by Don Pogreba on September 24, 2012 · 25 comments


in Montana Legislature, Montana Politics, The Media, Those Wacky Republicans




One of the real challenges those of us in the reality-based community face is that the extreme
right wing of the Republican Party has gone so far off the deep end
that the mainstream media tends ignore their inflammatory, insensitive
and even potentially insane remarks.
Representative David Howard is a member of the Montana Legislature,
representing HD 60,a leader of the Stillwater County Republicans, and
the Chair of the House Human Services Committee. He’s also a member of
the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Ethics Committee.
In the past, he’s spewed racist and homophobic remarks online—but
today he crossed another line. Today, he advocated another American
civil war if President Obama is re-elected.
No, really:


If we lose this election the Secular Socialist Democrats
will place two more secular anti-American Justices on the Supreme Court
and kill America from within.
This is reality and this will happen if we lose this election!


This could force American Patriots into a Civil war to regain our
freedoms. Where we won’t be able to worry about being offended by what
some people in a political party do or don’t do!

We’re not talking about some random constitutionalist living in the
woods here, but someone the Republican Party in Montana has entrusted
with a committee chairmanship in the Legislature. We’re talking about an
elected official who is so far removed from reality that he honestly
believed a civil war might be necessary if his side loses a political
election.
We’re talking about something the media in this state must cover.


The radicalism of the modern Republican Party does offer a profound
threat to the republic and to our state. The average voter needs to know
that voting for Republicans means putting people like Mr. Howard in
positions of real significance, despite his tenuous grasp on civic
responsibility, basic history, and even reality.
The political media has an obligation to confront people like Mr.
Howard, to expose him for the Un-American fraud that he is. They need to
ask the Republican Party to repudiate his offensive views, or failing
that, expose their support for his positions.