Sowers Takes Second Campaign Position, Pro Pelosicare, Opposes Free Speech

As his candidacy plummeted further off the radar screen see here:

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_101/politics/44026-1.html

and here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/house/2010_elections_house_map.html

Tommy Sowers surprised Missouri voters by taking a new stance on an issue -- his second since the beginning of his campaign six months ago. Tommy Sowers attacked Jo Ann Emerson for exercising her right to free speech by holding a sign reading "Kill the Bill" before Sunday's health care vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nevermind that Sowers lambasted Emerson for attending one rally on Saturday, which she wasn't at. She and two colleagues held the sign up to a roar of applause on Sunday afternoon.

Sowers' opposition to Americans' First Amendment rights joins his support for the Pelosi/Reid/Obama health care bill as the only two issues on which he has taken positions. Missourians can read Sowers' tea leaves by looking closely at the health care takeover, however, noting its attendant provisions enabling the use of taxpayer money for abortions, half-a-trillion dollars in new taxes on the American people, cuts to the Medicare program, and an enormous new government bureaucracy to stand between Americans and their health care providers.

The other indication of Sowers' probable stance on the issues is visible on his lists of campaign contributions, where East and West Coast states dominate the money list. Only one in ten of his supporters lives in the state of Missouri, much less the Eighth District.

We think it is increasingly strange that Sowers has chosen to make the health care takeover, support for federal funding of abortion, and opposition to free speech the focus of his candidacy. However, it makes even less sense when we consider that the other pillars of his campaign are Duke basketball, swank fundraising events on Wall Street, and twisting the truth into a pretzel to attack his opponent. But the weirdest thing of all is that he is running for office in Missouri, where he is clearly out of touch and out of place.

This is a candidate who should be running for office in San Francisco where he would actually find an audience receptive to his liberal views and negative tone -- but we suppose Sowers is reluctant to run there, against his idol Speaker Nancy Pelosi.