Blunt and the Legislature are leaving a sinking ship much worse off than when he arrived. it will take a lot of work to repair the damage they have done to Missouri’s poor and disabled. Missouri is near the bottom on nearly any ranking among the states on many issues. This is a disgrace.

Good riddance! Maybe this gives hope to the families of the clients at the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center. He had no business threatening to close that facility rather than taking the responsibility to fix the problems. The answer isn’t paying private facilities for the care (or lack thereof). The answer is hiring decent, caring people and paying them a decent wage. Hopefully the new governor will see the logic and sense of it.

Un-freaking-believeable what kind of an ego do you have to have to say you accomplished everything you set out to do. 200,000 out of any kind of insurance. a school funding system in chaos and a sunshine law disgrace at your heels. I just love executive powers. The gov has something up his sleeve (political appointments, a move up the ladder or the e-mail scandal) ahh, yes my little chick-a-dee lets not forget his little brother and what hes got going. I guess time will tell, what will the GOP do without the golden boy. I guess Jay might be getting and/or making a jillion phone calls and e-mails about now. I wonder who will run,Im thinking Sarah Steelman is going to make the hard run on this one but than again we still have the good ole boy network still running Jeff City.

Matt Blunt is a miserable failure as governor. Hopefully he will ride off quietly into the sunset. Allow me to predict that Ken Hulshof will challenge Jay Nixon this coming November.

Governor Blunt has done a fabulous job! He had goals when he took office and now that those have be fulfilled he has decided its best for him to move on! Way to not stay past your prime! LT GOV kinder will be a magnificent candidate for the republicans! Unlike his opponent, he knows his job is to serve the voters of Missouri and not his personal agenda! Best of luck Mr. Kinder!

Oh the scandals we are about to find out! KSDK already reported he had started running ads and has millions in his campaign fund. So something is up. I think all the scandals are catching up with him and now he is running for the hills.

Good riddance and hopefully he’ll be THROWN OUT of office or forced out once all the dirt starts coming out in the next few days.

Please support No Child Left Behind now.
He has set out everything he had to accomplish? Low goals make a poor leader apparently.

hmmm…could it be that Blunt and Senator Larry Craig might have more in common than just being Republicans??

hmmmm…the Gov and his wife at his side looked like Larry Craig and his wife when he got caught…

#52 JW said :

I mean, what else is he going to do for a living???

The Post Dispatches “shocked!” rhetoric aside, nobody was surprised by this announcement, and political insiders have been saying for over a year that Blunt wasn’t going to run for re-election.

Reliable polling and focus groups have been telling him for a long time now that he’s wildly unpopular and that he has virtually zero chance of winning against Jay Nixon in the fall.

What else is he going to do for a living you ask?

Try making MILLIONS as a K-Street lobbyist on the coat-tails of his politically connected family of Washington insiders.

Then… in a few years - when he’d aged enough to not look like a 12 year old and some of the scandals have cooled off - and those wonderful Missourians with their wonderfully short memories have forgotten what an ineffectual and shallow “leader” he was - he can be born again from the ashes as PRESIDENTIAL material.

That’s what.

Those of you saying “something is up, here” are exactly right.

The time just isn’t right for a big move right now, and a humuliating (and it WOULD have been a humiliating) landslide defeat in the fall would be a mark that might hurt his Presidential aspirations later.

This is all very calculated.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Too bad we can’t run him out of the Republican Party. We’d be more respected if we could. He gives us all a bad name.

Peee-eeew.