We need Sarah Steelman's conservative principles

Voting in the Republican primary Tuesday, I cast only one vote. All the local candidates were unopposed, so I didn't mark their names, and I didn't know enough about the candidates for lieutenant governor to make an informed choice, so I left that one blank, too. For the GOP nomination for governor, I voted for Sarah Steelman, because she seemed to me to be a real Republican.

A friend at work was talking about the election at lunch today and he said that he, too, voted for Steelman. "I've only talked to her once," he said, "but she reminds me of Ronald Reagan."

I agree; Steelman seems to me to be a conservative first and a Republican second. That's what we need in government: a principled conservative.

Instead, the Republican voters gave us Hulshof.