Missouri made headway yesterday, but we aren't purple yet. Not with a Republican Governor, and Republicans holding the majority in both chambers of the state house. But what the hell? It gives us motivation for 2008. Matt Blunt will lose in 2008. In the Republican primary he will lose either to Republican State Treasurer Sarah Steelman or a wing-nut to benamed later. A wingnut would be good news for Jay Nixon, but if Steelman and Nixon face off in the general, no matter what, the citizens of Missouri win.
If Steelman wins the primary, the Democrats need to field a candidate for State Treasurer as well as Attorney General. We also need to take the congressional seats held by Roy Blunt and Sam Graves, damnit. Roy's might be up for grabs if he retires after this term in a fit of pique. He's going to lose out to Shaddeg for the Minority whip spot just like he lost Majority leader to that schmuck Boehner. People hate him. He's a vile nasty creature and if you look at a map of the United States, you will see that sending his ass to Washington is about as far away from Missouri as we can get him. Ditto Sam Graves. If we can hold the four safely blue congressional seats we now have, and barring some Republican-grade scandal we will, we only need to add one to get the tip - Missouri has nine congressional districts. Five or even six would be sweet.
Dr. Dean has a plan for us out here in still-red Missouri. For so long we were lost in the desert, then the physician husband of a nice Jewish girl led us out of the wilderness. The 50 State Strategy is the key. Howard Dean was right and Rahm Emanuel was wrong. Let's take Dr. Dean's advice and build the party that will field those successful candidates.
A mile from my house is Kansas. They gotta do something about that chief Bush enabler Pat Roberts. Keep the blue wave building and wash this asshole out of office in two years. And please, can you Wichitans in the KS-04 field an opponent for that damned Todd Tiahrt? Dan Glickman represented the KS-04 for years, until the 1994 revolt swept him out of office. I know Wichita will vote for Democrats because I have lived there when they did.
We made huge strides yesterday, but it was just the beginning. We have a lot of work left to do, and we have no laurels to rest on.
