Montandon compares Sandoval to Palin

But not in a nice way.

Mike Montandon -- I don't know, some corporate whore running for governor -- has written a letter (via Ralston) to supporters claiming that Brian Sandoval -- currently the flavor of the month in the GOP gubernatorial primary -- is a big fat quitter! First, Sandoval quit the Assembly to run for attorney general. Then Sandoval quit as AG to take a district judge appointment,
 

...virtually handing the office to a liberal Democrat in the next election.  And now, Brian Sandoval says he will quit his job as a Federal Judge and give Barack Obama the opportunity to appoint another liberal judge to the Federal bench.  

 Since when is quitting a qualification for Governor?  And even more egregious, when quitting advances the cause of liberalism, it is the duty of good Republicans to challenge the quitter and defeat him in the Primary Election.

How delightful to see that Mike Montandon thinks Nevada AG Catherine Cortez Masto is a liberal. At this point in the proceedings, when so many of us know so little about some of these people, little hints like this can clue us in to the mindset and analytical powers of the candidates. And I'd like to go way out on a limb and suggest that Montandon is fucking idiot.

"Also" (as Ms. Palin might say), liberalism?

Who gives a rat's taint about liberalism anymore? If Montandon would get down off his high horse and bother to go to a town hall and angrily shake his fist in the air with the teabaggers and other real Americans, he'd know that the concern these days is socialism, not liberalism. If a multi-candidate primary has any hope of allowing Jim Gibbons to win the nomination, Montandon needs to get his head in the game.

Comments

[dave404]

The Gibbons, Heck, Montandon, Sandoval primary will drain even the largess of the political elites of this state. I hope the D's don't do the 2006 dance....but if a female legislator doesn't agree with a certain US senator's selection and decides to go her own way in the primary, then oh, it could be 2006 all over again and.....well, that governor race didn't turn out so good.

[Rich]

Dave - if there's a way top fuck it up Nevadans will do it.

[NevadaSucks]

Gotta love this state.

BOTH Tark Jr. and Sue Lowden beat Harry Reid in the latest polls. TarBaby Tark bests senior Reid by 11 points.

The Nevada rurals will be like Ohio is in the presidental election -- crucial for Reid to win, but he will not, with a divided So. Nevada.

Two GOP lightweights beat Reid?

What did the ham sandwich get?

Poor Uncle Harry has had how many years now to make himself popular in Nevada?

This is going to be Tom Daschle all over again.

And, I agree that TWO Reids on the same ballot spells trouble for both.

Barbara Buckley, if nominated, won't do well in the rurals, either. She'd lose big to Sandoval because as a Hispanic, he'd do very well down south, and be a cinch up north, where they don't like bitchy liberal ladies.

Nov. 2010, as it looks now: Governor Sandoval; Senator Ham Sandwich

[David McKee]

Following Barbara Buckley's Oscar-worthy impersonation of a moderate Republican in the most recent Lege, I fail to see how a Sandoval-over-Buckley outcome represents a setback for the state. She's better at rearranging R.M.S. Titanic deck chairs than is Jim Gibbons, but that's like saying being alive is preferable to being dead.

[Trig]

Not smart of him to insult Mom like that. Now she's going to have to shoot him from a helicoptor.

[Painin]

Thats for keeping my name out there.

[Tailspinterry]

Actually, Montandan did fire up the birthers, deathers, truthers, teabaggers, and other assorted loons at Heidi Harris's Hatefest, er Town Hall, at Stoney's. To his credit, he looked a mite sheepish up there in a preppy blazer over jeans. It's one thing to rail about liberals and another to align oneself with the La Rouchies.

[Nevada Ned]

The RJ poll had Lowden 45, Reid 40, with a 5% margin of error, and as Jane Morrison remarked in the RJ yesterday, that makes the race a statistical tie. Reid is very concerned, I'm sure, but not in panic mode.

Maybe Reid can get a proxy to convince Mary Kincaid-Chauncy (former County Commissioner) to run for Senator. If she is out of jail by now.

Or maybe the Republican candidate should be Vin Suprinowicz of the RJ, who proposed last Sunday to abolish Medicare and Medicaid.

[David McKee]

Vin's paper must have a death wish if it's letting him propose pulling the plug on its core readership (i.e., Medicare-eligible, tetchy old farts).

Dunno about Reid Sr., but if I were the Culinary Union, I'd be praying for a Lowden/Reid tilt. The Culinary left its footprints all over Ms. Lowden back in '96 and can carry a grudge to the ends of the earth. Tarkanian *fils* might not present such a target-rich environment.