Kinder Promises GOP Faithful That Schweich Will "Take The Game To The Other Side"

At the Jasper-Newton County Lincoln Day dinner this weekend, Lt. Governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Peter Kinder promised that new Tom Schweich will focus on "the other side" as State Auditor.  Given the audience, it's abundantly clear what Kinder is talking about.  

It certainly isn't surprising that Kinder views the Auditor's office in purely political terms. After all, what isn't political for #PDK? But it is jarring to hear him talk so bluntly about "tak[ing] the game to the other side as we need to have it done" without even a hint of concern for fulfilling the actual responsibilities of the job or protecting taxpayers.  Here's video of Kinder's remarks as posted by PoliticMo:

Fortunately for Schweich, executing a hyper-partisan agenda is exactly what he promised he'd do when he was running against Allen Icet in the GOP Auditor's primary. "There's an important policy reason that this auditor's race is so important, and there's also a very significant reason from a political standpoint if you're a loyal Republican," he told wealthy donors in September 2009. 

Throughout the entire speech (Part 1 and Part 2), Kinder avoids almost all discussion of issues actually facing the state of Missouri.  After all, it's not like he's running for governor.