MT-Sen: John Walsh out, Amanda Curtis in

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Walsh is a pretty awful candidate, Dems should have nominated Bollinger, they made a mistake anointing Walsh, he's going to crash and burn and they are going to lose this seat. Bollinger would have won

Daines would've absolutely wiped the floor with Bollinger.  Walsh was definitely a far stronger candidate than Bollinger before the palgerism came out.  He probably still is tbh, although this is definitely not good.  Ultimately, I think what will hurt Walsh more is that his response is basically that it happened because he had PTSD (true or not, it reminds me of when Bob Nye tried to blame his scandal on alcoholism). 

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Who cares about plagiarism?

Montana isn't Germany.
Seriously, that will last 1week, and after, nothing more.

No, it is getting play and Walsh bungled his response.  This is probably fatal although I will wait for polling confirmation.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Who cares about plagiarism?

Montana isn't Germany.
Seriously, that will last 1week, and after, nothing more.

No, it is getting play and Walsh bungled his response.  This is probably fatal although I will wait for polling confirmation.

Why did the NYT have to look into this?

Because it raises legitimate questions about Walsh's judgement and character.  Walsh stole a good chunk of his thesis from someone else's work and got a diploma out of it.  I am as bummed about this as any Democrat, but the fact is that this is a legitimate (albeit boring) scandal and the New York Times was simply doing their job by reporting it.  I doubt the red avatars would be calling it a non-story if Daines were the one who did this.  Honestly, Paul (or much more likely someone on his staff) did plagiarize some stuff, but Walsh's was objectively much worse as far as such things go.  I know some of my fellow Dems don't want hear that, but we've got to be objective about these things and politics in general.  Otherwise you'll slowly lose the ability to analyze politics objectively at all and end up like the tea-party (i.e. convinced politicians would win everywhere if only they'd grow a pair and ignore everyone except the activist of your ideological stripe; and then always be shocked when candidates who only try to appeal to people like you lose).  It is a slippery slope once you start throwing objectivity out the window on even minor things in politics.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

How about Schweitzer?

He's too busy being an asshole to do the right thing for his party and run.

Yes, how dare Schweitzer do what's best for him and his family instead of doing what's best for the people who gleefully waged a vicious smear campaign against him after a minor gaffe

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Walsh's degree has been revoked.

Serves him right!