This column seems like it’s almost a kiss for Koster thinly disguised as an independent critical analysis of Koster, his ambitions, and his supporters.  From here the guy looks like a political chameleon who will change is hue depending on which way the popular political winds are blowing.  The fact that this guy has no record on certain issues should tell folks one thing – that his first position is unknown.  Chris Koster’s history tells us that he maybe with you on your issue at one point, but if the prevailing popular breezes shift – watch out.  From KansasCity.com:

Koster gained a reputation as a talented legislator unafraid to take on the special interests and socially conservative core of his own party.

But those credentials don’t win Republican primaries in Missouri, and Koster, from the start, had his sights set on being the state’s attorney general.

He tried tacking to the right, sponsoring bills that would crack down hard on illegal immigrants and protect large hog-raising operations from regulation by county and city governments.

But those efforts drew him deeper into a political wilderness.

Though neither made it into law, the immigration and hog-farm bills damaged his standing with people who’d seen him as a refreshingly moderate lawmaker in a conservative Republican delegation.

And his defense of stem-cell research had placed him permanently on the outs with groups like Missouri Right to Life, which often call the shots in Republican primaries.

So Koster decided to remake himself. Last summer he announced his incarnation as a newly minted Democrat.

“I think it’s been good for my internal soul,” he told a group of editorial writers a few months later.

But has it been good for his political career?

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