House of Claire
August 14, 2015I’m not surprised that this happened. All’s fair in love & war, after all.
But I am a little shocked to see Senator McCaskill writing about her scheming – just calling a spade a spade – in Politico.
How I Helped Todd Akin Win — So I Could Beat Him Later
By SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL August 11, 2015It was August 7, 2012, and I was standing in my hotel room in Kansas City about to shotgun a beer for the first time in my life. I had just made the biggest gamble of my political career—a $1.7 million gamble—and it had paid off. Running for reelection to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Missouri, I had successfully manipulated the Republican primary so that in the general election I would face the candidate I was most likely to beat. And this is how I had promised my daughters we would celebrate.
But first let me go back to the beginning. […]
No Truce With Kings 
[…] on an article that Sen. Claire McCaskill wrote last August, it occurred to me late last year that perhaps Ms. Clinton was doing something similar with Donald […]