Republican candidate for Congress from the 9th district, Bob Onder also announced his second TV AD today. What did he say? NOTHING!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJJTeUMrig

Onder lives in Lake St. Louis but his ad has him putting gas in his truck in a very rural area…….Lake St. Louis is anything but rural. This one issue candidate actually had the gall to say that Washington is broken…and he has a plan to fix it. So what’s the plan Bob?
Same one you and Jetton had to fix Jefferson City?

Citizens are tired of BS and want substance. So if you have a plan to fix DC, tell us. And how about a plan to fix our economy so those of us who don’t live in Lake St. Louis can afford to put gas in our cars and trucks and buy food for our families….in the same week. Substance Bob. We are not stupid and will NOT vote for you because you have a secret plan to fix anything. You’ve shown us how you work and we are NOT impressed in the least.

Heck, he thought so little of us….his house constituents, he didn’t even finish his first term in the Missouri house before running for a higher office.

Why did he support Ashcroft, Blunt and Bush? Why did he vote for photo id? Why did he vote for the medicaid cuts?

Well Jenny, I believe it was his campaign consultant who called him a good Republican who did what he was told.

JEFF HARRIS HAS NO EXPERIENCE. HE HAS NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO SPEAK ABOUT SO HE ATTACKS KOSTER…BTW is this ad on real life TV or just on his web site<

8 months! Only 8 months!! I have written time and time again about the lack of experience Jeff Harris has vs Koster. I never had any idea how little experience Harris really had until now.

Did you know that when Jeff Harris served as an Assistant Attorney General it was ONLY FOR 8 MONTHS. This is all he talks about and he only held the job for 8 months.

For heavens sake, what kind of experience does he think he got in only 8 months. Did he take any vacation days? Did he catch a cold and stay home for a couple of days? Maybe he really only has 7 and a half months of experience as an Asst AG.

I have interns in my office that have 6 months stints. Was Harris really an just an intern? That might make a little more sense.

For crying out loud, who holds a job for 8 months and then brags about how much “experience” they earned. Most people don’t even put a job on their resume if they don’t stick with it for at least a year.

I think Paris Hilton was in jail for longer then Harris worked as an Asst AG.

Why would anyone ever elect a guy to be AG that could not even put forth an honest effort when he took a job as an Assistant AG. Why would anyone elect a guy that had such little interest in the AG’s office that he quit inside of a year of being hired. Harris accuses everyone else of being political opportunist and using this election as a stepping stone to the governor’s mansion. What did he do? Serving ONLY 8 MONTHS!! Was Harris padding his resume?

Harris’ slogan is “Real Democrat, Real Experience”. Real experience, my foot. I bet 99% of the people working currently as an Asst AG have more experience then Harris.

I must admit that when I have blogged in the past about Harris’ lack of experience, I had no idea he held the Asst AG job for such a short amount of time. Talk about exaggerating his experience. I thought when I would say “Koster has 10 times the experience of Harris”, I was using poetic license and that I was exaggerating a bit. Little did I realize that Koster really has 15 times the experience of Harris.

Think about it, Harris started his job. It probably took him 2 or 3 months to get to know everyone, figure out where the bathroom was and get worked into the equation. After that, he worked, at most, for 2 or 3 months before starting to think about quiting. He barely started, and he quit (we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not get pushed out). For God sake, isn’t it kinda normal to call somebody “the new guy” until they have been there at least a year? Harris was still “the new guy” when he quit And now he wants people to believe that in this short 8 MONTH stint he somehow generated some huge amount of experience….please.

Does Harris have any other experience we should know about now that the whole Asst AG thing is kinda not all that impressive.

Sorry Jeff, experience is not something you can not just say you have. You actually have to work at it. And just a little more advice, it typically takes more then 8 months to gain truly valuable experience (i.e. knowing more then just where the bathroom is)

You know, Longfellow deeds happens to be played by an actor named Adam Sandler. I find him quite funny. Your poor attempt to imitate what is otherwise known as good humor is not funny.

And for everyone’s sake, please stop posting the same thing on every page that refers to your boy Chris Koster. We get it, you support him and aren’t original. Enough.

Once again, nothing but waaaah, waaah, waaah from Harris. Has he (or Donnelly for that matter) anything to say other than to whine that Koster used to be a Republican? Koster’s direct experience in law enforcement and his legislative experience blows both of them away. Party is a secondary consideration for the average person including the average Democrat. Koster is now a Democrat and that’s what is important with respect to party. The other two are handing the race to Koster by doing nothing but carping about Koster not being a Democrat long enough to suit them.

LongTimeD…thought you might enjoy the following quotes.

“I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.”
—George Washington

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
—Thomas Jefferson

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, it to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
—John Adams

“We stand in the presence of an awakened nation, impatient of partisan make-believe.”
—Woodrow Wilson

“The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Partisanship must end at the waters edge.”
—Harry S. Truman

This “above politics” nonsense from Koster’s camp is such horsepuckey. The guy was the GOP Conference Chair in the Senate. He recruited Republican candidates to run for the Senate. He appeared in a TV ad for John Ashcroft. He campaigned with Dick Cheney.

Could there be anything more cynical than a partisan politician claiming to be non-partisan?

Oh, and if you think Harry Truman would like you using his words to defend a candidate who cut health care for the neediest and tried to suppress the vote among minorities and seniors, then you really don’t know anything about what it means to be a Democrat.

The fact is, Chris Koster has to answer for his record. If he can do that, then more power to him. But until he does, no amount of money will buy him the nomination.

I don’t know what is more offensive in these comments: the assertion that Koster’s past record as a Republican shouldn’t matter in a *Democratic* primary, or the fact that the film Mr. Deeds was referred to as “good humor.”