Missouri GOP: McCaskill doesn't get it

As expected, the Missouri GOP, fresh from holding on to Kit Bond's Senate seat, is aiming its guns at Claire McCaskill in an effort to win back that seat. The following news release was issued today:

Claire McCaskill’s Democrats suffered historic setbacks in Missouri and across the nation on November 2 when Americans overwhelmingly rejected the reckless liberal agenda that has dominated Washington for the past two years. But instead of listening to Missourians, McCaskill has dug in her heels. In an interview with Missourinet, McCaskill echoed Democrat talking points by claiming that her party’s massive losses were the result of a failure to communicate, instead of what they really were: a rejection of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.


“Claire McCaskill just doesn’t get it,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party. “Like her liberal friends in Washington who think that Missourians don’t know enough to make informed decisions, McCaskill still believes that her party’s ‘shellacking’ in last week’s election resulted from failed communication rather than the failure of the liberal agenda. Missourians know exactly what Barack Obama and Claire McCaskill are selling, and on November 2, they took the opportunity to overwhelmingly reject it.”

Throughout 2010, Claire McCaskill’s fellow Democrats repeatedly insulted Americans by claiming the nation’s overwhelming opposition to their liberal agenda was the result of a lack of knowledge. Barack Obama argued that Americans aren’t “thinking clearly” because they’re “scared,” John Kerry claimed that “we’re in a period of know-nothingism,” and Harry Reid dismissed Missouri’s 71% against the federal health care bill by claiming that people “have a lack of understanding” about the bill.” McCaskill supported the health care takeover and later dismissed the passage of Prop C because, she claimed, Missourians “don't realize” what’s in the bill.

Now, Obama and McCaskill are reading from the same sheet of music by claiming that a lack of communication—not failed policies—are the result of the Democrats’ massive losses. In reality, Missourians listened to McCaskill’s defense of her party’s reckless spending and debt, the failed stimulus, and the health care takeover, and they sent a clear message that enough is enough.

McCaskill has further revealed her tone-deafness when, following the election, she claimed that she’s not going to have to “pivot.”

So it’s no wonder that Public Policy Polling released a new survey this week showing her as second most vulnerable Senator up for reelection in 2012. The poll, available here, puts McCaskill’s disapproval ratings at a whopping 53%.