Will Old Ties Put GOP in a Bind?

Portman, Blunt Tagged ‘Insiders’

• By John McArdle
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 26, 2009, Midnight

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is clearly smitten with the candidacies of former Rep. Rob Portman in Ohio and Rep. Roy Blunt in Missouri, but will the two men’s ties to the Washington, D.C., political establishment and the Bush administration come back to haunt the GOP in 2010?