“But women of America are going to kick the tires the next 55 days, George, and they’re going to going to find out that this is a ticket that wants to put women in prison for having an abortion after they have been raped.” – Sen. Claire McCaskill [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/P4Bz5A_541M” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] [kml_flashembed […]

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Since it’s apparently not beneath FiredUp Missouri to use the misfortunes of others to score political points, we’d like to remind them that “No Way” Jay Nixon and his wife seem to enjoy bicycling  as well. It’s good to see that even Democrats like Jay Nixon understand the positive economic impact of having an annual  […]

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Panelist Dan Gilgoff presents his “God-o-Meter” blog at the discussion “Politics and Religion—God in the White House” discussion at the Futures Forum, held Sept. 11 at the Missouri School of Journalism Centennial celebration. Hat tip: debn4 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HHTO0EHN-qM” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Related: Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal: MU J-school Centennial

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What if Sarah Steelman would have won the Republican governor’s primary last month? Can you imagine the excitement of a Sarah/Sarah ticket in Missouri right now? Hey, we can dream can’t we? Rasmussen: Election 2008: Missouri Governor

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Reports are flying around the Missouri blogosphere that the Obama camp is pulling up stakes in Missouri and is heading for higher ground. Missouri Dems -especially contenders in down ticket races – are said to be furious with Obama for “doing what John Kerry did to us in ’04.” The speculation among politicos is that […]

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Here’s a great Missouri example of how out of touch the lunatic left is. From the K.C. Blue Blog: “A new photo shows John McCain spent his 70th birthday on a yacht in Montenegro with an Italian con man that made millions pretending to be the CFO of the Vatican.” With convicted felon Tony Rezko […]

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To further pile on the Democrats mounting problems, FiredUp Missouri gives a less than lukewarm endorsement of Republican Democrat Chris “flipper” Koster: “Hopefully we can all rally around Koster’s law enforcement experience and get him elected in November. We had some great candidates, but its time to get behind the nominee.” Doesn’t it sound like […]

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Missourinet reporter Brent Martin followed up on our lead yesterday and further exposed the irony of the ethcially challenged “Rowdy Rod” Jetton – who is on his way out of politics and Governor Sarah Palin – an ethics crusader who has quickly emerged onto the national stage. “Rowdy Rod” has this to say about Governor […]

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As the Obama-ssiah Express continues to derail around the nation (strikingly so in Missouri) with silly gaffes and verbal miscues, we offer these words of wisdom to the party of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Even in this terrible election environment for Republicans, it wasn’t in our opinion very smart to nominate an unproven, freshman […]

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Looks like the controversey over Sen Obama and lucky sperm club member Russ Carnahan’s lipstick on a pig comment isn’t dying down anytime soon: Jefferson County GOP (KY) collecting lipstick after Obama’s remark (hat tip: PolitickerKY.com) Local Republicans are vowing to send 1,000 tubes of lipstick to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in an effort […]

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