On June 6, Montana held its primary. Republican voters in the 76th state house district (Butte) nominated Shawn Stuart by default, since no one else was running. Stuart holds himself out as the Montana leader of the National Socialist Movement. The NSM describes itself as “the American Nazi Party”. The Republican Party has since disavowed Stuart and is asking voters to vote for the incumbent Democratic state legislator, Jon Sesso. The district is strongly Democratic anyway.
The NSM says it will run a presidential candidate in 2008, but has not said whether its presidential candidate will run in major party primaries, or in the general election. No political party that holds itself out as a “Nazi” party has ever run a presidential candidate. But the National States Rights Party, which has always had similar doctrines, ran a presidential candidate in 1960 and 1964.
Wasn’t George Lincoln Rockwell a Nazi Party nominee for president in either 1960 or 64? He was assasinated before the 68 election as I recall.
Commander Rockwell in 1966 tossed the idea out to see what kind of support he would receive if he did run in 1968. Most past NS party leaders confirm that most likely he would have ran in 1972 if he wasn’t assasinated in 1967.