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Why Roy Blunt is Retiring
March 11, 2021 at 3:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 63 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/11/why-roy-blunt-is-retiring/
"SNIP......
James Hohmann: Several years ago, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) spotted the bust of a man on top of a bookcase in the Capitol. It had no label, and congressional historians were unable to discern the identity of the mystery man, beyond determining that he was a cleric of some kind. Blunt put the statuette in his office to serve as a sobering reminder: that virtually everyone will eventually be forgotten.
Blunt, who announced Monday that he would not seek reelection, would no doubt like to be remembered as a legislator who adeptly and unabashedly played the inside game. But another, more melancholy way to remember Blunt is as a politician who found himself increasingly out of step with a party that demonized that skill set and who concluded that, even after the end of the Trump presidency, the cost of winning reelection and serving in a transformed Republican Party was simply too steep.
Said Blunt: I think the country, in the last decade or so, has sort of fallen off the edge with too many politicians saying, If you vote for me, Ill never compromise on anything.
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applegrove
(118,642 posts)loses another Senate seat as the country has moved left under Biden. Am I right?????
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)The state seems to have taken a hard right turn in the past few years. Josh Hawley comes to mind.
One can hope, though.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)Not sure it's enough for us to win Blunt's seat in '22, but it could be, especially if enough people associate Hawley with the insurrection.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)well by history and the general American public. Barak Obama is one example, and then we got the moron PINO immediately right afterwards. It's going to be so easy to remember Barak Obama centuries from today, being that the worst president ever served office immediately after Barak Obama.
ZonkerHarris
(24,223 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)nothing left
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)I thought he was a straight Party line voter.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)He's been 90%+ GOP for the past several Congressional terms, sometimes approaching 100%.
https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/B000575/votes-against-party/116