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Missouri's GOP Lament, 11:30 p.m. E.T. Missouri's foremost Republican statesman, former Senator John Danforth, sounded blue on the phone. "I am blue - I'm a blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...
...Obama had everything going for him, Danforth said: the Bush drag, the unpopularity of the war in Iraq, the economic downturn and opting out of public financing to rake in a mind-boggling cash advantage...
...Take a Democrat like Bill Richardson - experienced in Congress, in the Cabinet, as a diplomat and governor - and have him run against Republican Tom Ridge, a former soldier, governor and Director of Homeland Security, with the winner chosen by a blue-ribbon commission of all-purpose elders. The Danforth-Mitchell commission, perhaps, or O'Connor-Albright. But it has never worked that way, which is why Lincoln's statue occupies a marble temple on the Mall in Washington, while his far more experienced rival William Seward has a little seat on a pedestal in New York City. "Experience never exists...
...concept of Super Tuesday that produces the sort of spectacular jumble Americans witnessed in recent days. It's the slapdash execution. "In and of itself, Super Tuesday is fine," said former Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a voice of logic, as the cacophony crescendoed. "But if you're going to have something like this, then candidates should have more than a week to campaign in 20-odd states...
...Republican race is subdued. A former state party chairman, Hillard Selck, said he and other party leaders didn't even know, as of last week, who was handling front-runner John McCain's Missouri campaign. That might change with the recent endorsement of McCain by former Senator John Danforth...