Chaos in the Missouri GOP is propelling Claire McCaskill one more time

Kansas City Star ^ | 5/18/18 | Steve Kraske

[DoodleDawg]

When Sen. Claire McCaskill looks through her looking glass these days, what does she see? ▪ A Republican governor in her home state who declared “a great victory” after a felony invasion-of-privacy charge was dropped — but who still faces possible impeachment. ▪ Gov. Eric Greitens’ allies attacking Attorney General Josh Hawley, who’s McCaskill’s likely rival this fall in the U.S. Senate race. Their beef: Hawley’s investigating — who else? — the scandal-prone governor from his own party. ▪ Rule-of-law conservatives sticking up for Greitens despite felony charges and a swirl of other allegations that multiply by the day. “We want to see Greitens stay in there,” Mike Buehler, the Vernon County clerk, told The Star. “He admitted his wrongdoing, so why do they keep going after him?” ▪ She sees a publisher booted out of the press corps for handing an anti-Greitens lawyer $50,000 in cash and national newspapers reporting that power in the Show-Me State “is often wielded in secret, and often with cash.”

In short, McCaskill sees the best friend she can have in politics these days, and that’s the ongoing, undeniable presence of GOP chaos.

[Toadman]

I suffer cognitive dissonance over Greitens. In the Teams he was pariah. A turd. Not even qualified to be an FNG.

He gets out after obligated service then rides SEAL “celebertyness” to fame.

To me, he’s a dishonest man with no morals. If I lived in Mississippi during the gubernatorial election, I’d have a hard time voting for him (the choice of lesser evils).