| Love at First Sight? |
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.
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