Long Story Short, Max Baucus was a Democrat albatross shipped off to China as an ambassador (to save some face). His sterling ‘conservative Democrat’ replacement was busted for having plagiarized the majority of his Army War College thesis. He bailed.
Left to decide at the Montana Democrat Party State Convention, the curdled cream of Montana’s left wing crop, cloistered amongst themsleves, picked the candidate they really, really (really-really) wanted. A Total moon bat.
Montana’s open Senate Seat is almost guaranteed to go to the GOP in November, which is good and bad. Good to get the seat, bad because all those staffers will probably fly to NH and vote here for Demobrat Jeanne Shaheen.
Here is Montana Democrat State Rep. Amanda Curtis behaving the way all Democrats wish they could behave all the time. (Feel free to compare her to the local Democrats around New Hampshire.)
