This is just my theory with not much fact to back it up.
So since Barack Obama was elected President a huge jolt and shaken our states republican party.
Our Wing nuts have come back to life with a new enemy to fight in Washington.
About a month ago the chairman of the ND republican party announced that they are picking their candidates for the 2010 mid-term elections for Sen. Byron Dorgan and Rep. Earl Pomeroy on or around Labor Day.
Now this date won't seem too odd for people from other states but in North Dakota it is very odd because usually the republicans don't pick and announce the people who are running until like 6 months before the election date.
Republicans are going to push hard and this cycle they are not going to pick two more lambs to lead to the slaughter like they have been over the last 14 years or more.
Gov. John Hoeven is rumored to be the man to be picked to run against Sen. Dorgan but there are no rumors for the person running against Pomeroy for his house seat.
I have been ignoring the House race until I ran across a Tea Party website. It seems like next month there will be a Tea Party held in the capital city of Bismarck and their big name guest is former Gov and former Sec. of Agriculture under George Bush, Ed Schafer.
After Obama was sworn in and being out of a job Schafer quit politics and said it publicly many times and wrote into our big papers stating the such.
I find it odd that Schafer would go to a Tea Party because as Gov Schafer was never really a Wing Nut because Schafer and current Gov. Hoeven never were really out spoken pure red republicans. Freepers would call them RINOs through and through, but both were very popular govs. Schafer could have run again but left after 2 terms.
So for Schafer to attend a Tea Party protest gets me to thinking that he's going to run again and since Hoeven is said to be thinking about going against Dorgan that Schafer may go for the House race.
This gets me to thinking that the reason the republicans are more ready to go is that they are going to do a double whammy campaign in 2010 with a two Gov. ticket and double team Dorgan and Pomeroy.
Schafer maybe attending the tea party in hopes a whipping up the base and starting to gain campaign founds.
Just my crazy thought.