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Does (C)=(R)?

by: Matt Singer

Mon Nov 27, 2006 at 12:16:29 PM MST


Is Rick Jore a Constitutionalist or a Republican? Right now, he seems to be a Quantum Politician -- appearing when and where he wants before disappearing again. He denies being a Republican (says the party became too liberal for him), but now, for the purpose of having all House committees split half-and-half, he says that he should be considered a Republican.
Matt Singer :: Does (C)=(R)?
Unsurprisingly, the Republicans agree, but you don't see them clamoring for Jore to actually be counted as a Republican. They've got a problem with enough nutjobs in their party, they hardly need a man whose political party stands for the sell-off of all public lands (goodbye hunting and fishing for most Montanans) to be affiliated with them when they're already losing ground over their bad stances on public access.

Apparently, in the Montana legislature, you have to go notify the Secretary of State's office if you wish to change party affiliation. That's what Sam Kitzenberg had to do to become a Democrat. If Rick Jore wants to be a Republican, he should head over to Brad Johnson's office and change his party registration. That's his decision.

Until he does, though, we should stop pretending that 50-49-1 is a "tied" House.

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How many freaking years ... (0.00 / 0)
have we had to listen to the codswallop about Democrats being associated with headcase communists, radical environmentalists (terrists!), and that we all just sit around giving the country away while singing Kumbahya?  Most of the more fringe elements of the left wing didn't vote Dem in 2000, and hence we got Commander CrotchSuit in the White House.  They votes Green, along with many thoughtful and concerned people worried that the Democrats were no longer the liberal party.  But Republicants painted all with the same brush of freaky hippy librul commie nuts.

Sometimes, you really do reap what you sow in life.  The Republicans have become appealing to the racists, and so a NAZI ran under their banner in Butte.  To the state GOP's credit, they repudiated the man.  But they can't change the rules mid-game.  They are the party favored by white supremicists, hands down.  They are the party of fundie headcases, Rapture nuts and Christian apocalypse junkies.  They don't repudiate those folk, they value and promote them (Sinrud, Wells, Koopman.)  Jore fits right in, and like the embarrassing uncle who uses fart jokes at the holiday dinner table, they're stuck with their association to him.

The way most Republican politicians in this state behave, they aren't that different from the Constitutionalists ... they just think most of us are too stupid to see that.  They want iron fisted control of family life and the bedroom, they want societal benefit limited to those they define as worthy or productive, as well as the ability to profit off of the public's largess.  Looks pretty much like the Constitutional party platform to me.

It is my sincere hope that the Republicans grow the courage to take back the principles that they claim to support, and have sold off to their 'base' (fundies, constitutionalists, and white pride folks).  I seriously doubt it will happen, however.  Winning and control are the drugs that feed the modern Republican party, and have since at least 1994.  I expect that they will continue to sell their principles of individual freedoms and small government to those who really are control junkies and ideological hypocrites, like the Constitutionalists.  If Jore is smart (and I don't gather that he's a stupid fellow) he will play the house Republicans like a poorly tuned drum.


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