Posted on 07/13/2013 8:56:37 AM PDT by Perdogg
Former Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Saturday he won’t run for the Senate in Montana — a surprise development that imperils Democrats’ chances of holding the seat in 2014.
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If the GOP takes back the senate then what is their excuse for doing nothing going to be?
That they don’t have the White House.
We actually saw that in play in 2007-2009. The RAT b*st*rds had majorities in both houses, but everything was still Bush’s fault because he was the president.
Schweitzer may have been first tier for the Democrats, but he had baggage galore (right down to gloating about helping steal the Senate race in 2006). The question remains whom is the best candidate for the Republicans to run (and it isn’t a given that they win the seat in a walk, as one is reminded of the fiasco in North Dakota last year). I’m frankly astonished that the Dems consider the head of the radical abortionist lobby EMILY’S List as a remotely viable candidate for the seat.
Just as an aside, this particular seat has the singular distinction of having gone the longest in the nation without electing a Republican. Indeed, no Republican has ever won the seat since the 17th Amendment was passed, the last being elected in 1907.
Let’s hope the RATs keep that seat so that we have more to whine about.
Good summary..and I suspect that we’ll see several more Dems retiring ( like Pryor in ARK) or key poential candidates deciding NOT to run//because they will be forced into defending Obama 24/7,and even if they manage to win a tough, expensive race, they’re most likely to be in the minority
Old Governor Brian Swindler. This explains why the Democrat papers have been pushing Lt Gov Walsh (D). Maybe those newspapers should push Walsh and Swindler to explain where that $23,000,000 missing from Walsh’s department went to.
Of course, we need to be aggressively challenging every seat, open or not, with the best possible candidates. The GOP has had an appalling record after 1980 with this. Would you believe that we haven’t beaten more than 2 incumbents per cycle since the Reagan landslide ? Not even in 1994. The Democrats almost routinely top that. Absent open Dem seats, we’d have been in the permanent minority after 1986.
If a pubbie wins that seat it will just be one more GOP vote for amnesty and every other big govt encroachment. As Hildebeast would say “what difference does it make?”
This is a great development, it makes the path to a majority easier. I’m guessing that the EMILY’S List chair would have access to big money. The other two have held statewide office.
I remember when Denny Rehberg ran last year, everyone assumed that it was a sure pickup, but I expressed concern that we could lose this. This race I’m hopeful about, but know better than to start popping the champagne bottles just yet.
I didn’t consider Schweitzer a slam-dunk for the Dems to hold the seat as it was. I’m thinking his withdrawal may have been an acknowledgement that he was going to have a lot of trouble answering for his record and antics. He wasn’t going to waltz into the job like Hoeven did in ND.
Congressman Daines was running extremely strongly in that PPP poll, almost as well as Racicot (who I doubt will run). Daines should be able to break the Curse of the Montana Class 2 Senate Seat.
Rats did not yet revert to their gun grabbing ways when Rehberg ran. A lot of rats will have to defend their votes for uniiversal backround checks whcih was opposed as a de facto registration scheme, a claim that's more plausible in light of the NSA scandal with the gov't acting like a Hoover vacuum.
All of the rats running for re-election in the Senate also have to defend Obamacare and a president who's been a miserable failure.
Wow he scares Baucus out of the race (though he may have quit anyway) and then he doesn’t even run. Thanks for the help, buddy. :D
YES! Montana is now a strongly lean GOP race. Let’s get a true conservative. Thank you, Schweitzer, you obviously didn’t want Obama around your neck.
I’ll take your word for it, from your keyboard to Gods ears.
Congressman Daines was running extremely strongly in that PPP poll, almost as well as Racicot (who I doubt will run). Daines should be able to break the Curse of the Montana Class 2 Senate Seat.
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