Montana GOP

The Montana Democrats Offer a Lame Response to GOP Hate

17 July 2010

As you have probably read (though precious little in Montana’s dailies, it appears), the Montana GOP wants to overturn the Supreme Court and turn back the clock a generation to outlaw “homosexual acts.” Weeks later, and not even on their front page that features critical items like a story about small business workshop, the Montana [...]

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Sex Ed, the GOP’s Hateful Platform, and Me: It’s About Growing Up

12 July 2010

There are parts of my childhood and adolescence I sometimes wish I could forget, moments that are embarrassing not so much for what I did, but for how little I knew, and how that lack of knowledge made me act. I grew up in small, relatively conservative towns in a time before there was much [...]

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Sleazy Conservative Mailers Mystery!

2 June 2010

It’s certainly a challenge to speculate about who might be behind the latest sleazy and anonymous mailers being sent out attacking Republican legislative candidates for being insufficiently conservative: Commissioner of Political Practices Dennis Unsworth said the groups appear to be breaking Montana campaign laws by failing to register with his office or disclose how they’re [...]

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Beginning to Wonder About the Montana GOP

8 April 2010

I’m beginning to wonder when the Montana Republican Party is going to come out against Social Security and Medicare. After all, they certainly seem supportive of the idea that the federal government has no role in health care. At the latest hyperbolically named “rally” of the curiously lightly employed Montana Tea Party, Montana Republicans were [...]

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The Continuing Ethics of Montana’s Premier Republican Astroturf Blog

26 June 2009

Remember The Hardliner? A blog that is so transparently a GOP astroturf operation that it resorted to manufacturing comments to make it appear like it had a vibrant community reading it? And then banning my IP from the site when I called them out on it? Well, they are back to their old tricks. Yesterday, [...]

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Republicans On Meth

8 April 2009

Oh, those fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party. At the same time, some Democrats objected to a piece of the Republican plan that sends another $500,000 to the private Montana Meth Project for a total of $1 million. Health care for kids? Socialist waste. Millions for an unproven scare campaign? Sensible policy. Sigh. Update: And [...]

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Is Liane Pronounced Lyin’? A Pathetic Defense of Dennis Rehberg’s Record

8 April 2009

One would think that a five term Representative would have a better defense of his record than the one that appeared in the Independent Record today. The commentary, by Republican Party Chair Liane Johnson, demonstrates the paucity of achievements and ideas that have come out of Representative Rehberg’s office in five terms, while illustrating that [...]

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Why Pass Krayton’s Crazy Gun Bill?

12 February 2009

While some (like county attorneys and sheriffs) have questioned the need for Representative Krayton Kern’s Wild West, Rootin’-Tootin Shooting Show gun bill (HB 228), the representative himself has finally offered a compelling reason: The thicker we can make Montana Code with laws that clarify and solidify our Constitutional rights the more difficult it will be [...]

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The NBA, Soccer, or the Montana Republican Party?

18 November 2008

You decide: To the crack of the bat, the cadence of the quarterback and the thwack of a tennis racket, add a new element to America’s sports soundtrack — the shrieks, cries and shouts of N.B.A. players as they try to put the ball in the basket. In part, the emoting is designed to deceive, [...]

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Judge Donald Malloy 1, Jake Eaton 0

8 October 2008

It’s too bad that wit is wasted on people like Jake Eaton. Judge Donald Malloy, today: A Hobbesian nightmare! Determined to prevent the Hobbesian nightmare sure to ensue if voters’ mailing addresses do not match their residential addresses, Eaton employed an auditor to pore over the United States Postal Service’s change of address registry, and [...]

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The Montana GOP Cuts and Runs on Voter Intimidation

8 October 2008

Of course, they didn’t offer an apology. Instead, it was the media’s fault: Eaton wrote that the party launched the challenges in “good faith,” but media reports have since suggested the challenges were an effort to suppress voter turnout. I’m quite certain it didn’t have anything to do with a recently filed lawsuit that might [...]

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I Normally Wouldn’t Link to this Cesspool…

6 October 2008

but I thought that everyone should take the opportunity to see the level of rhetoric displayed by the next generation of Montana Republicans. Hard to imagine why the site is anonymous, but it’s certainly good to see that the Montana Republican Party endorses the site. Keep it classy, boys. Why don’t you disenfranchise social misfits [...]

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