While I don't think Blunt is a RINO
like these guys.
I do think he was a Bush Lap-dog as he voted for anything the administration wanted. He voted for the Medicare drug bill, the No Child Left Behind Act, The Farm Bill and The Highway Bill. Blunt also defends the use of earmarks.
The worst part of Blunt is that he voted for both TARPS!!!
The only way for the Republicans to win is to restore confidence in the 2 party system. There needs to be a purge of any and all tax and spend Republicans like Blunt. Then during the run-up to the elections the Republicans should run against TARP and an out of control establishment government. The jewel in their campaign needs to be term-limits.
The Blunt family is conservative and they are not RINOs but they like so many here on this website worshiped at the feet of GWB and followed him to their own eventual destruction. It is a shame that principles just got abandoned in the quest to excuse the policies of the Bush Administration. Many good, well meaning conservatives just could not see where this course of Bush idolatry would take the conservative movement.
I think the only hope for Blunt or any Missouri republican in 2010 is an unfortunate economic collapse so bad that the people will forget the part that the republicans in the last 2 to 4 years had to play in same.