Bob McCarty Writes

A few days after the 2012 St. Charles County Republican Presidential Caucus ended badly, a member of the St. Charles County GOP Central Committee shared with me the content of an email message that was sent to members by Chair Eugene Dokes early Wednesday morning.  Attached to the message, the subject of which was “Re:  [...]

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During the past five days, I’ve written and published several posts with their roots in events that took place during the 2012 St. Charles County (Mo.) Republican Presidential Caucus (a.k.a., “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre”).  Today, however, I came across a video, “Reality Check” with Ben Swann, that offers the best visual summary yet of the [...]

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‘Oh!  What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!’ — Sir Walter Scott, 1808 Officials representing the St. Charles County (Mo.) Republican Party Central Committee seem to be offering different versions of the events that took place Saturday during the 2012 presidential caucus meeting (a.k.a., “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre”) at Francis [...]

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Today, after some 20 years of gradual movement toward the exit door of the Republican Party, I find I am a man without a political party to which I can, in good faith, belong. My ever-so-gradual exit from the Republican Party — the only party to which I have ever belonged — began in 1992, [...]

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Today may go down in history as “The St. Patrick’s Day Massacre” as the day some 2,000 people walked away from Francis Howell North High School in St. Peters, Mo., after political bedlam broke out during the 2012 St. Charles County Republican Presidential Caucus. GOP voters began showing up at the high school two hours [...]

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Though the primary races are heating up among Republicans, the results of a Public Policy Polling poll released today prove money doesn’t always result in support — especially among those battling for the chance to face incumbent Democrat Gov. Jay Nixon in November. Most surprising in the GOP gubernatorial primary — and the focus of the [...]

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I’ve heard quite a bit of feedback — most of it offline — about an article I published three weeks ago in which I was the first to ask the question, Is Missouri Republican Party Trying to Limit Participation in Presidential Nomination Process?  Yesterday, “Pat P.” offered the following comment below that article: Thanks, Bob. [...]

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