After Talent show, Ashcroft next to show support for Blunt
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Roy Blunt continues to unite disparate factions of the state’s Republican Party.
Over the weekend, the candidate for U.S. Senate announced the support of former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and current Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, the only GOP statewide official in Jefferson City.
Today, he’ll burnish his credentials with the backing of one of the state’s most prominent conservatives: John Ashcroft.
Ashcroft — who served as both Missouri governor and U.S. Senator, as well as U.S. Attorney General — is scheduled to appear with Blunt at events today in Springfield and Joplin.
The apparent Ashcroft endorsement comes shortly after yet another former U.S. Senator — GOP lion John Danforth — also decided to support Blunt.
Ashcroft and Danforth are about as ideologically opposite as any two can be while still a part of the same party.
Though election is many months away, Blunt clearly wants to go into his fight with Democrat Robin Carnahan with a unified Republican Party behind him.
If reporters have any stones, they will ask family values apostle John Ashcroft for his reaction to his old friend Roy Blunt dumping the long-suffering wife who raised his children in favor of a younger woman who got rich lobbying for Big Tobacco. Be wary of burrowing into bed with a hypocrite, it is contagious.
The lack of institutional memory among reporters is just amazing. John Danforth famously did a TV ad for John Ashcroft’s 2000 Senate re-election bid after the death of Mel Carnahan and subsequent emotional groundswell. Danforth looked into the camera and said that what was happening to John Ashcroft was just not right. Danforth also gave Ashcroft his start in public life as an assistant state attorney general; Ashcroft shared an office with another assistant AG, Clarence Thomas. And they both served George W. Bush, Ashcroft as AG and Danforth as UN Ambassador. In short, they have a long history, mostly friendly.
Look at the bright side…When “Roy gets whooped” he can join the Aschcroft Lobbying Group LLC…. otherwise known as:
“Fighting Terror for Fun and Profit.”
He can wine and dine with his son Matt, Kathrine Hannaway, Tom Delay’s chief of staff, and 9 other Bush administration officials.
Let the good times roll!
One lobbyist endorsing another.
Wait, I said that about the endorsement from lobbyist Jim Talent too!
Who’s Ralph Reed and Jack Abramhoff endorsing in the Missouri Senate race?
Why do I keep hearing the song “Yellow Brick Road” when I see Roy?
Wow, what utter garbage “drudge”. Is that really all you have to fling at Blunt? Nice try - shows how devoid of ideas the allies of the Carnahan dynasty are. No surprise she’s hiding away from the glare of questions or any engagement whatsoever in this race. Nope, she’s happy to just sit there and stay out of the limelight so as to not dirty her dress at all, meanwhile her surrogates come in here with filth like this against Blunt. Nice try - but people are already figuring out that Democratic “change” is just hatemongering filth like this.
Oh, to have Ashcroft as AG again. For all the hate he gets from the left, he actually was a very good AG, and a model public servant. He doesn’t just toss his name behind people lightly, if he’s behind Blunt, so am I.
“Ashcroft and Danforth are about as ideologically opposite as any two can be while still a part of the same party.”
No kidding. And if both of them are lining up behind Blunt, that means the party is about as unified as it can possibly be.
People blindly dismiss endorsements like this and say “well of course they have to endorse him, they’re in the same party” - but that ignores the fact that no, they don’t have to endorse anyone. If they aren’t on board, they might not say so, but they would stay quiet and not endorse.
The fact that both Danforth and Ashcroft have endorsed Blunt now is huge. The division in the 2008 Gubernatorial primary will not exist here anymore, and that is good news for Blunt.
What poimissouri said… this is a huge thing…
And I predict that if she runs the same endorsements… in mass… will go to Sarah Steelman for Blunt’s House seat. She just needs to decide if she’ll take being ‘only’ a REP.
Typical Republican double-speak…
So if you stay quiet and don’t endorse, that doesn’t mean your’e not endorsing.
You’re right about one thing…
Danforth despises Blunt almost as much as he despises Ashcroft.
What happened to all the Republicans who disavowed Danforth for supporting the liberal baby-killers in 2006 while hammering the “religious right”? Many bloggers on this site said he wasn’t a real Republican and he’s been a Democrat for years.
Now, he’s back in good grace because he’s supporting a Republican with a 30% approval rating. Doesn’t take much to win you people back.
You know, its funny - everyone says that Robin Carnahan is this “great candidate”, but why is that? Just because she’s a Carnahan? I haven’t seen or heard from her at all, meanwhile Blunt has been slaying the Steelman dragon, and lining up the entire party behind him.
Looks to me like its Blunt who is the real strong candidate in Missouri.