Olivo is going to win this hands down. This is an outsiders year and Luetekewhatever and boob onder are insdiers.

Go Brock go!

As a Democrat, I could root for Mr. “Never Voted” Olivo to be the nominee. However, how sad if this guy with no experience and no prior interest in political behavior (including voting) would the a major party’s nominee. Especially when there are experienced legislators like Onder and Luetkemeyer in the race.

Suzy none of your points ever seem to be an issue when a candidate has the right last name. Many with little to no experience get the nod when they have the name.

Brock stole an inflatable Budweiser Frog from my house while we were both at Mizzou. Plus he didn’t drink in college. I would never vote for a thief or a guy who didn’t drink at least a few beers in college.

I’m with you, if you went to college and didn’t have at least one beer, you are can’t possibly be experienced enough to run for congress. Hell that place is full of drunks, liars, and womanizers and that’s just the Kennedys.

Perhaps none of you have seen the interview Olivo did with a Columbia Tribune reporter, where he did not know what he was talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2MBByGJ454

Do you really want a guy in office, making national decisions about war, social security and your livelihood, who 1)have NEVER voted and 2)has no idea what he is doing?

Come on, people. It’s the year of the Democrats. Be real.

Amazed, Say what you will, but at least I have my own points. Not just posts that belittle others’ posts.

I thought it was general consensus that Olivo counldn’t be elected dog catcher after admitting his political unawareness. Oh well, so much the easier for the democratic candidate.

Just to give Olivo the benefit of the doubt. I did check out his website to see what his stance on the issues of the day would be. Some were conflicting, some were straight out of the GOP playbook (meaning nothing new). However, I must say that it was eye-brow raising that he spent more space/words talking about his background as a football player than on the issues. That spoke volumes!

Suzy I was just pointing out to you that BOTH parties have fielded shallow candidates with NO qualifications and many have won. Case in point is Ryan McKenna on the state level. I know Ryan fairly well. He was 24 or 25, little or no direction and absolutely NO political experience. Daddy pulled a few strings and Bhammo!! dude’s a state rep. To cap it off, the dems chose Ryan over Kent Duniphan, a retired teacher from the Fox district with 30 years of real world experience on Ryan.

So to sum it up, don’t act like this is a Republican issue when you say, “How sad if this guy….would be the nominee.” It’s pretty damn sad all the way around when an inexperienced, dimwit or an American Idolesque candidate gets the nod.

State Rep is where these guys should get experience. Not starting off in the big show (Congress).

BTW, Amazed, you are a champ at putting words (and meaning) into people’s mouth.

I never said or implied this was a Republican issue. In fact, I stated “a major party”, meaning it would be the same with either party that would nominate someone lacking such credentials.

I really enjoyed the response where the person asked do we really want someone running for office that doesn’t know what he is doing or talking about? How do you think G W got elected?
Since when do you have to know what you’re talking about to be a elected? Just say you’re for lower taxes (even if you don’t have any money to pay for anything) and you believe in Missouri/family values (even if it means splitting up families or denying essential medical care to children who have no voice in how our government makes its decisions) and you can get elected, mabe even become President. Isn’t this a great country?

Oh, I forgot. The Busch legacy, an 8 trillion (with a “T”) debt. But we have tax cuts. So who says you have to know how to do or say anything?

“As a Democrat, I could root for Mr. “Never Voted” Olivo to be the nominee. However, how sad if this guy with no experience and no prior interest in political behavior (including voting) would the a major party’s nominee. Especially when there are experienced legislators like Onder and Luetkemeyer in the race.”…..Suzyjax

take your pick Suze, it was either “the” major party or “a” major party. Your last sentence where you state “Especially when there are experienced legislators like Onder(R) and Luektemeyer(R) in the race” would definitely give readers the idea of exactly which party your were talking about. Don’t crawdad, you know that you were referring to the “sad” state of the Republican party, especially in this particular race.