A long, rough road to the Democrat’s nominating convention
This will be a long, turbulent week for Montana’s Democrats as they prepare for their Senate nominating convention on Saturday in Helena. There’s no shortage of online analysis, and some of it falls into the must read category:
- Montana Cowgirl provide a clear, concise description of how the convention will do its business.
- Don Pogreba at Intelligent Discontent discusses the dilemma facing the Democrats, and identifies the categories of candidates from which the delegates will have to choose.
- Mike Dennison at the Missoulian and other Lee newspapers provides an astute analysis of how Montana’s Democrats ended up in a box canyon instead of on the road to Washington, D.C., after Max Baucus suddenly decided to retire.
My sources report that some — I’ll identify them once I confirm their names — who want the nomination are pushing hard, perhaps too hard, already annoying delegates to the convention.
My advice to the delegates:
- Remember that all candidates have flaws while few have money.
- Nominate a liberal Democrat with a sunny disposition, someone who radiates hope and optimism (think of FDR and Reagan), someone who can make Democrats feel good about themselves, someone who doesn’t have a closet full of clicking and rattling bones.
- Reject candidates who support the death penalty, and who think the most important issue is the national debt.
