The Fired Up Endorsement

I should probably start by noting that Republicans rightfully shouldn't care who I think people ought to support in a GOP gubernatorial primary.

But it does strike me that Missouri Republicans (or at least those who aren't yet too embarrassed to pull a GOP ballot) have a very clear choice.

They can choose the candidate whom everyone expects to win and who probably will, yet who has generated close to zero excitement, even among his own partisans.  Or they can choose the candidate for whom a victory would embody a total meltdown failure of the Republican Party's establishment and infrastructure.  

I frankly don't care too much who the MOGOP nominates because either will get beat handily in a general election.  But if forced to choose, I would pick the candidate whose nomination illustrates the weakening of the traditional Republican power structure, consultant network and funder community.  A bad beating for the Republican establishment would go some way toward proving the contempt in which Missourians hold the folks who've been running the state over the last four years.

So, for what it's worth, I endorse Sarah Steelman in tomorrow's GOP Gubernatorial nominating contest.  May god have mercy on my soul.