Posted on 08/26/2006 3:17:58 PM PDT by FreeKeys
WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- Sen. Jim Talent is not responsible for $3-a-gallon gas or the Iraq war, but many voters here are linking him to an unpopular commander in chief and say they will punish him at the polls because he is a Republican.
Mr. Talent faces a significant re-election challenge in November, with Democratic state Auditor Claire McCaskill essentially running even with him in the polls. Voters in the increasingly frustrated electorate here, especially in economically challenged rural Missouri, say they likely will seek a change, even though they may disagree with the Democrats.
Most voters interviewed said life "could be better, could be worse," in the words of one, but all said they were mostly unhappy with the direction of the nation. They also described themselves as skeptical or cynics, saying once Missouri politicians leave the state, they lose touch with real folks.
"It seems like once people get up there, they forget about where they came from," said Dick Wilbers ... After observing Mr. Talent earlier this month at the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair, he said he is likely to base his vote on the price of gas come Nov. 7.
Mr. Talent, who won his Senate seat in a 2002 special election, is in tune with that sentiment. "This is an election where they sense that the Washington establishment is alienated from them, and they are right," he said. "They want people who will move that establishment. The question is: Are you going to make the system work for their values and their interests?"
Mrs. McCaskill, who is backed by former President Bill Clinton, said voters are more concerned about gas prices and think politicians would rather help big corporations than the working man.
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Didn't they elect a corpse to the Senate a few years ago?
LOL, and Talent has control over the price of gas how?? You mean to tell me this idiot will vote for a Democrat who comes from the party that is largely responsible for gas prices being so high with the Clinton era cleaning burning fuel mandates that created 30 different fuel blends, Democrats who regulated refinery building out of existence decades ago and Democrats who constantly resist drilling in ANWR and increasing domestic production elsewhere??? Sure idiot, vote for Bill Clinton's candidate, McCaskill, the same Bill Clinton who vetoed ANWR drilling in 1996 which if he had not the price of gas would be 50 cents a gallon cheaper now.
God, if this is the kind of idiocy out there in the country right now, I give up. Voting based on the price of gas, and for the party which would weaken us in the war on terror. Brilliant. People like this dummy shouldn't even be allowed to vote.
"I'm just posting it to see if we can come up with some good ideas for Jim Talent's campaign anyway."
Ban m-fund, hedge fund, and indexed investing in the oil futures market.
IMHO, the real reason she's competitive is that she's running as a
"tougher-than-Talent" anti-illegal immigration Democrat.
Purely Clintonian. And might sucker enough of the mushy-middle to win.
Cool. In the last two weeks the price of gas here outside of KC has gone fron 2.89 two weeks ago to 2.64 today
You may have seen this interview of McCaskill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9_S59KgT8
I think the rats are getting very nervous...they are going to be useing the MSM and anything else they can get their hands on to try and swing the voters their way....we just have to read between the lines....
Don't believe everything you read.....
Hmmmm. I don't think if Talent said it that too many people would understand it. They might even think he was trying to be an effete snob, talking over their heads.
How about if he said something like Thomas Sowell did -- (See: "Those who supply oil are being denounced and demonized by those who have been blocking the supply of oil." HERE-and HERE)....or like Ben Stein did: "The oil companies do not come even remotely close to setting the price of oil and gasoline. ... The largest oil company in the U.S. (a piker compared with many foreign companies) controls less than 3 percent of the world's oil. Does that offer a clue on how prices get set?" -- Ben Stein
The major problem with punishing Republicans in this election, is that there is no viable alternative. Dem'crats are even MORE venal when they get into office, and whatever they are representing, it is certainly not the interests of the majority of Americans, whether it be the best interests, or blatant self-interests, of their constituents.
For the Dem'crat officeholders themselves, they make the very best they can of their opportunities to maximize personal gain and perpetuating themselves in office. That means pandering to the big-money interests even more shamelessly than some of the more liberal Republicans, at the expense of the people who elected them in the first place.
An elected official who is on the take has totally abandoned whatever claim he (or she) may have had for EVER being considered a conservative. So by definition, the acceptance of bribes in exchange for political favor becomes the default liberal position.
It is pretty much up to liberals to prove this is not so. "Principled" and "liberal" just do not come in the same breath. And can no longer be applied to a single individual, certainly not within the Dem'crat party.
Here, too, in North Saint Louis County..
It does get rather depressing when you look at large cross-sections of the electorate, doesn't it? I wonder if even, God forbid, a nuclear attack on American soil would wake up some of these idiots. They would blame Bush and America for bringing it on themselves.
Had seen that.
Found this on Wikipedia:
McCaskill was previously married to David Exposito, with whom she had three children. The couple divorced in 1995, barely one year after Exposito was arrested on a Kansas City-area gambling boat for possession of marijuana. The incident and subsequent divorce occurred while McCaskill was Jackson County Prosecutor. Exposito was found murdered in Kansas City, Kansas on December 12, 2005; although no arrests have been made, prosecutors believe that the murder was drug-related.
Remembered that and I think there was something about a shady deal of his involving a golf driving range.
Stay strong bro. MSM flysheets like this article serve two propaganda purposes; to boost the Dems hopes and to suppress Republican turnout. Don't buy into it.
History—In the 2004 state elections in California we had four state wide propositions that had a 67% favorable rating when they first came out. Then the democrats started the lies in their advertising. The lies were incredible that I thought, “No will ever believe these lies” but they did and all four propositions lost by about 60 %. The democrats learned a lot from that election and we will face the same thing from now on forward
I'm not sure just what the purpose of the article is but I know that the price of gas IS NOT what I'm basing my vote FOR Talent on. I'm basing it on McCaskill running lockstep with the morons in her party. If given the chance, since she's decided she needs to spend more time in my part of the state, I'll tell her exactly that!
Yes, but people then had to live with the results and did that not change their minds? It will eventually.
Three people who shouldn't be writing about the current oil markets. India's demand has declined. China not much change.
Over the last two years money-market managers, etc. have parked money in commodity futures. This is a new phenomenon, creating a price increase that may be permanent.
I read a while back about a couple of Repubs congressmen talking about raising margins on oil futures, I don't know if this will work in world exchanges. We need to cut off the source of money distorting the market.
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