The naysayer’s are silenced as social liberals take a whipping from Roy Blunt. Wishful thinking and false hopes for the arrival of a "dark horse" candidate within Republican ranks were prophesied from Dem pundits. A "dark horse" candidate failed to appear and Blunt approached as a Republican White Knight delivering a message to the nation on the importance being worthy of constituent trust.
Blunt's appointment as Republican Whip rejects the notion of Democrat insiders suggesting the Republican party will refrain from catering to the religious base that helped the Republican majority take form before the most recent election.
A defiant Blunt's first comments as leader of the Rebublican minority was a jab to freshly elected democrats - "They ran as Republican's..."
Blunt beat John Shadegg's bid for Minority Whip 137-57 which looked an awful lot like sentiments expressed by vote in Missouri District 62. The news - overlooked by every District 7 publication was that Democratic candidate Sae Tuia stole 31% of the Stone County vote from Republican Candidate Dennis Wood. The story here is that Tuis, a Mormon Samoan, was called by the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints to help with operations in Samoa shortly after the primaries – he wasn’t even living on US soil.
