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.
Good point. The Dems have a younger man in the wings who will hold the seat for another 20 years.
“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.
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.
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.
there has been funny business in the elections up there...Tester was part of it....