Daines Senate Seat 2026

I am aware voting for Libertarians is essentially universally hopeless, but I've written folks in or refused to vote on races in the past where I viewed both candidates as wells too poisoned to drink from so that doesn't bother me. I find it interesting in my own psyche, that I am considering the libertarian candidates no less than the others. Because I have met Tom and believe he is at the very least earnest, I will be considering him. My fear with Libertarians is always their de facto position on public lands and waters and wildlife viewed as a public trust, but I think he is more of a "pragmatic libertarian" as opposed to one who reads Friedrich Hayek.


 
I am aware voting for Libertarians is essentially universally hopeless, but I've written folks in or refused to vote on races in the past where I viewed both candidates as wells too poisoned to drink from so that doesn't bother me. I find it interesting in my own psyche, that I am considering the libertarian candidates no less than the others. Because I have met Tom and believe he is at the very least earnest, I will be considering him. My fear with Libertarians is always their de facto position on public lands and waters and wildlife viewed as a public trust, but I think he is more of a "pragmatic libertarian" as opposed to one who reads Friedrich Hayek.


I know it's not remotely possible, but organizing a write-in campaign to get Tester to win the Republican primary would be hilarious.
 
I am aware voting for Libertarians is essentially universally hopeless, but I've written folks in or refused to vote on races in the past where I viewed both candidates as wells too poisoned to drink from so that doesn't bother me. I find it interesting in my own psyche, that I am considering the libertarian candidates no less than the others. Because I have met Tom and believe he is at the very least earnest, I will be considering him. My fear with Libertarians is always their de facto position on public lands and waters and wildlife viewed as a public trust, but I think he is more of a "pragmatic libertarian" as opposed to one who reads Friedrich Hayek.


Lots of solid sound bites on the webpage. Good luck to him. I have met a lot of Libertarians who were earnest. They also had no idea how an economy worked. It's like he wants to encourage you to bury money in coffee cans in the back yard.

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Lots of solid sound bites on the webpage. Good luck to him. I have met a lot of Libertarians who were earnest. They also had no idea how an economy worked. It's like he wants to encourage you to bury money in coffee cans in the back yard.

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When my wife's grandmother died, one of the great gifts she left us was the hidden money all over her home. Coffee cans, pillow cases, random envelopes, $7 in the matchbox by the wood stove.... The gift wasn't the 63 bucks, but the hunt. ;)
 
Both live in a fantasy world

I'm starting to believe that all politicians do, and given the fact that none would likely get their way, perhaps their chief utility is to serve as a gravitational force to pull our heading a few degrees in some direction, as opposed to their destination of choice.

In this context of Hunt Talk, my fear with any of them on the "right", is whether or not they will stand up to irreversible decisions related to that which my life really revolves around in the short, medium, and long term - public lands.
 

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