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And so it starts. Sarah Steelman (r) has announced she’s running for the U.S. Senate in 2012:
…That’s why I have decided to run for the United States Senate…
And:
….We need to create an economic climate of growth where families keep their own hard earned income. The country’s total federal debt is at $13.7 trillion and rising. We need to stop the frightening growth of government not only in size but in the power it holds over our lives by cutting government spending; balancing the budget; eliminating needless regulations; and reversing unwanted Obamacare mandates. It means stopping the Washington elites from making America more like a European country instead of recognizing that people still flock to America because they know they can build a better life for their families. It is time we get back to honoring and upholding our Constitution that protects the people against the encroachment of government power. It is time to ensure that our children and future generations to come will have the same abundant opportunities to fulfill their God -given purpose, and to live free!…
She left out reforming Social Security and promoting world peace.
is also being bandied about as someone who could run against McCaskill. Wagner, the former head of the GOP in Missouri, just this week announced that she wants to replace Steele at the RNC. Since she just did a bang up job of chairing Roy Blunt’s senate campaign, she’s flying high. Who knows whether the RNC job is the only goal in her sights now or whether it’s a way to gain her the name recognition it’ll take to challenge McCaskill.
She’s well spoken. In the video clip below, she talks–for all the world as if what she’s articulating isn’t even blarney–about how serious Blunt was on the issues. If I didn’t know better, she’d have me convinced. (She doesn’t mention, for example, how Republicans would like to slash Social Security or what impact such an action might have on jobs.) She’d make a formidable opponent.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSP5SewYApo&fs=1&hl=en_US%5D