He got elected because he ran as a Conservative. All Democrats did in 2006.
Not only did he “run as a Conservative” (aka lie like a **** rug), but the dims hijacked the open primary by putting an old screwball in as his opposition and then had Silver Bow County and the Reservations “adjust” the final vote count the way they wanted it to finish.
Schweitzer (the dim Governor) was caught later bragging about his neat ol’ time job of vote fraud, but all the lawyers and media in the state gave him a pass ‘cause he was “just joking”.
Oh, yeah, JohnBoy’s really up there on my ****list.