MO-McCaskill in hot water over alleged illegal drug use.

Sorry, I usually link only from credibile sources; however, I cannot find the direct link to the You Tube interviews. Therefore, I have to route the links through redstate.com.

Anyway...

Link to TV interviews. (You Tube)

Apparently she admits to experimenting in the 60's, but the investigative reporter seems to think it goes further than that... a federal inquiry into meth labs.

Anyway you look at it, this is bad news for her campaign. Even if the federal inquiry into the meth labs turns out to be false… she still admits to using illegal drugs in the 60’s and that aint gonna’ help in rural MO. She’s going to be branded as a hippie now (all you ex-hippies, Im not saying theres anything wrong with that!).

2000 and 2004 campaigns really put that issue to bed. You'll notice that no one really made it a big deal as expected, especially since Bush is the one with the worst history.

Wasn't it Kucinich who NEVER even tried pot who got labeled the hippie candidate?

I wouldn't sweat it - even us "rural" folks were surrounded by pot and acid in the 60s and 70s.

at age 26. My Catholic upbringing made me see the devil trying to take me to hell - - not fun.

Had I not been raised so strictly I might have had a good time. ;)

to some it is the Garden of Earthly Delights...to others it is Dante's Inferno....
thinking patterns grossly distorted and you may encounter aspects and areas of your psyche that you are not prepared to deal with...............some have deeply mystical experiences, some get scared by the seeming lack of control.....; your senses are altered, not necessarily enhanced, but how your brain interprets sensory input can be quite bizarre...;
I think if you go with an open mind, and be willing to let things happen and just enjoy the ride, it can be a very entertaining experience - for the first few hours at least, after that, it gets boring, because it stays with you for several hours

Or so you think at the time. ;)

But back in the early '70's, you could still obtain it, and it was a lot of fun, if you were in the right frame of mind, to begin with.

LSD is defeintely still availible in some niche markets.

in the 60's and 70's... Being a hippie is a mindset... a belief system, not a drug history. And, btw, there's plenty of evidence of politicians kids sowing some pretty wild oats on YouTube these days, too. Being young and being foolish sometimes goes hand-in-hand. That's why there's "maturity"... you know?

TC

They didn't have anything about it on the news and I'm absolutely sure that if there was so much as the tiniest whisper about it or anything to it, the local media would have been shouting it from the nearest church steeple.

Missouri?

in your vicinity because your rumor appears to be nothing more that. A rumor. As the old saying goes, With friends like this who needs enemies.

Regardless of whether it is rumor or not. The fact is, it will bring negative press to her campaign and I just wanted to inform everyone.

That is CBS here in KC.

Yeah, that sounds plausible.

Mr. Talent is just probaby pissed that the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCaskill.

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...McCaskill was one of the first prosecutors nationwide to crack down on meth, leading General Barry McCaffrey, the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to state that her approach was "a model for the rest of the nation."

...While McCaskill supports the goals of the recently passed Combat Meth Act, she believes that it cannot undo the damage caused by Talent-backed cuts that are now crippling rural meth law enforcement. Talent has a long record of voting against critical funding for the war on meth

http://www.scanews.com/2006/08/s833/83313/

Coincidence the smear has something to do with "Meth Labs"...?

I don't think so.

Me and George Bush, now President of the United States for the past 6 years, both used illegal drugs in the 60s. The Difference is I stopped in the 60s, while President Bush kept going with it well into the 80s. Also, unlike President Bush, I am NOT an acoholic.

I'm sorry is that story supposed to be considered damming? It says she was investigated almost 10 years ago. Was she indicted? Charged? No, she wasn't.

Anything else these mousy little reporters with nothing better to do have comes from a coked up meth whore in prison.

Please.

I lol'd

They obviously came up with nothing. Can you say fishing expedition?

They're basically trying to tie her to this woman just because they worked for the same department. Un fucking believable. They apparently investigated McCaskill at the time and she came up totally clean (one would imagine, since they didn't find anything.)

Better that this comes up now than in two months, I suppose.

Apparently it will show Talent up by 2.

over at Freepland, a number of them think this is a concocted witchhunt non-story that may end up helping her:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687587/posts

Taking care of the problem of Meth Labs in her state is one of the things people admire most about her.

They are accussing her of participating in something she's been busting her ass to fight so hard against?

Talent has to be livid that she's doing so well, and that the Fraternal Order of Police are backing McCaskill because of her work on the "passed Combat Meth Act"..

You seem rather anxious to have this smear hurt her campaign.

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"McCaskill was one of the first prosecutors nationwide to crack down on meth, leading General Barry McCaffrey, the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to state that her approach was "a model for the rest of the nation."

..."While McCaskill supports the goals of the recently passed Combat Meth Act, she believes that it cannot undo the damage caused by Talent-backed cuts that are now crippling rural meth law enforcement. Talent has a long record of voting against critical funding for the war on meth"

http://www.scanews.com/2006/08/s833/83313 /

And may end up angering a number of voters at the attempted smear.

were deleted. There is no evidence that suggests that she is a drug dealer, in fact there is evidence to the contrary. The whole thing is preposterous.

What a crock. I'm surprised you would post something like this.

I watched both videos and his emphasis was always sinister, even when the words and paperwork were tame to nothing.

Disgraceful that he showed pictures of a homemade meth lab, and then interviewed McCaskill later in the same segment, almost implying a tie-in to McCaskill.

smoking a joint while cruising up and down the Missouri River, back in the late '90's. She divorced him.