Ann Wagner, and Nikki Haley.
I listened to your heartbreaking description of the cowards at Uvalde and have the following question: even if the US Supreme Court blocks accountability for the police, couldn't people amend their state constitutions to require police to man up or face some consequences?
I'm a lifelong Missouri Republican. I can't vote for Greitens in the general. I have never voted for a Democrat, and am not sure I could, but I certainly won't vote for him.
Today's GOP "base" concerns me. Ronald Reagan himself probably couldn't win a Republican primary . In these post-modern, post-Christian times he would just not be crazy enough.
And as a Missourian, this frustrates me in the extreme. This same sort of stubbornness and lack of cooperation within the party is what gave us McCaskill too. Missouri republican politicians and voters need to get their act together.,
I listened to your heartbreaking description of the cowards at Uvalde and have the following question: even if the US Supreme Court blocks accountability for the police, couldn't people amend their state constitutions to require police to man up or face some consequences?
I concur. Yikes, that would be a disaster for MO.
I'm a lifelong Missouri Republican. I can't vote for Greitens in the general. I have never voted for a Democrat, and am not sure I could, but I certainly won't vote for him.
Today's GOP "base" concerns me. Ronald Reagan himself probably couldn't win a Republican primary . In these post-modern, post-Christian times he would just not be crazy enough.
And as a Missourian, this frustrates me in the extreme. This same sort of stubbornness and lack of cooperation within the party is what gave us McCaskill too. Missouri republican politicians and voters need to get their act together.,