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[MT] Candidate Shocks Party and Himself
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 12, 2008 01:21pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Monday, August 11, 2008 07:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: August 11, 2008
BUTTE, Mont. — What about Bob?
That is the head-scratching question in Montana this election season, especially here in Butte, a tough old mining city that is home to Bob Kelleher, the surprise Republican nominee in the race against Senator Max Baucus, the longtime Democratic incumbent.
To call Mr. Kelleher’s ascent among Republicans improbable would be a sweeping understatement, even to him.
“I don’t know how it happened,” Mr. Kelleher, 85, said of finishing ahead of five challengers in the Republican primary in June. “I guess they finally said, ‘That old bastard’s right.’ ”
The state Republican Party chairman, Erik Iverson, is less charitable. He even refused to allow Mr. Kelleher to speak at the party’s convention in June. Mr. Iverson suggested that primary voters were confused in selecting Mr. Kelleher, though he granted that Mr. Kelleher’s name was probably the most widely known because of his 15 or so other bids for various offices over the last half century as a Republican, a Democrat and a Green.
“Bob’s ideology, with the exception that he’s pro-life, doesn’t even remotely resemble the platform of the Montana Republican Party,” Mr. Iverson said.
So what is the problem with Mr. Kelleher? Well, for one thing, he is almost certainly the only major party candidate anywhere who has pledged (as he did in previous campaigns) to scrap a cornerstone of the Constitution. |
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