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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 18:43:14 PM MST
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Here's a strange article from a few days ago I saw mentioned elsewhere in the blogs - a report that seems to claim...that...help me out here...this past weekend's Democrat-a-palooza was actually bad for Montana Democrats:
Could all the attention that comes with visits by Clinton and Obama hurt the state party? It's a question that lingers behind the hoopla surrounding the rare events set for this weekend in Butte and Missoula.
Montana Republicans certainly believe the high-profile visits will negatively affect state Democrats, while acknowledging it will help the opposition organize and raise money. Democrats, however, say the excitement will help far more than it hurts....
"I'm not sure that any of them running for re-election, the governor for instance, wants to have their picture taken with either (presidential) candidate," Wilson said. "On the other hand, when you get ex-presidents coming in, and the top two candidates coming in, well, I can't remember a time that has ever happened."
I'm speechless.
Well, for a moment. |
| Jay Stevens :: Rehberg's biannual election shuffle |
| I know reporters get ideas from all kinds of sources, but this feels like it was scripted by the Montana Republican party. Weird. I mean, could a more convenient - and wrong -- spin be placed on this past weekend's excitement? The only other time I saw Missoula this excited about politics was in the late summer of 2006 - and you know how that turned out. If the excitement carries into the general election and Missoula mobilizes the way it did then, you have to think that'll tip key statewide races, and perhaps affect the composition of the legislature as well.
See, this hypothesis is upside-down and backwards. If anybody's deeply ambivalent about the image of their political affiliation in connection with the national party, it's Dennis Rehberg and the Montana GOP.
After all, our sole House representative is currently engaged in his biannual back-flipping from his voting record, while he and his supporters work furiously to disassociate his record and rhetoric from President Bush and the national party. While simultaneously praising Mr. 25 Percent!
It's a b*tch trying to raise funds from your far right supporters while keeping an eye on that general, isn't it?
I haven't seen rhetorical gymnastics this complex since...well...just a couple of months ago when he called CHIP "extremist ideology" then promptly voted for it - twice. Kinda like what happened with Real ID. Or with Richard-Pombo-authored public land grabs our representative so eagerly supported...for awhile.
(What was Rehberg's fascination with Richard Pombo? That Californian was one of the most corrupt members of the House of Representatives, and another pal of Jack Abramoff. Can you think of any other Rehberg pals that were involved in Abramoff scandals?)
Forget Schweitzer avoiding a photo-op with Hillary Clinton. Dennis Rehberg can't be seen in a photo with himself. |
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