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Missouri GOP Senate Candidate Brunner Slams Sarah Palin For Rhetoric And “Cross-hairs” Map

By: rightwingnut2 (Diary)  |  May 9th, 2012 at 11:11 PM  | 

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Apparently, Missouri GOP Senate candidate, John Brunner isn’t counting on support from the grass-roots of the party in advance of the August primary election. In a radio interview with Dana Loesch, he was asked how he felt about Sarah Palin’s use of the word, “reload” and her utilization of the “cross-hairs” map, which targeted congressional Democrats for defeat in the November 2010 elections. I find his response less than inspiring.

“I look at these things and you look back and you think, oh, for crying out loud. You know what happens when you go to that level? You get everybody off message and when you get people off message, we have conservatives lose. If you choose your words a little bit more carefully….”

He expanded on that a bit. The exchange begins at the 4:37 mark.

Dan Riehl isn’t impressed either. Here’s a sample of his thoughts, via Big Government.

….That Brunner would double down with Loesch and throw Sarah Palin under the bus along with other Constitutional conservatives does not speak well for him. If this is representative of Brunner’s depth of commitment to the constitutional principles he mouths, he’ll likely be far too worried about how he’ll play on the TV talk show circuit to do stand up to the Left. Such conservatives need to be thrown out of Washington, not sent there.

I’m not very familiar with this particular race at this point, but I’ll be taking a hard look at both Todd Akin and Sarah Steelman. Brunner just torpedoed his chances of earning my support.

Read the rest of Riehl’s piece here

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  • gravelyvoicejim

    I suggest you not only familiarize yourself with the Missouri Republican primary race, but the dynamics between the various Missouri conservative grass-roots groups and their leaderships as well before making judgements on any of the three candidates. Brunner is a political novice who is trying to make a difference as an ordinary citizen. He’s NOT a polished establishment career politician, and he merely committed a verbal misstep in the way he framed his call for civility.

    Could he have done it better or differently? Yes. But before casting judgement on him I suggest you determine where the allegiances of Ms. Loesch and Mr. Boston lie within the Missouri conservative grass-roots, which is anything BUT monolithic with regard to the candidates supported by the individuals and groups (this is a GOOD thing, actually).

    I also suggest looking into Akin’s 2011 voting record. If you take the time to do so you will discover that unlike Flake, Bachmann, King, and other conservatives, Akin voted for EACH AND EVERY CR and House procedural vote in 2011 that ended up funding Obamacare and Planned Parenthood through September 2012 while raising our debt by another $1T, something neither John Brunner nor Sarah Steelman are guilty of:

    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll154.xml
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll177.xml
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll247.xml
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll268.xml
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll719.xml
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll727.xml
    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll943.xml

    What’s also a little curious here is how Dana, at near light speed, was so quick to publicly skewer Brunner for his statement regarding the “Claire Bear” incident and to pooh-pooh Steelman’s endorsement from the National Tea Party earlier, but she has NEVER to my knowledge called Akin on the carpet for his Obamacare funding votes – votes which actually have cost us money and eroded our liberties, unlike Brunner’s comments or Steelman’s endorsement. Maybe all the noise she is making is due to her allegiance to Akin, the only entrenched DC establishment politician of the three running in the Republican primary; or maybe not. But it’s certainly worth looking into before drawing any conclusions.

    • http://www.rightspeak.net/search/label/-Right%20Wingnut rightwingnut2

      You may chalk this up to Brunner being a “political novice,” but I’m not sure that’s what is needed to take that seat back. I could see Loesch’s trap coming from a mile away. He’s clearly written off the tea party, and is trying to court the “establishment” voters.

      • Flagstaff

        Why would anybody say something like what he supposedly said?

        This is a comment guaranteed to turn off the people he needs to vote for him. It also says a lot about his decision-making process. This man should simply drop out and go home.

        • http://www.rightspeak.net/search/label/-Right%20Wingnut rightwingnut2

          …in this diary. Listen to the entire 11 minute interview. He called out a local tea party member for “inflammatory rhetoric,” without cause. He didn’t even try to walk it back in this interview.

  • gravelyvoicejim

    I’ll repeat myself here about familiarizing yourself with the inner-workings of Missouri conservative politics:

    McCaskill is toast in Missouri regardless of who her opponent will be. Moderates, independents, and even some liberals are fed up with her antics. The anti-Obamacare Prop C ballot initiative passed with 71% of the vote 2 years ago and simple math told us that to get that large of a majority at least a quarter of the DEMOCRATS who voted in that election had to vote for it.

    Loesch actually parted ways with the St. Louis Tea Party months ago, so her support or lack there of is meaningless with regard to tea party sentiment around the state. Brunner in fact HAS the support of SEVERAL prominent grass-roots groups and individuals who have been involved in the tea party movement the past 4 years, several of whom were once supporters of Akin. He also has been endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and noted conservative senator Tom Coburn among others.

    All that being said, STEELMAN isn’t a bad choice either. Just not Akin, who is the REAL establishment candidate and is the only one of the three who has ever voted against the wishes of the vast majority of Missourians to fund Obamacare and plunge our nation another $1T in debt while hiding behind the excuse of “funding the troops”.
    ;-)

  • darrenperkins

    Anyone who gets the endorsement of Michele Bachmann (MN) and Steve King (IA) will likely get my vote and Todd Akin has both.

    • Flagstaff

      may be OK themselves, but are notoriously erratic when it comes to endorsements in other states.

  • gravelyvoicejim

    Excellent point, Flagstaff.

    This is where the rubber hits the road. The endorsements from Bachmann and King are more a poor reflection on them than as positive statement about Akin. Both Bachmenn and King voted AGAINST the same Obamacare and Planned Parenthood funding CRs that Akin voted FOR. There are only two explanations for their endorsements of Akin after he voted against them on issues they both claim to be so passionate about are:

    a) They are endorsing a fellow congressional “good old boy”, or
    b) They really aren’t all that passionate about these issues in the first place

    NEITHER of these reasons should cause anyone to consider supporting Akin, but rather to rethink their support for our image of Bachmann and King as principled conservatives. After these endorsements it should be hard for people paying attention to this to believe a word either of them say. My suggestion to conservative voters in their districts is to now has a track record of voting to fund Obamacare and and Planned Parenthood. What other “principled issues” will Akin sell us out on as a member of the Senate for the next 6 years…Supreme Court confirmations? Treaties? Constitutional Amendments? Once bitten, twice shy…

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