Negative campaigning in a primary … it’s what a desperate, losing candidate does.

Very sad comment on the state of the Steelman campaign…she is always invoking Ronald Reagan’s name, so why isn’t she living to his 11th Commandment, thou shalt not speak poorly of a fellow Republican? Guess this is James Harris’ and Jeff Roe’s first negative thrust in what will be a dirty Steelman campaign.

OK, I have a dumb question. Why is it negative campaigning to bring up issues relevant to your opponent? Who is going to bring up a candidate’s legitimate negatives if not his opponent?

Surely you don’t expect Hulshof to tell us all about his bad votes, missed votes and pork excesses, do you?

I don’t think it is negative unless it gets personal. A congressional record is certainly fair game.

I totally agree with you negative Nelly.

How is it negative to bring up what you feel are your opponents negative votes. That’s not the dirty politics that so many of us have grown to hate.

Christopher “Kit” Bond, and U.S. Reps. Todd Akin, Roy Blunt, Sam Graves and Jo Ann Emerson are way out of line.

I am off the fence now. I will vote for Steelman if she runs as an Independent. She is worthy of being Governor of Missouri and is needed, but would suffer as a Republican in office and so would Missouri.

Otherwise, I must cast my vote for Jeff Harris.

I wouldn’t vote for Steelman in a hundred years because I don’t agree with her strident, even radical conservatism.

Having said that, however, from a purely nuetral standpoint you have to admire her willingness to be aggressive and get straight to the point. I don’t think this ad is at all unfair. She’s simply trying to establish that she is the true conservative candidate in the race and she’s doing it in a very hard-hitting, effective way. Naturally, the Hulshof crowd won’t like that. But that’s politics.

Obviously these other bloggers are all political acolytes and their attitudes are what is spelling the death of the Republican party. Everyone knows that Washington D.C. is broken. There is a culture of corruption fed by earmarks, pork barrell spending, and the cowardice of our congressmen, including Kenny Hulshof. Sarah Steelman is being treated like evey republican who has tried to return the party to its beliefs. Kit Bond, and his retinue, acted the same way to John McCain, before he won, and Jeff Flake, the couragous congressman who, unlike get along go along Kenny, offered amendments to remove wasteful earmarks, and Tom Coburn, the conservative Senator from Oklahoma. Either Sarah Steelman will win the primary and send Congress a message, or we will continue to spend and spend and spend until gasoline is $8.00 a gallon, nobody can afford a gallon of milk, and the only people with money will be the lobbyists and lawyers

What a bunch of crybabies in Kenny’s camp. His votes could be research by a 10 year old with DSL. Just more proof that Kenny has no chance vs. Nixon in Nov. HIs ads will be this times 10. Sarah really is the GOP’s only hope. Plus, Nixon will parade the list of Kenny’s Blunt staffers that are on his payroll. I love the Gov., but in this game perception is reality.