Posted on 06/06/2008 5:14:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
He lost.
RINOs now in green...
This is just beyond weird.
It’s always darkest...whatever
I could see if this guy was some kind of libertarian, but he’s not from how I see it.
The GOP is losing it, and I just joined last October.
Way beyond. Mind-boggling even to realize that so many "Republicans" in Montana are so ignorant as to be unable to discern that the Green Party is to the left of the democratic party, and vote for Kelleher.
Now I know how the IL rats felt when Larooshies were nominated on their ballot lines.
I wish I could say this is a surprise. But it's just the latest clusterf*** from our completely incompetent party "leaders". And the ill-informed primary electorate probably voted against the establishment candidate for a guy they knew nothing about, always a great idea.
Maybe these links offer a solution but probably not.
“Mind-boggling even to realize that so many “Republicans” in Montana are so ignorant as to be unable to discern that the Green Party is to the left of the democratic party”
Republicans didn’t have a viable candidate, so the primary got virtually no press.
I heard about this primary, showing once again how bizarre MT is becoming. I don’t think the Repubicans were planning to run against that Democrat senator anyway. VT Republicans ran a candidate like this against Leahy about ten years ago. MT nearly always favors Democrats for U.S. senator and governor, and I don’t think we can convince them otherwise.
The theme of Kelleher's campaign was "no more tax cuts until hunger, health, HRDC, and job needs are satisfied and social security, Medicare and Medicaid funds are secure." Ballot Access News reports that Kelleher apparently raised less than $5,000, as he did not file FEC reports.The theme of the Demwit opponent will be "no more Kelleher"... ;') *This* guy is an actual RINO. ;') Thanks neverdem.
It hasn't always been so. I bet if the party closed the open primaries in the states they exist things would be very different.
I would tend to agree, but experience has proved the opposite can still be true. NY has had closed primaries for ages. I was a member of the NY Conservative Party. NY is infamous for its RINOs. I changed registration to vote for Thompson who dropped out before its primary. I had to change registration at least 25 days before the last general election in November 2007.
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