Timothy Birdnow

Squad radical Cori Bush lost her primary race and thus her seat in the House of Representatives to St. Louis County's prosecuting attorney Wesley "Chia Pet Hair" Bell.

In the ridiculously expensive race Bell's campaign received a major boost from AIPAC, which spent $8.5 million to oust the radical Bush. The campaign was quite contentious with both sides slinging quite a bit of mud.

Don't expect Bell to be much better; he's almost as bad as is she. In fact Bell will be the greater danger because he works well with the Democrats and will show up and do what he is told. Bush was a maverick and hardly ever bothered to vote.

In other Missouri news, RINO Mike Kehoe won the state GOP primary race for Governor. Kehoe was the protege' of RINO Governor Mike Parsons, assuring more lackluster leadership in a state that could easily be the model for the rest of the country.

Kehoe, was appointed to fill Parson's seat as Lieutenant Governor when Parsons took the Governorship after Eric Greitens was forced to resign. He is heavily connected to the insiders of the Republican Establishment in the state.

It really is too bad people don't vote the issues. Bill Eigel ran a distant third in the race and he had some great policies he was advocating - like ending the Missouri income tax and state property taxes. Kehoe will be a Bush-like tax and spend "compassionate conservative" meaning no conservative at all. Nothing will change.

In Missouri there is a cabal of Republicans who run the state strictly for their own benefit. That was why Greitens was allowed to twist in the wind; he had been pushing a reform package that included a ban on gifts while in office and a five year moratorium on lobbying after leaving office. He was taking the bread from the mouths of the connected. (That he was a philanderer and something of a perv didn't help Greitens.)

Most of this cabal lives in rural areas of central Missouri. Central Missouri controls the state, despite the high population centers of the St. Louis and Kansas city metropolitan areas being heavily Democrat. The rest of the state is Republican (with exceptions like Joplin, which is the San Francisco of Missouri). So Missouri leadership is generally very rural and it tends to be RINO because a lot of the farm communities still like government subsidies.

So we had an historic chance to change that. Eigel comes from the conservative suburban St. Charles country and he was good. But he split the vote with Jay Ashcroft, former Secretary of State and son of the former Senator John Ashcroft, thus allowing Kehoe an easy path to victory.

So basically the Show-Me state has simply reshuffled the same hand. Nothing much will change.

It's a pity; with proper leadership we'd be Florida. But, despite a Republican supermajority in both houses of congress and a Republican Governor, the state can barely pass small tax cuts.

BTW we kept illegal aliens out of this state for years but Mike Parsons thinks it's his Christian duty to take as many of them as want to come. I've seen a big change in the character of the city of St. Louis since Parsons became the boss hog. Many restaurants that were Italian or American have become Mexican, for instance; the city is now lousy with Mexican restaurants (and no doubt the u.S. SBA is paying for those.) You hear Spanish much more these days in public. We can thank the insular Parsons for that; he has no idea of the problems this causes and thinks himself a good Christian by allowing foreign gangs to come here.

If we had elected Bill Eigel Missouri would be the new Florida. Eigel would have made Ron DeSantis look like a weenie. Ashcroft was more of a stodgy Reagan Republican, still good but lacking in fire. But we got Gerald Ford instead. Great.

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