Rosendale vs Zinke

[MT Treasurer]

Never underestimate Ryan Zinke's talent for weathering a problematic past with his time-tested combination of a carefully crafted persona that reinvents itself with each talk show host/audience it meets, a healthy dose of superficial/slick Navy SEAL charm, and the reddest of red meat.

I prefer Rosendale as a legislator/man, but more principled candidates don’t necessarily (and arguably rarely) make better candidates. I’d trust Zinke to navigate a competitive statewide election sooner than I’d trust Rosendale.

Obviously Gianforte would be preferable to either, but I do think Democrats on this board (and elsewhere) overstate how "easy" an opponent Zinke in particular would be.