And no, this time it’s not McCaskill or stimulus-related. According to Dave Catanese’s Twitter feed, Missouri Speaker Richard said that he was speaking ahead of the “next US Senator.” The next speaker at the Lincoln Day festivities just happened to be Roy Blunt.
Do we have some coalescing around a consensus candidate?
I think she could make a good primary run regardless of what many of the Republican establishment says.
Steelman “very, very likely to run.”
And for evidence of a rift in the Republican party, here’s a nice recent article. With this in the air, it would be quite easy for Steelman to run as a more populist outside Republican against a long-time Washington guy.