Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) was forced into retirement after admitting the damage he and his liberal colleagues had done via the ObamaCare “train wreck”.
Scandals caught up with heir-apparent former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer, forcing him to pull out of the upcoming Senate race.
Senator Jon Tester, while not on the ballot next year, has been trying his best lately to move to the right, away from the mess his Democrat party and the Obama administration have created. He knows his incumbency hangs by a thread.
Steve Daines, Montana’s conservative representative in the House, is the leading candidate to replace Baucus in the Senate. There are no viable Democrat contenders. And today Liz Cheney threw her very large hat into the ring, squaring off against squishy Republican Senator Mike Enzo in the Wyoming primary.
Anyone who has paid attention to Liz Cheney over the last several years knows that she is tough, intelligent, polished, deeply educated on the issues, and solidly conservative. She is virtually impossible to defeat in debate. Establishment (as in moderate) Republicans are outraged. Alan Simpson, former Wyoming senator, said Cheney’s candidacy “threatens to start a civil war within the state’s Republican establishment, despite the reverence many hold for her family.”
The electoral losses in 2012 were devastating to conservatives. Many “right-siders” threw up their hands and decided to just let the liberal Democrats and moderate incumbent Republicans hang themselves with their own ill-conceived policies.
Maybe that plan is coming to fruition – the Rocky Mountain Way.
Tom Balek – Rockin’ on the Right Side
And, we don’t need the ladies
Crying ’cause the story’s sad
‘Cause the Rocky Mountain Way –
It’s better than the way we had!
Rockin' On The Right Side 
I have urged SteveDaines not to run for the Senate seat. Looking at his record in the House, as a conservative the Heritage Foundation has rated him as a 59…unacceptably low! Looking at his voting record he is a big spending big government establishment republican, exactly what the majority of Montanans do not want. Several solid conservatives are contemplating getting into the race and if any one of them runs and Daines also runs it will then split the GOP vote and the democrat will win. That is how Tester won with only 49% of the vote and the democrats would love for us to help them in that manner again. Jim Johnson