Timothy Birdnow

I grew up in St. Louis County, just outside of the City limits. St. Louis City is not a part of St. Louis county; it seceded from the county back in the 1880's,I believe (could have been the '70's) and is it's own county. (It seceded because it was vastly wealthier than the poor farm country outside of it and got tired of carrying "dead weight". Back then there were some little hick towns like Florissant and Ferguson whose main tax base were feed stores and the like.) St.Louis used to be jointly controlled by Democrats and Establishment type big business Republicans, and of course the Democrats slowly took over. The last Republican Mayor was in1948.

But the county was different. While there were many Labor Democrats there (the neighborhood I grew up in was all union folks and Democrat to the core) the Republicans held their own just like they had in the City years before. There were some very conservative areas in St.Louis County (and are today; the GOP holds a House seat in West St. Louis County, for instance) but thatis changing as white flight sees many Republicans moving out to St. Charles county and the ex-urbs, and black flight sees many Democrats moving into the suburbs. My old neighborhood is entirely black, settled by people fleeing the crime in the inner city just across the border.

So there is now a tug-of-war going on for control of the County and it's one the GOP will lose in time. That means they will lose one House seat, too. (Which is why the GOP is gerrymandering Missouri, to keep the balance of power intact. The Democrats did this same thing when THEY were in power in the state.)

That is why a measure before the St. Louis County Council to honor Charlie Kirk failed. No surprise, as the majority of the Council is Democrat. But the really infuriating thing is that one of the Republicans, the GOP nominee for County Executive, voted with the Democrats to defeat the measure.

I suppose he thought this would engender good will from the black community in St. Louis. He would suppose wrong.

He apparently didn't realize that betrayal is a career killer in politics (as in many things) and that he wasted a golden opportunity to set the record straight and to defend what Republicans believe and why we believe it. Instead he chose to pander.

My brother,who lives in St. Louis County, was going to vote for the man; no more. He's just going to not mark anyone in the race.

Being RINO does nothing to attract anyone. Never did. The power of the RINO wing was always based on their access to big funding by corporations and very wealthy men. It was always a top-down affair, and RINO'sget elected not because they offer a superior vision, or that they offer personal integrity, or competency, but because they have the money to fund lavish campaigns and to frighten many into accepting them as the "only credible option". Most Americans hold their noses and vote RINO.

Now we have a real choice and it's get on-board or go under. Sadly people like this prefer to go under, not accepting that time and tide have washed away the old politics. Republicans can no longer straddle the fence, no longer offer a Diet Coke version of Republicanism (one calorie of GOP). "Comity" is dead, because comity has been nothing but a siren's song all along to lure foolish Republicans into making compromises with the boldly leftist Demcrats (and the other leftists). We've now jut about compromised our country away. It's put up or shut up time,

Donald Trump has proven putting up works, draws people. So did Charlie Kirk, who was a mild and decent fellow but who did not back down from his Christian Conservative beliefs. Courage and taking a stand is very attractive to people. Kirk DIED for those principles, and showed America what true "tolerance" and "love" looked like; he showed the Left had neither and were willing to kill to suppress what they claimed to believe in.

People follow bold colors; nobody ever followed pastels,or at least their hearts were not in it. That is what the GOP used to be, and that is what this guy running for St. Louis County Executive wanted to return to here.

St.Louis once had two baseball teams - the Cardinals and the Browns. The Cardinals color was a bright red, the Browns a drab color indeed. The Cards were winners, thought like winners, spent money to guarantee they won. The Browns were happy to bemediocre, just have a piece of the pie. Guess which team most St. Louisans loved? Guess which one survived.

Until we purge the RINO thinking from the GOP we will continue to lose easily-winnable offices in elections. The Democrats have chosen their side and purged themselves of any and every moderate voice. We needn't purge the RINO's but we must make sure they are forever out of positions of authority in the GOP.

We'll get good start with theis guy here.

BTW I could find nothing online about this so there are no links - and no names. I just cuaght part of the story on the nightly news yesterday.

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