Bob Kelleher, the surprise winner of the Montana Republican primary campaign for the Senate, says this of his conversion from the realm of perpetual candidacy in the Green and Democratic Party to his current alignment as perpetual candidate (and victor amongst) of the Republican Party:

Kelleher said he split from the Democrats and the Green Party because Republicans share his ideas of being pro-life and wanting unity of powers in the government.

Previously he stated, fairly accurately seeing as he runs on every which political party, that party affiliation does not matter because nobody is bound by Party Platforms, so this sort of seems to be a weasley in explaining his Republican Party affiliation.  But it is an interesting reason in one respect.  Kelleher advocates changing our system of government to a Parliamentary system which would effectively put one Party or the other in charge as a bloc as oppsosed to endless compromises made within a party and across party in our legislative body and compromised with the powers of the executive bod.  Here we see him placing his advocacy of a Parliamentary System in line and places it in line behind the “Unitary Executive” of expansive powers vested into the Executive Body and particularly his liberal use of Signing Statements.  This seems arcane to posit as a political party’s ideology and something to campaign on — partly an advocacy of the dismissal of Congressional Perogatives I’d suppose — but I guess it is what Bob Kelleher has to work with, and as this is George W Bush’s legacy, I guess you have to suggest it is fairly accurate.

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