Idaho Governor Beats Back Challenge From Trump-Backed Lt. Guv.

Idaho’s governor Brad Little on Tuesday night beat back a challenge in the Republican primary from the state’s lieutenant governor, Janice McGeachin.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1415413

A pleasant surprise

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Yup. No way dems get the Idaho statehouse so less crazy on the R ticket is better.

Also notch up another “L” for the losing loser who endorses losers.

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McCretin gets just-desserted.

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57-7 (Trump’s primary record)

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Sorry, McGeachin, you’re never gonna get access to the state plane. Maybe ask Kristi Noem for a ride?

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Wow. Really?

He does a lot of cherry picking. Not to say he doesn’t sway some races too. Sadly.

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Also, the GOP is full of freaks, in the not-a-good-freak sense.

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Well, don’t fret, there’s always “The Masked Singer,” Your Imperial Lite Guverness.

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The primary record (since 2016) is John Wooden like. That said, he and his cronies usually turn it into a Bill Goldberg spectacle.

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She was a nut a REAL NUT from day One of her tenure.

Hope she disappears into Palin-land.

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She can join Michele Bachmann there.

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She had many in Idaho thinking of moving if she won.

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The state that gave us Frank Church.
How far we’ve fallen.

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This far and no further?

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Al Gore, Bob Kerrey, George McGovern, Jay Rockefeller…the list goes on…

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It was a relief that she couldn’t make it even on a Republican primary ballot in Idaho.

It is to be hoped that the Republican fad for Cray Cray becomes a passing folly.

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Some of you may recall “Lazlo Toth”. This was the pseudonym of a satirist who wrote phony right wing letters to republican public officials and then published their sympathetic replies (look up “The Lazlo Letters”).

I often think these days that an aspiring Lazlo could simply copy the standard tropes that aspiring RW candidates spew out to their rubes into a news letter and generate quite a few votes without even making a physical appearance in front of a camera or a crowd. They might even get nominated or elected.

McGeachin is just this much closer to open rebellion is my guess.