I really hope he runs. If nothing else, we’ll have somebody in there that’s viable if Hillary proves to be a drag on Baucus. It seems Baucus keeps hanging in there, though.
Baucus keeps drawing second tier opponents. Dennis Rehberg was near-first tier when he ran in 1996, but would be even stronger today... but he won’t run. We just can’t move all these top notch Republicans to look beyond their narrow interests to do the right thing for party and country. :-(
Baucus won his last race by smearing his opponent (without a shred of proof) as a “gay hairdresser.” If a Republican had run a campaign like that, he’d have been denounced from Maine to Hawaii as a major league homophobe and gay basher, but because he’s a Watergate baby rodent, all is forgiven (and the article fails to cite that he has been in Congress not since 1979, but 1975, he was in the House before the Senate). Time for the trash to go (I mean, for heaven’s sake, he was in the Senate with Frank Church ! Frank f’ing Church ! Back when neighboring ID still sent Marxists to Congress).
...and he served with McGovern, too. How could I forget that ?