Carnahan goes on the attack, as she kicks her Senate campaign in gear

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Posted 12:30 a.m. Sun., 03.07.10 --Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (left) chose Democrat Days in Hannibal this weekend to reinforce her campaign image as a rancher-turned-U.S. Senate hopeful, and to roll out her sharpest direct attacks yet against the best-known Republican for the post, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt.

Saturday night's banquet tables were adorned with pictures of Carnahan in rancher gear and a horse. And the cowbody-hatted keynote speaker -- pro-Democrat commentator/author Jim Hightower of Texas -- delivered dig after dig at Blunt, called at one point "a 'blunt' instrument for business as usual."

But it was Carnahan who delivered the chief verbal volleys, repeatedly portraying Blunt, R-Springfield, as a purveyor of "D.C. doublespeak."

As evidence, she slammed his deficit-hawk talk, which she said was "bull'' since his tenure in Congress had seen the federal budget "go from a $128 billion surplus to s $1.2 trillion deficit."

Blunt was traveling the state in a bus on his "Jobs for Missouri Tour,'' Carnahan continued, but "this week, he voted against the jobs bill."

Carnahan said that running the family's cattle operation in Rolla had taught her "to know bull when I see it. And there's a lot of bull running around."

http://www.stlbeacon.org/content/view/100799/314/

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "$128 billion surplus to s $1.2 trillion deficit."

There you have 'conservative' republiconomics in a nutshell.

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2. Now that's a lady I'd like to have a beer with. Nt

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3. Be sure to sign up on her site, this might be the only Dem pickup this year

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4. kick