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| Muppet hater Michael Comstock |
Democratic primary voters in some Montana legislative districts will see new and unfamiliar names on the ballot this year. That’s because at least eight Democratic candidates are actually far-right “constitutionalists” and Tea Party activists. One of them is the current Republican vice-chairman for Sanders County. Two of the others have turned out to be homeless.
Most of the activity has occurred in Gallatin County, where Bozeman is the main population center and county seat. The county is home not only to Montana State University but also a variety of extremist elements. Key members of the radical Montana Freemen group were active there in the 1990s.
Chief among the new crop of candidates is Michael Comstock, a well-known local Tea Party activist and antigovernment “Patriot” movement organizer who has run previously as a Republican. This year, he filed to run in the Democratic primary for the state Senate seat in District 24, a seat currently held by Republican incumbent Roger Webb, who is running for re-election.
Comstock claimed during an interview with KCFW-TV in Bozeman that he’s a mainstream Democrat in the tradition of John F. Kennedy and Montana icon Mike Mansfield, and more mainstream than his primary opponent, Democratic activist and educator April Buonamici. But as the blogger Montana Cowgirl observed in her posts calling out Comstock and the other candidates, no one in Bozeman who knows Comstock is fooled by this, since he has been a colorful figure on the local political scene for many years:
Comstock’s main focus is his concern about a possible takeover by ‘a one-world UN controlled government,’ the Bozeman Chronicle has reported. In his campaign literature and on Facebook, he says he is worried about the impending collapse of civilization. He proudly calls himself ‘a Tea Party extremist’ and believes the Muppets have ‘sold out to socialism and bad behavior.’
Yes, well everybody knows that the Muppets are tools of the radical Left Wing. Right?
So here's a question.
If the Democrats are in such trouble in 2014, and the Republicans have such clear sailing ahead, WHY are they resorting to all of these dirty tricks in order to sabotage the Democratic primary, and suppress turnout?
No, everything indicates that they are the ones that are worried, and that we are the ones who need to recognize that we are the ones in the catbird's seat.
Of course if we don't have that confidence we could still shoot ourselves in the foot.
Starve the beast, and who is one of the biggest inflators of the beast? Ronnie Reagan.
ReplyDeleteEver heard of the Comstock Laws? Policing family behavior with men at the household? I'm sure this guy would LOVE to bring back traditional, subservient and condoned domestic violence.
Democrats have to be very, very careful this time around. I think that the GOP, especially its teabagger wing, is aware of how absolutely nutty they are and how wrong they are about everything so they're playing the "wolf-in-sheep's-clothing" game. Vigilance is required, folks. Isn't that a shame? Republicans know that they cannot win honestly, so they'll cheat. They lost the White House in 2008 and decided to play the "tantrum game" and now they're resorting to the "wolf" game. We cannot let them get away with it.
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G, Beagle mom please don't insult wolves especially in Montana where they are slaughtered! Call them what they are RWNJ or Right wing nut jobs!
DeleteIf, through complacence, Democrats don't get out and VOTE this time, and the Republicans reclaim the Senate
ReplyDelete-- then the next two years are going to be horrible for President Obama and for miserable every single person that isn't a rich, white male.
WHY are they resorting to all of these dirty tricks, you ask? Because they're Kochsuckers.
ReplyDeleteObama Speaks The Cold Hard Truth About Why Democrats Get Clobbered In Midterms
ReplyDeleteAt a Florida fundraiser President Obama explained that Democrats keep losing in midterms because Republicans successfully discourage women, young people, and Hispanics from coming out to vote.
According to The Hill:
President Obama complained Thursday that Democrats “get clobbered” in midterm elections, blaming a “toxic” atmosphere in Washington for suppressing key Democratic constituencies.
“The challenge is that our politics in Washington have become so toxic that people just lose faith,” Obama told a group of top Democratic donors gathered at the home of former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning. “They say, ‘Y’know what, it doesn’t matter, I’m not that interested, I’m not gonna vote.’ And that’s especially true during the midterms.”
Obama noted that young, female, black and Hispanic voters were more likely to vote in elections with a presidential contest.
“Suddenly a more representative cross section of America gets out there, and we do pretty well in presidential elections,” Obama said.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/21/obama-speaks-cold-hard-truth-democrats-clobbered-midterms.html
This guy Michael Comstock isn't even a "stealth candidate" like Susan Hutchison was in King County (a fundamentalist evangelical running as an independent for a non-partisan position). He's blatantly labeling himself without a shred of philosophical or political honesty.
ReplyDeleteChrist on a crutch. Sorry couldn't resist that old saying from my childhood! I'm originally a Montanan born and bred. Got both mu bachelor's and master's degrees from Montana universities. This !@#$% is scary. I grew up 100 miles from Bozeman and moved to Alaska after college. I had thoiught all the rightwing nutcases had moved to Alaska. Looks like Montana got their share!
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