“the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God”

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By JUANA SUMMERS

So much for loyalty: state auditor Tom Schweich, a former chief of staff to former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, was one of the Missouri endorsements former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced Thursday.

Bolton is weighing his own presidential campaign. He and Romney both endorsed Schweich’s 2010 campaign and headlined fundraisers for the race.

Romney’s other Show-Me-State supporters include former Sen. Jim Talent, a longtime Romney backer, state Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey and state House Majority Floor Leader Tim Jones.

Former Ambassador Sam Fox and Jeff Fox, CEO of Harbour Group, are Romney’s Missouri finance chairmen.

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Sen. McCaskill has appeared to be getting noticably more conservative the nearer we get to the 2012 Election, a shift that has not been overlooked by many Missouri voters.  Taking a page from the dog-eared Democratic National Committee playbook, Sen. McCaskill has run as a moderate but voted as a liberal, presumably thinking that we Missouri rubes will forget what she promised us in order to get elected and that we will somehow overlook her voting record in Washington these last five years or so.  Don’t count on it.

With the recent rumors of Rep. Akin’s interest in challenging her, Missouri voters will have a very faithful conservative politician to vote for in 2012, assuming the rumors turn out to be true.  Sen. McCaskill has been trying to do an impression of a born again fiscal conservative for the last year or so, reacting to voter anger over the reckless spending of the titular head of her party, Barack Obama.

Todd Akin hasn’t changed his core positiions in the ten years he has held office.  He was pro life, pro military and a budget cutting hawk 10 years ago and he holds the same views today.

If the rumors are true, this is very good news for Missouri voters who will have the chance to send another liberal Democrat back to their home state where they can experience some of the effects of their policies.

~~John Cronin~~

By A. G. SULZBERGER and KEVIN SACK

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law.

The filing of the brief by Attorney General Chris Koster, a onetime Republican state legislator who switched to the Democratic Party in 2007, underscores the act’s political tenuousness in a critical Midwestern swing state.

Mr. Koster’s action followed months of pressure from state Republicans that he join attorneys general from other states who are challenging the constitutionality of the law.

Rather than join the litigation, however, Mr. Koster chose to file a “friend of the court” brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, which is reviewing one of five challenges to the act that have moved into the midlevel appellate courts.

Three lower court judges have upheld the law, while two have ruled that its central provision — the requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance — is unconstitutional.

The 11th Circuit is hearing a case filed in Pensacola, Fla., by Republican governors and attorneys general from 26 states. The federal district judge in that case, Roger Vinson, decreed that the entire health care act should be invalidated, but stayed his ruling until the Supreme Court settled the matter.

In Missouri, a ballot referendum aimed at nullifying the law was approved by nearly three to one last year, and the legislature recently passed resolutions urging Mr. Koster to join the legal challenges. The state’s lieutenant governor, a Republican, filed a lawsuit last year seeking to block the law.

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