Those Wacky Republicans
Today in “things only Glenn Reynolds could find funny“:
There was less laughter – although plenty of picture-taking – of an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” parked outside Missoula’s Hilton Garden Inn, where the [Montana GOP] convention took place.
Nothing on the outhouse indicated who was responsible for it, although it made an appearance in the Memorial Day parade in Corvallis in Ravalli County.
The outhouse was painted to look as though it had been riddled by bullets.
Inside, a fake birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama made reference to the disproven controversy over the president’s origins. It was stamped “Bull––.” A graffito advised “For a Good Time call 800-Michelle (crossed out), Hillary (crossed out) and Pelosi (circled in red.)”
[HT Dr. Dick.]
For the record, Ravalli County (just south of here), along with Flathead County (Just north of here and west of Glacier National Park) and the Yaak, is home to every known variety of rightwing whackaloon. From gun nuts, libertarians, and Constitution Partiers,to Xtian fanatics and Mormon polygamists, to Sovereign Citizens, white supremacists, militias, and survivalists, they are all here. It makes some parts of western Montana a very special place indeed.
“just south of here”? I thought you lived in that other wacky part of the country known as Florida.
I live in western Montana.
Ah, thanks, I must have misread some comment by you quite some time ago.
Been looking around town and I can’t figure what bar the goppers are congregating at.
I am pretty sure that it is not the Union Club.
Or Stockmans
Although I have to ask whether western Montana is really any crazier than eastern Montana?
This is America. We’re all bozos on this bus.
No, it is not at all. In fact, most of the pockets of sanity and reason (like here in the People’s Republic of Missoula) are in the western part of the state. It is also the case, however, that the remote northern Rockies, low population densities (though higher than eastern MT), largely lily white local population, and access to millions of acres of actual wilderness has drawn colonies of these whackaloons here. The mother of Prussian Blue is trying to establish a white homeland up in Flathead county.
That’s a shame. Western Montana is one of the most gloriously beautiful places in the US.
One of these days I’ll have reason here to go into the time I sat in on a hour of the Montana state legislature. That was good times if you like really shitty politics.
AS I said, the craziness tends to be pretty concentrated here in the western part of the state. You can go through life and enjoy the scenery most of the time without encountering any more of it than you would on the East Coast (just stay out of the Yaak and parts of Ravalli and Flathead counties). It is much more diffuse and widespread on the other side of the Divide.
Well one side is closer to Idaho
Boy, do I miss the good old days when Democrats who mentioned Bush might veto some spending bills, or start planning what to do in Iraq, or not torture/sexually abuse prisoners were accused of ‘Bush Derangement’ syndrome.
What a difference a true racist psychosis can make.
State GOP Chairman Will Deschamps of Missoula said he didn’t know who’d brought the outhouse, but dismissed it as “a sideshow.”
Actually, I think Deschamps desmissed it as “a readymade”.
“although it made an appearance in the Memorial Day parade in Corvallis in Ravalli County.”
Don’t you hate it when an inanimate object butts into a parade uninvited?
And how did they expect people to tell the difference between an outhouse and the Missoula Hilton Garden Inn?
One has working plumbing and the other is the Hilton?
Nice Memorial Day parade that must have been!
I guess hanging an Obama mannequin in effigy from the nearest tree limb was considered a bit too much, so they went with this.
Either that, or the Hilton told them they had a “No Hanging Around” policy.
I have an idea.
How about Democrats have a model of Romney’s bathroom at the next gathering?
All marble, with a large golden “throne” for Mitt’s precious buttocks.
And then, mannequins representing the holder-of-the-royal dick, and the wiper-of-the-king’s butt, and the human-bidet, who sprays champagne on Mitts privates, to freshen them, afterwards.
And with this sign in front:
Obama: “Yes We Can.”
Mitt: “Here’s My Can!”
FYI — Newt Gingrinch spoke at the convention and Heywood over at Hammer of the Blogs has a nice putdown (http://hammeroftheblogs.blogspot.com/2012/06/pot-meets-kettle-learns-nothing.html)
My favorite bit is “professional powdered-donut storage unit Newt Gingrich.”
It may be worth noting that Newt isn’t even competent in the profession Heywood grants him: twe whole point of a storage unit is that ability to regain from it intact the material placed in it.
It would be interesting to see the library of whoever put this together.
Not without a hazmat suit.
I’m guessing it consists of a wide range of magazines that they read for the articles.
A couple, friends of ours both with Harvard post-docs, took tenure-track offers at Montana State because they weren’t going to get similar offers around Boston. They moved out there with their two small kids. I wondered then, and wonder now, how they stand it.
I’m sure that when on the slopes every winter, they manage pretty OK.
Bozeman is a pretty nice small city (35,000), though more conservative than Missoula, and fairly affluent. As Erik indicates, it also has gorgeous scenery, great fishing, and some good skiing.
I have a friend at MSU and he’s pretty happy. Though he is from northern Idaho originally.
Bozeman may be the only other place in the state that I would enjoy living, though they are still too conservative for my tastes. Having the university there is a big factor.
I used to deal with a guy who owns several radio stations there. A bit of a creep in my humble opinion.
I’ve been to Whitefish as well and kind of liked it. They seemed to have a bit of an arts community there.
That seems uncommitted, inauthentic to me. Real militia minded TeaBaggers would shoot it up with live bullets.
This new generation of poseurs just doesn’t have that old school dedication.
I don’t know, it is way easier to shoot the holes in, than to paint the holes on. So effort wise they went the extra mile
Besides, painting the bullet holes on is less damaging, and helps insure they can continue to use their ornament for four more years.