I’m usually a big fan of my home state of Montana, but when it comes to our schizophrenic politics, color me dissatisfied. How in God’s name did Montana re-elect Sen. Jon Tester after he smeared President Trump’s personal physician, Admiral Ronny Jackson, to stop his nomination as director of Veterans Affairs? President Trump, who won
Montana conservatives have been leery of Attorney General Tim Fox for a lot of reasons. Now they have another one. Fox has manufactured a phony charge of “insider trading” against Congressman Greg Gianforte, one of his two opponents in the GOP gubernatorial primary. Here’s my column today from Real Clear Politics calling out Fox for
If Gov. Steve Bullock succumbs to pressure and runs for Senate against Sen. Steve Daines in Montana, he will find himself caught between a lie and a hard place. Bullock has sworn up and down the cable news lineup that he won’t run for Senate, hell no, but after being wooed by Sen. Chuck “Pay
I am so delighted to discover that Dr. Ronny Jackson is running for Congress in the 13th District in Texas. Jackson, you will remember, was President Trump’s White House physician and his pick to be the secretary of Veterans Affairs until he was scurrilously attacked by my home-state senator, Jon Tester, as a drunk, a
Montana Republicans must be chomping at the bit. They have to see running room ahead as they vie to retake the governor’s mansion for the first time in 16 years. That’s because there are three highly qualified Republicans running in the June primary, and the winner will be taking on one of two Democrats who
I’ve learned from Rudy Koestner that the Flathead County Republican Central Committee will bring Charlie Kirk — one of the leading Trump supporters in the nation — to Kalispell for a special appearance on Saturday, March 14. Kirk will talk about his new book “The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future”
A surprise benefit of impeachment is that it has forever shattered the myth of the moderate Democrat. As a resident of Montana, I have had to live through the Jon Tester charade for the last 14 years. Sen. Tester, the small-town rancher, ran on the proposition that he wanted to make Washington, DC, more like
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock just dropped out of the presidential race. Let me know if you are surprised. Even I — a political analyst based in Montana — could find absolutely no reason to take seriously Bullock’s doomed campaign. I wrote about him in May as a warning to the nation that he was a
Montana is, in many respects, a microcosm of the political war underway in the United States. It is a state that was founded on traditional values, yet seems oddly inclined to govern from a progressive point of view. It is a state that is deep red from border to border, but dominated by several blue