Posted on 04/23/2013 6:55:13 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is retiring rather than seek re-election in 2014, according to two senior Democratic strategists familiar with his plans. First elected in 1978, Baucus has been the top Democrat on the powerful committee since 2001. The likely Democratic candidate to succeed him would be former governor Brian Schweitzer, sources said.
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Well I did say “if”!
“The GOP as a national force is dead, and the situation in Montana and the Dakotas proves it.”
You certainly make a good point. It is my understanding, though, that the people of Montana are (or used to be) on the conservative side. It would make sense that this would be a good place for the conservatives to try to get a good, well-funding operation going.
Yes it’s the normal daughter. The one that is the fill in when Hannity is off.
“How do we uncalifornicate them?”
Send the east coasters back home.....
Why doesn't Liz Cheney run for the senate in a state she's actually lived in within the past 40 years? She has no ties to the state other than her father's name.
Not a chance! If Baucus retires, Schweitzer will get the dim nomination and go on to victory.
Schweitzer is a folksy guy who supports gun rights, bucks the mainstream dim line, and is generally liked by most Montanans.
There isn’t any Republican in Montana that can beat him.
Sorry to say!
The Senate campaign committee has been atrocious the past two cycles. Needs a house cleaning. I recall in 2010 that the Governor campaign committee for the party pretty much carried the races they were involved in, including support for some of the winning Senate campaigns. The Senate campaign arm needs to be replaced. They are too busy supporting losers like Dewhurst and Crist in primaries to be bothered with fixing their losing ways, though.
My guess is that the Slave Party constituency in Montana consists of unemployed resource extraction workers (miners, loggers, and such), their unemployable children, bureaucrats (eco-nazis and welfare administrators), and the legacy of mine workers' unions. Am I far off?
The establishment blew its wad in 2012, with losses everywhere. I think their credibility is shot. Palin and DeMint will have enormous influence in who gets the nominations. And even with the losses, we replaced Hutchison with Cruz, Kyle with Flake and essentially Deb Fisher replaced Lugar (the republican and democrat losses washed eachother) and Snowe and Scott Brown are gone.
In addition, senators like Paul, Cruz and Lee are in the ascendancy. Senators like McCain, Graham and Collins are no longer respected by republicans nationwide.
I don’t know. Where does she live?
Conservative states can keep Lefties out by continually advancing socially conservative legislation. Promote family values, break up the education monopoly, restrict or ban abortion, uphold gun rights. Many leftist CA escapees are attracted to the red states because of job opportunities and lower taxes. However, they are repelled by socially conservative values and culture which has likely impeded their migration to the deep South states. The Mountain West has generally been more libertarian, values that are seemingly compatable with superficial Leftist in the beginning. However, the superficial Leftist, the progressive if you like, has been duped by the authoritarian. It is these mindless drones, brainwashed by the authoritarian Left, that eventually destroy these once free states.
bump!
He recently said that the ObamaCare implementation was going to be a “train wreck.” I guess he didn’t want to hang around to take the blame for it. Time to open up a lobby firm on K Street.
Virginia.
On Fox News this morning they said when he goes home all he hears is problems with ObamaCare from his constituents. They ask for answers and he has none. He questions Sebelius and she has none. He said he sees a train wreck coming. He helped write ObamaCare legislation. He is toast.
LOL yep he knew!
Good news there... just can’t waste a pickup opportunity with an undisciplined candidate who blurts out idiotic comments about rape.
That makes six democrat senators retiring and ten freshmen up for reelection, not to mention Chambliss and Johannes retiring on the repulican side. If we play our cards right, the senate in 2015 could be a VERY conservative body!
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Does this mean it’s time for conservative Republicans to form circular firing squads? I hope not but have seen this happen way too often.
We should be able to pick up BOTH Senate seats from Montana — the “Democrat” seat being vacated as well as the Enzi seat. It will be important that we end up with both of these seats being in Republican hands. Liz Cheney is an excellent choice for one of the.
We definitely don’t want to do something stupid and commit major blunders with the result that both seats end up in Democrat hands. Don’t laugh, it could happen if conservative Republicans end up doing the stupid things only they seem to be capable of doing.
Beating Bacus in 2008 was a “huge opportunity”. Beating Tester in 2012 was a “huge opportunity”. Picking up the Kent Conrad seat was a “huge opportunity”.
The GOP as a national force is dead, and the situation in Montana and the Dakotas proves it.
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And the scent of defeatists and defeatism arises in the land.
Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot folks—and let’s try to avoid intramural political murders of fellow conservatives.
Good news there... just can’t waste a pickup opportunity with an undisciplined candidate who blurts out idiotic comments about rape.
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BINGO!
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