Ted Stevens' GOP primary opponent says: "George Bush is the Worst President"

[rox63]

Senator Ted Stevens's inevitable indictment yesterday made one Alaska Republican deliriously happy: lawyer and economic historian Vic Vickers, who's mounting a very-generously-self-funded primary campaign against Stevens.

Not so happy: national GOPers. Or they won't be when they get a load of exactly what kind of Republican their electoral savior is.

The best hope the GOP has in Alaska is for a fresh face to knock off Stevens in the August 26 primary, allowing Republicans to approach the general election from higher ground. Well -- Vickers is nothing if not fresh. "As an American historian, I’ve studied every president," he told me over the phone today from Anchorage, "and I can say with authority that George Bush is the worst president in American history."

Oh, yes. Vic Vickers is a George-W.-Bush-hating, Exxon-despising, Iraq-War-loathing Republican who wants to "put an end to the stranglehold that Big Oil" has on Alaska and has an Iraq withdrawal plan -- if the Jordanians and Saudis don't start cutting big checks, you just pack everyone up and come right home -- that would make even Eli Pariser queasy.

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Read the whole thing here: http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/07/30/hope-of-the-gop-quot-george-bush-is-the-worst-president-in-american-history-quot.aspx

The Alaska Senate race could get really interesting.

[Warpy]

1. I'm almost tempted to ask if he didn't get lost along the way

and register for the wrong party, only Democrats really don't have much of a chance in Alaska.

His site gives some background on anticorruption fights he's waged, but is a little thinner on other issues.

[norepubsin08]

3. Look out

this guy is going to have an untimely accident courtesy of the GOP

[Vickers]

2. Vic Vickers?

Cool name.

:P