[MainstreamConservative]

"Brown, we need to keep in reserve to succeed Conrad Burns in the Senate in '06, this guy is a solid Conservative."

Is Sen. Burns going to retire in 2006?

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Is Sen. Burns going to retire in 2006?"

I don't know, but he'll be 72 at the start of that term and I'm wondering if he might not be considering retirement by then. Only 2 sitting Senators have run for reelection at that age or older in MT, and only 1 (James Murray) was successful in winning. When Murray finally retired in 1961 at the age of 84, he went home and died 2 months later.