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MO-Senate: Bond to Retire (Open GOP seat in 2010)
The Washington Post ^ | January 8, 2009 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 01/08/2009 9:37:55 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative

Bond is the third Republican Senator to leave the chamber in 2010 -- following Sens. Sam Brownback (Kans.) and Mel Martinez (Fla.) down that path. Democrats are expected to heavily target all three seats.

Bond's retirement ends a long -- and, at times, rocky -- career in Missouri politics that began more than four decades ago when he ran and lost a race for Congress. In 1970, Bond bounced back to be elected state auditor and two years after that was elected governor of the Show Me State. In 1976 he was defeated for re-election but in 1980 reclaimed the office. (We told you it was a long and rocky career.) In 1986, Bond won a Senate seat and had managed to hold the seat ever since -- winning re-election to a fourth term in 2004 with 56 percent, his highest share of the vote ever.

Bond's retirement makes a candidacy by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the daughter of the late Governor Mel and former Senator Jean Carnahan, even more likely. Robin Carnahan had made no secret of the fact she was thinking about the race before Bond's decision. Another potential candidate is state Attorney General Chris Koster although Carnahan has the right of first refusal.

The Republican bench is thinner. The three names likely to get significant attention over the next few days are former Sen. Jim Talent, former Rep. Kenny Hulshof and Rep. Roy Blunt.

Talent, who served in the House during the 1990s, lost a run for governor in 2000 but bounced back two years later to defeat Jean Carnahan. Talent lost to Sen. Claire McCaskill in his bid for a full term in 2006.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; congress; electionussenate; kitbond; missouri; mo2010; senate
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Thing is that Andy Cuomo gets so unlikeable when he campaigns, Caroline could be sitting pretty by the Sept'10 Dem primary.

Auditor Robert Thomas Wagner Jr. in Delaware is the only state-wide Republican apart from Castle.

61 posted on 01/08/2009 11:03:51 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: ken5050

Oh, I expect a massive disaster or disasters plural. The False Messiah is going to get a lot of people killed. Let us hope it is in the areas that most strongly supported him. They’re gonna get some “change” alright.


62 posted on 01/08/2009 11:05:21 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Lou Budvis

Gov. Ritter has announced Denver Superintendent of Schools Michael Bennet as Salazar’s successor when he becomes Interior Sec. Bennet has never held elective office before. No mention if John Salazar will run in 2010 against him.


63 posted on 01/08/2009 11:07:28 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: wk4bush2004

Is it too late for Governor Matt Blunt to appoint Steeleman?


64 posted on 01/08/2009 11:08:18 AM PST by listenhillary (No representation without taxation! ~~ Mark Steyn)
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To: Big_Monkey

Reid is very vulnerable. NV is PO’ed about his shift to the left.


65 posted on 01/08/2009 11:10:03 AM PST by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: LdSentinal
I don't know what Wagner even does. He's held that office since he was appointed to it in 1989. We held most of the other lesser statewide offices, but have lost the rest of them one by one. There hasn't been a new Republican elected to major office in DE since 1994. There's no real farm team of people anymore. I wish Pete Du Pont had taken out Biden in 1984. I think it would've perhaps altered the landscape. Creaky, aging RINOs are no way to ensure a strong GOP future.
66 posted on 01/08/2009 11:11:24 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: listenhillary
Is it too late for Governor Matt Blunt to appoint Steeleman?

Considering Kit Bond is still in office then I'd say it's too early to appoint Steeleman.

67 posted on 01/08/2009 11:12:08 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Poor timing on Bond’s part.


68 posted on 01/08/2009 11:13:47 AM PST by listenhillary (No representation without taxation! ~~ Mark Steyn)
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To: golfisnr1

He was always on the left. It’s just that now the state sees so much of him and his public behavior and ethics, they’ve gotten sick of him. Like how my state of TN got sick of Gore after he became VP after being extremely popular (although they didn’t really know how left-wing he was until then).


69 posted on 01/08/2009 11:13:56 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: listenhillary

Bond will be almost 72 by the time his term expires. He was 47 when he first won in 1986, and he obviously doesn’t want to be serving in the minority and spending his retirement years in DC. 24 years is a good, long stretch for anyone. Probably twice as long as anyone should spend in that cesspool.


70 posted on 01/08/2009 11:16:36 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: AmericanGirlRising
Specter, McCain and Voinovich are all RINOs and should be replaced. The first item on the agenda for the new chairman of the RNC (Hopefully Blackwell) should be to try and put the conservative base in order by ridding us of the RINO and neocon factions.

When conservatives run as true conservatives with a conservative message, we win. All of the Republican losses from the last four years can be pinned directly on neocons or RINOs with a good smattering of globalists to coordinate each crisis for maximum damage to cause maximum advancement for the globalist agenda. Read todays front page on World Net Daily where Kissinger is quoted as saying Obama can use the latest series of crises to finally create the NWO.

71 posted on 01/08/2009 11:29:15 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"as sure as the sun rises in the east."

In Minnesota the people believe the sun rises in whatever direction the Democrats tell the people it does because Democrats are never wrong.

72 posted on 01/08/2009 11:31:52 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: St. Louis Conservative; 1stMarylandRegiment; 47carollann; A Citizen Reporter; A Cyrenian; adrian; ..
Missouri ping

Low volume ping list

FReepmail me to be on, or off, this list.

I'd run if I thought I could come up with the money to run.
I'd lose but................

73 posted on 01/08/2009 11:33:47 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

Boxer D(umbass) from CA is up in 2010.

Feinstein might also be, if she runs for Governor.


74 posted on 01/08/2009 11:39:35 AM PST by Mr Inviso
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To: Mr Inviso
Steelman needs to start the process now; not wait for other Republicans to get a head start. I won't miss Bond. He has become another Chuck Grassley or Dick Lugar—forgotten who sent him to Washington and why.
75 posted on 01/08/2009 11:46:02 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: AmericanGirlRising

Is’nt Salazar taking over Interior, so his seat will be need a challenge.


76 posted on 01/08/2009 11:49:36 AM PST by sunmars
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To: Russ

*sigh*


77 posted on 01/08/2009 11:50:41 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: LdSentinal

No way to Roy Blunt. Not a terrible guy, but he’s a “Bush Republican” if there ever was one. A guy who loved pork and loved lobbyists, plus the Blunt name isn’t too great in Missouri right now.

The best candidates would be Steelman, Kinder, or Akin. There may be a few others emerge. Carnahan is going to be tough, however 2010 should be friendlier territory than 06 or 08.


78 posted on 01/08/2009 11:58:04 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Is Bond scared Obama will campaign for whatever opponent may face him in 2010??

This is startin’ to look really rough folks.

Republicans bailing out like rats and a ship.


79 posted on 01/08/2009 12:00:55 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: ExSoldier
Read todays front page on World Net Daily where Kissinger is quoted as saying Obama can use the latest series of crises to finally create the NWO.

I read it last night and got a gut-ache. It sounds like we're heading to a combined North America, the Amero currency, and the rest of the NWO dribble that has average people calling us all tin-foil-hatters.

80 posted on 01/08/2009 12:28:35 PM PST by AmericanGirlRising (Buying carbon credits will not get me into Heaven. I am second - http://iamsecond.com/#/home/)
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