With Congressman Denny Rehberg throwing his hat into the ring to take on Senator Jon Tester, it leaves the Montana’s 2012 House race wide open.

U.S. Senate candidate Steve Daines announced that he was changing races; now he is running for the open U.S. House seat (an “open seat” refers to a race where there’s no incumbent running for re-election) and a State Legislator, Franke Wilmer, has decided to jump into the race.

Rest assured there will be more candidates; I predict many more. In the 2010 primary election, there were seven candidates on the ballot and that was with incumbent Congressman Rehberg on the ballot. I expect there will be at least that many candidates as open seats stir the emotions of people and they remember the “immortal” words of Stuart Smalley, “Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggonit, people like me!” Continue reading →