Blunt opts against re-election: Good riddance, or bad move?
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt says he will not seek re-election for a second term. According to the story we’ve prepared for STLtoday:
Blunt released a TV address “announcing that having achieved virtually everything he set out to ahe set out to accomplish when he ran for governor he will not seek a second term.”
Will you be sorry to see Blunt go when his term expires? Or are you pleased to know he won’t be back? Is this the end for Blunt’s political career or is he destined for bigger things? And if that’s what you think, where do you think he’s headed?
NOTE: Should have updated this earlier. Here’s a link to Wednesday’s story after Blunt’s news conference.
Also, here’s Blunt’s announcement as seen on YouTube.


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I am a conservative who was going to have a hard time voting for him because of the stem-cell sell-out. However, the big reason I won’t vote for him is I have had it up to here with American political royalty. Who do these people think they are? Was Matt Blunt the most qualified person in this state to be Governor at age 34? Give me a break. I for one will NEVER vote for anyone named Blunt, Carnahan, Clay, Kennedy, Bush or Clinton again. Tell these people to get a J-O-B. If he appoints his daddy to replace Kit and then appoints himself to fill daddy’s unexpired term in Congress I will contribute money to his opponent in the next election. We had a revolution about royalty 232 years ago. Its time we stop thinking people deserve political office because of their family connections. I do think Peter Kinder would make a great governor.
I see that # 26 didn’t have anything important to say, why did you even waste your time. I don’t claim to be the best grammar person but I at least had something to say.
What happens to his campaign war chest? Does it go to the state Republican party?
Like others, I wonder if it has anything to do with the missing e-mails. Or does it have something to do with Roy’s 2nd wife, a tobacco lobbyist? Or Andrew Blunt, another lobbyist who has worked for almost all of Altria subsidiaries?
I can’t imagine someone his age not running for re-election. If he’s been so successful as governor, why bail on the citizens of Missouri now? I don’t buy his reasons for a second.
This Blunt-Head is up to no-good. I was wondering what that funny smell in the air was?
Good By Mr. Blunt and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Just remember, you will have to answer to God for all those people you took away medical care from and lets not forget the retarded people you put on the streets.
He was not an effective Governor, and his withdrawal from the race was a gift to the Missouri GOP, not to his gubernatorial race opponent.
His nomination as the GOP candidate for Vice President would be a gift to both the National Democratic Committee and the legacy of Dan Quayle.
HE SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL HE WAS NOT GOING TO WIN SECOND TERM GOOD BYE MATT YOU WON’T BE MISSED
I think maybe he might not be running due to so many people like most of the ones on this board. But that doesn’t make him a bad governor just because most are liberals on here and probably didn’t vote for him to start with. I think probably most of his support come from out state, not in the big cities.
The other shoe will drop on this. There is more here than meets the eye. It’s not bad poll numbers (these guys have unlimited confidence in themselves), and it’s not the e-mail thing (a minor political inconvenience, at worst). You can be sure, this man had no plans other than to hold bigger and bigger offices for decades to come. There is very likely something we don’t know about, yet. Something big enough to end a political career. Stay tuned.
This has a certain odor to it. When Clinton was in trouble Senator Bond made it a point to denounce him at the same time he had a past involving multiple females friends and trysts at the governor’s mansion. Senator Bond’s divorce file in Mexico Mo remains sealed to this date.
I’m guessing, and its just that that, the rumors of Mini-Blunts unhappy marriage are about to result in a divorce and my gaydar tells me that perhaps Mini-Blunt doesn’t want to leave his freind’s behind.
The youbg man came into office totally immature and unequpiped to resist Republican business and anti-welfare interests, and was led down the wrong paths.