The Backstab Party
Posted on 02/26/2023 4:09:47 AM PST by cotton1706
State legislators in the Flathead Valley are — like the former governor himself — unsurprised by the Montana Republican Party’s public break up with Marc Racicot.
The two-term Republican governor, who served from 1993 to 2001, earned a formal rebuke from the state party organization’s executive committee on Feb. 15. The decision comes after Racicot endorsed a series of Democrats in recent state and national elections, party leadership said.
“It was a difference between party platforms and principles and I decided I would choose principles,” Racicot said last week.
The former governor said he was unfazed by a text from the party chairman, Don Kaltschmidt, on Thursday, Feb. 16, sharing the group's decision before it went public.
“Out of deep respect for you I wanted to give you a heads up of a resolution that the executive board of the MTGOP made at last night’s board meeting,” the text read. “The resolution rebukes you for supporting the candidates you have in the last couple cycles and says that the MTGOP does not consider you as a person that speaks for the party.”
Racicot said he called Kaltschmidt after receiving the message and the two had a civil conversation.
“I feel sad about it and I’m sorry about it, but I think for me I did what I thought was correct,” Racicot said. “I did what I thought was right.”
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And his Lieutenant-Governor, Denny Rehberg, failed to defeat then-freshman Senator Jon Tester in 2012.
About damn time they "break" with this RINO!
He endorsed Biden F him he’s a swamper Bushie war monger
It sounds to me like Marc Racicot is simply doing in public what the GOPe & Vichy Republicans (Uniparty) have been doing for a long time. Especially when an America First Candidate is on the ballot.
Think Arizona 2022.
If he’s endorsing democrats, principles are the last reason for it. No, he did not do what is right as democrats don’t. Abortion is murder and homosexuality is immoral. No one can support those and be right.
IOW, a democrat who deceitfully ran under the Republican ticket.
Many do so because it is the way to political power. If the majority in the state or district were Democrats, they would immediately switch. There is no adherence to fundamental beliefs in things like limited government and fiscal sanity, it is all about attaining and maintaining political power.
Big disappointment when he could have walked into the senate. Job isn’t good enough for him. Just as well. Getting exposed 20 years too late.
I agree. I remember this guy.
IIRC, he spoke at CPAC one year.
Or Washington’s 3rd District in 2022!
About time...
Just like Chris Sununu in New Hampshire.
Amazing how the Democrats can "elect" a Uncle Festerman in Pennsyltucky - but the Republicans keep dropping the ball in the Senate every time.
Almost like they're doing it on purpose...
Racicot, a Catholic, IMHO is deeply influenced by what is called “social justice”, particularly as practiced by the liberation theology leftists of the Church.
Personally, Racicot is a likable enough and decent chap, but his adherence to the marxist branch of the Church is a millstone around his neck.
Those seats are gone for 6 years every time we lose one. It works both ways. Ayotte lost by 600 votes in NH(2016). Didn’t like her but hey, it was a butt in the seat. We’re done supporting Rinos. They never supported us.
Which makes him as much a Catholic as he is a Republican.
"None of this is surprising from a man who arguably began politics with some ambivalence. Born into a largely Democratic family, Racicot was rumored to have debated his party affiliation before he ran for attorney general in 1988. Racicot laughs now about his parents’ political ties. He describes his late father, a lifelong Democrat, as having been “evolving politically” over the years, even voting for Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980. “He admitted that in 1984,” he says. Asked what his father would think of Racicot now, and his prominent national position, he again quips: “There would be special challenges, with him offering commentary if he were here.”
"Racicot first ran for office at age thirty-one, setting his sights high on the Montana Supreme Court chief justice race. Racicot lost that bid and two more before he found success running as a Republican in the attorney general’s race against Democrat Mike McGrath."
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