I am really enjoying the discussion and am glad that you want to hear more from me.

Let’s start with McCaskill. I am going to be very direct. An auditor is hardly the most politically charged position. When I gave her the money, the Republicans had no candidate, and had said that the auditor’s race was not a priority, and eventually rejected Jay Kanzler– a very nice guy– in favor of a felon. I gave McCaskill some money when the Republicans weren’t offering any credible candidate. I am not going to apologize for that, and if that alone is enough for you to ignore the main reason I am thinking about running ( i.e. the Obama onslaught on free enterprise, the massive $20 trillion debt he wants, the $1 trillion in new taxes, the sale of our country to China, and a foreign policy based on weakness and apologies) well then you probably shouldn’t support me. I have heard of one-issue voting, but that would be a bit ridiculous. I have a lot to offer conservatives– just read my book Crashproof Your Life– which, in 2002-3, warned of fiscal irresponsibility and its consequences, when a lot of people and government officials– including all Democrats and some Republicans in Congress– were spending our way into oblivion.

My main objective– if I ran — would be to reassert fiscal responsibility, states’ rights, and a more credible foreign policy. I would be the anti-Obama in that regard.

If I run, you will over time learn my views on all the other issues. I will tell you right now, you won’t like all of what I will have to say. But I think we will have enough in common that you will come to the conclusion that I would make a good senator.

I hope, at the very least, that you can respect someone who calls them like he sees them– no packaging, no handlers, no special interests– and who has a burning desire to keep this country great.

Tom

I am still puzzled by your monetary support of a Democrat. If I don’t like a GOP candidate, I certainly don’t subsidize the other side. At most, in an extreme case I might vote for the Dem, as I did in IL years ago when George Ryan was running for Governor (it was obvious to me at the time that he was a crook, and my perception was correct). But the Democrats will never get a penny of my money.

I would be happy to hear your positions on the key issues. As someone who is being supported by an RMSP board member, you will be under a particularly strong microscope here at Redstate, as that particular GOP faction is not too popular in these parts. Again, I find Danforth’s position on Christian conservatives borderline offensive, and I hope you do not share those positions.

I urge you to look long and hard at the need to run against Blunt. The last thing the GOP needs is a primary race that takes the focus off of Robin Carnahan.

As a registered Redstate member, you are free to post your own diaries. If you do so, please send an email to contact@redstate.com and ask it to be forwarded to me. I want to make sure I don’t miss your contributions.

Kit Bond is not a name I would drop around me, however. Since he announced he was not running, he has voted more like a democrat than a Republican. As a matter of fact, I went through (or more accurately – am going through) a period of real discouragement due to the impression that he has been a wolf in sheeps clothing. No wonder we can’t get our agenda moved with Rs who are nothing but a facade.

As for the felon running against McCaskill, I remember that horrible thing. He was first on the ballot in the primary, and even though we had a very good candidate, we had enough morons who show up and vote with no information whatsoever that he won. The entire R apparatus supported McCaskill in the General. Why in the world anyone would vote for a candidate based on ballot position, I’ll never understand, but it danged sure happened.

I might add that I am not religious BUT I STRONGLY support our brethern in the Religious Right of our party because they are the moral leg of our stool and suffice it to say Tom that without one of the three legs WE are not a party at all! What is your position on the Religious Right? Where do you stand on the FisCon portion of our party and to me personally what is your position on the NeoCon….again Tom the bottom line is we are a THREE LEGGED stool and anyone of those legs NOT present makes the stool wobbly and probable to break!

I look forward to your comments to my question and it is a smart move to engage the grassroots of the party anytime, anywhere and I respect you for it.

WE need people who show no fear in the face of the libral onslaught that has been perpetrated on our wonderful country!

1- I have supported Jim Talent in every election he has run in, and cosponsored a fundraiser for him when he was running for Congress.

2- I believe it was when I was 11 years old, in 1972, that I walked into the the Bond for Governor campaign office and volunteered to stuff envelopes. I have voted for Kit in every election since I could vote– and supported him financially. He represented a new and exciting force in Republican politics, which is what we badly need right now.

3- I did give $500 to McCaskill when she was running for auditor in 2002. That year, the Republican party could not field a credible candidate and, I believe, eventually settled on a convicted felon as the nominee. While I am reliably Republican, our candidate must pass the laugh test first.

4- I supported Talent over McCaskill in the Senate race– hands down– and have been very displeased with McCaskill’s blind support of the Obama agenda– which, if I run, is what I plan to run against.

5- I have also made contributions to John McCain.

6- George W. Bush appointed me to political posts three times.

7- At this early stage, few of you have any idea what my views are on the key issues, but I predict most of you will be supporting me should I decide to run. To give you a hint: I was the state departments senior and second ranking international law enforcement official. I fought terrorism, drugs, organized crime, and corruption from the jungles of Colombia to the mountains of Afghanistan. I grew up in a family with guns, and I have always been pro-life. I have spent time in DC but have never even been to a meeting on K street.

Let’s keep talking. I am looking forward to meeting you.

Respectfully,

Tom Schweich

Danforth lost any respect I may otherwise have had for him when he supported Amendment 2. He belied his true beliefs, and they aren’t conservative.

McCaskill-light won’t unseat the incumbent.

What I don’t know is if the RMSP types truly see conservatism as the enemy of the state, if they just are focused on their pet bogeymen that they have lost perspective as to the large trends, if they don’t see the rise of the totalitarian left taking over the Democratic party that wants to change the rules of the game – or in plain denial of this, if they’re plain cowards who want to go with the flow so that they get their piece of a** in return for acquiescence, if they have just lost their moral ability to discern evil.

Not good

1. Any relationship between the “Republican Party” and the people involved with the RMSP is an accident and will soon be rectified. They were founded to work with Democrats to stop the Gingrich Revolution in ’94 and they’ve been working in the same vein since. The RMSP is a blight on civilization and no one who has had anything to do with them who is not in a full “forgive-me-I-was-an-idiot” mode should be cast off.

2. There is even less relationship between the Episcopal Church (and that would be the “Brit Part” that Danforth belongs to) and Christianity is an even bigger accident.

Other than that, good diary.

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