Sarah Steelman, if she wins the republican primary, will be running against Claire McCaskill. Steelman has been running for, and losing, one election after another, for at least 6 years. The Chamber of Commerce is running ads which feature attacks against Steelman (R) and McCaskill (D) in the same ad! They are backing Steelman’s republican primary opponent, Brunner, a really smarmy little character. Ham Rove’s PAC has been running daily attack ads against Claire for TWO YEARS(!) during the evening news. I almost have the script committed to memory. Somebody really doesn’t like Claire.

Missouri politics might get really ugly this week, in the run-up to the Republican primaries. I heard a great radio interview with the R candidates for Lt. Governor…I swear, if they had been in the same room, blows would have been exchanged. There is a great Missouri politics website, called Fired Up Missouri, I think. Funny stuff, there. I will look for a link.

I figured out today while traveling to and from Ozark, Mo to Ava, Mo that Ms. Steelman appears to have a nasty demeanor about her. Her “the status quo has got to go” really is getting old with me…she says it in her commercials on TV. The one rule in marketing is if people like you, they will buy from you…..well, I’m not buying it! Keep talking Ms. Palin and really you are not the Governor and it just looks & sounds stupid…. and ditch those ugly cowgirl boots!