Knapp and R Walsh do you realized you are dealing with a pschyo??

His 1991 car has bumper stickers from top to bottom and he posts religiously to this blog and is a selfish egotistical DISRESPECTFUL PIG!!

Why doesn’t the Post report on all his earlier threats on taking his life and his major depression episodes and hospital stays–do you really want the citizens of missouri represented by a half-baked schizophrenic whose life ambition is to greet hoosiers at Wal mart?

He doesn’t even have a pot to pea in.

Althought I might not articulate myself the best I have noticed in previous posts that other people do agree with me. The Democratic party should be ashamed of themselves for not putting more energy into this race. Instead the media and the party ignored this race and now they have to deal with Bill Haas, the last one of the possible candidates they probably wanted to deal with.

I am a lifelong Democrat, but will sit out of this race because if Bill Haas feels that putting up random yard signs helps his cause then good for him, but in reality it is about connecting with the voters and being able to take down an incumbent–a garuntee I will make that Bill Haas will be unable to do any of that. The Democrats should just forfeit this race and save money for other more important races.

As a Democrat the only way we can undo this ungrateful wrong is by voting for Todd as I plan to do!

Bill H cannot even write a blog without inserting slashes at the end of each sentence. The lonely old maid who lives in a 300 square foot apt with his 15 cats needs to move on !

I guess he had the gay vote.

If I see that frog face one more time, I’m moving out of this screwed up city called St. Louis!

How can someone who was FIRED FROM WAL-MART legitimately run for Congress??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Ah Scott, as you can see I am not alone in being approached by this sad old man. I will tell you this, however. I was a fellow employee for about 2 years, a portion of which he was one of my direct managers. There are few people on this earth who I feel threatened by if I was in a room alone with, even under a menial or benign circumstance, but this guy takes the cake. I don’t trust his personal ethics, so how can I trust his decisions in congress for the district?

A lot of us are upset, and rightly so, about this character representing the Democrats in the 2nd Congressional District. Isn’t there something we can do, like formal petitioning, to get this guy off the ballot in November. Somebody ought to have the guts to investigate exactly why Bill Haas got 9,000 votes. St. Louis voters know him and didn’t vote for him. Attn: St. Charles voters! Did you simply recognize his name on the ballot and have no idea about his background? Or, was there a KarlRovian effort to get this guy the nomination via cross over votes? Anybody have any thoughts on this?

Are there really 13,000 + ignorant democratic voters out there? That is 43% of the vote count! Combining both Hogan’s and Haas’ votes. Don’t forget George “Boots” Webber was nominated last term. And we were represented by night auditor, US space dominance Hogan the term before that. They did seem to get dumber the further away from St. Louis they lived.

Let’s get that goofball removed immediately!!!

Maybe he should halt the HWY 40 reconstruction again.

WE DON’T NEED BOZO THE CLOWN IN CONGRESS!!

GO TODD, GO!!

Kent,

I knew I was dealing with an eccentric, which didn’t bother me (hey, I’m a third party candidate, so I’m by definition eccentric myself).

The accounts which portray him as a “psycho,” on the other hand, are new to me … and although I’m a blogosphere kind of guy, I’m also inclined to wait for real investigative journalism before just accepting them as fact.

I disagree with Trent that the alternative to Bill Haas is Todd Akin, though.

Voting for the four-term incumbent Republican sends no message at all except “I’m happy with the four-term Republican incumbent.”

If you can’t stomach your own party’s nominee and want to send a “get serious” message to your party, but DON’T want to vote in a way that ratifies the Republican Party’s misrule, I’d like to think that my candidacy is worth at least a look from you.

I’m not going to try to pretend that I’m a Democrat, but that’s where my roots are.

I cast my first presidential vote in 1988, for Michael Dukakis.

I left the Libertarian Party for a year in 2005 to work with the Democratic Freedom Caucus instead.

I oppose the war on Iraq.

I support same-sex marriage.

I oppose giving away ANWR as corporate welfare.

My tax-cutting proposals are “bottom up” proposals to lift the burden from the shoulders of the poorest Americans first — increasing the personal exemption and applying that exemption to the regressive Social Security tax, rather than top rate, capital gains, and other “top down” cuts.

I realize that some Democrats simply won’t be able to support me on principle, and that’s okay. Since I know that I won’t win this election under any foreseeable circumstance, I feel no pressure to pander or equivocate in an attempt to do so.

That doesn’t mean that I won’t attempt to appeal to “usually Democratic” voters, or even Democrat regulars, though. I’m going to emphasize the positions in my policy arsenal that appeal to the voters whom I consider most likely to consider me an option.

Until Tuesday, I had assumed that those voters would be disaffected Republicans. I thought that the Democrats would nominate Pentland or DeLear and that my job would be to take as much as possible out of Akin’s hide from “the right” and give the Democrats a chance to make this a competitive race.

Frankly, that was a bummer for me, and I was having a hard time doing it. I lean visibly — and honestly — “left.” I rather, um, suspected that I wasn’t appealing well to Republican voters by supporting Representative Kucinich’s impeachment articles, calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, supporting marriage equality and buying carbon offsets for my campaign.

Now it looks like I’ve been doing the right things after all — I’ve just been pitching them to the wrong audience. If Bill Haas distresses you that much, then help him come in third in November, behind Todd Akin and myself. THAT is the best way to send a message to the Democratic Party’s leaders in the area that they need to get serious about candidate recruitment and contest the 2nd.

Best regards,
Tom Knapp
Libertarian for US House