I don’t quite know how to describe this other than it’s surely one of a kind without being kind to Democratic policies that help people. I won’t say, “enjoy,” but I will say, “watch — and watch out.”
Tuesday’s election in Whitefish proved that Rep. Skees’ odds of winning re-election in House District 4 in 2012 were vanishingly small. But don’t count him out as state auditor just yet. He intends to make the election a referendum on the federal Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). Monica Lindeen needs to take him seriously.
Skees is offering himself as a champion of an Ayn Rand inspired libertarian utopia in which you are free to choose not to have health insurance, but are forbidden to band together with your fellow citizens in a “we the people” (government) pool to reduce risk and increase security.