I hope you're correct about the second Amendment, but I have seen no evidence of his "brilliance". Was getting his butt kicked for the Senate, then couldn't cover against the dead guy's wife. All the evidence to me since shows quite the contrary.
Was getting his butt kicked for the Senate, then couldn't cover against the dead guy's wife. He was leading Gov. Carnahan at the time of the plane crash. The sympathy vote was VERY real. It made it nearly impossible for him to attack anything about her.
And don't forget the vote fraud in democratic areas.
I think part of why he became AG is because the fraud in Missouri was so evident.