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Topic: Republican senate candidate to run against opponent from the left
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Doug
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posted 05 June 2008 12:01 PM
Yes - this is freaky: quote: Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Kelleher wants a "nonviolent revolution" to overthrow the foundation of American government. He favors enormous, FDR-style government work programs to reduce poverty; he wants to nationalize the American oil and gas industries and supports government-run, socialized medicine. He has little nice to say about President Bush or former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot.Political scientists and the head of the Montana Republican Party say Kelleher, 85, isn't really a Republican at all. And yet Kelleher beat five mostly conservative to moderate GOP candidates to become the Republican who will take on Democrat Sen. Max Baucus in the fall.
Bob Kelleher's weird Republican primary win in Montana
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Ken Burch
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posted 09 June 2008 02:22 PM
This guy sounds good.A Republican who uses Tommy Douglas' "mouseland" metaphor. Who'd a thunk it? This could be a return of a very old political tradition in the Plains/Prairie states. There were once "Farmer-Labor" groups in those states, a number of whom worked through the Republican party organization for left-populist economic change. Senator Robert "Fightin' Bob" LaFollette of Wisconsin was the most famous example of this, as well as Senator George Norris of Nebraska. Wayne Morse, the Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democratic Senator from Oregon(one of only two U.S. Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that LBJ used to get the U.S. committed to obliterating Vietnam)was born in Wisconsin and reared in that tradition as well. This could take the country in some interesting places. [ 09 June 2008: Message edited by: Ken Burch ]
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KenS
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posted 10 June 2008 11:18 PM
quote: This could be a return of a very old political tradition in the Plains/Prairie states.
This is always there just below the surface, with the potential to get more traction here and there. But Kelleher is not part of any trend. He's a fluke in a vacuum. And BTW, it's not really a general Plains/Prarie state thing. Particular states have this dimension. Oregon, Montana, Wisconsin, Vermont, Maine come to mind first. You don't find this in Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois.
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Ken Burch
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posted 11 June 2008 10:30 AM
Nebraska produced populist Senator George Norris.Iowa produced Agriculture Secretary, Vice President, Commerce secretary and 1948 Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry Wallace. So there were at least some strains of it in some of those states. If it wasn't universal to the region, it was at least widespread. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota can also be considered at least somewhat of that tradition.
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