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11 March 2012

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Chuck Baldwin to GOP State Senator Bruce Tutvedt:
“What in Hades are you doing in public office?”

That’s probably a question that Tutvedt, a certifiable conservative, never expected to hear from a pastor who thinks Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy’s big kahunas were not racists. But he’s hearing it now, and hearing it piano fortissimo: “This neocon is the bane of liberty and constitutional government.”

What sin earned Tutvedt the wrath of Baldwin — and caused Baldwin to loose his avenging angle, Dr. Rollan Roberts II, upon Tutvedt’s re-election campaign? In Baldwin’s own words:

…[Tutvedt] is quoted as having told a gathering of local Republicans a few days ago, “We are NOT constitutionalists; we are NOT freedom-fighters.” Pray tell, Senator, if you are not willing to support and defend the Constitution, if you are not willing to support and defend freedom, what in Hades are you doing in public office?

Opposing Baldwin’s pet projects, apparently. Here’s the list of particulars in the pastor’s indictment:

Name the issue and this Big Government toady is on the wrong side of it.

  • He’s on the wrong side of the Second Amendment issue;
  • he’s on the wrong side of the life issue;
  • he’s on the wrong side of the less government and less taxes issue;
  • he’s on the wrong side of the right to work issue;
  • he’s on the wrong side of the State sovereignty issue; and
  • he’s on the wrong side of the right of parents to educate their children via private or Christian education or homeschooling issue.

And adding insult to injury, if this man is reelected this year, he will, in all likelihood, be elected Senate President, which means he will use his incredible power and influence to kill most of the good legislation that many of the noble house members and senators will bring forth next legislative term–not to mention the scores of RINOs and neocons that he will help place in key political positions around the State.

Over at PolyMontana, Ed Berry piled on, linking Tutvedt to Flathead Valley Community College trustee Tom McElwain, whose sins include not openly objecting to Earth Day:

Senator Bruce Tutvedt is connected at the hip to establishment governor candidate Rick Hill, and with establishment Congressman Denny Rehberg, and with Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) establishment Trustee Tom McElwain. McElwain supported former University of Montana President Dennison, who proudly and openly impemented Agenda 21 and Sustainability indoctrination in the University, and Trustee McElwain does not openly object to Agenda 21, Sustainability, and Earth Day at FVCC.

Following that, Berry spoke highly of seeker of the GOP nomination for governor, Neil Livingstone, absolving him of all connections to establishment wussies like Hill, Rehberg, and Tutvedt.


Help — straight as a gun barrel — is on the way

Fortunately for the decent and holy voters of SD-3, help is on the way. There’s a man astride a white horse galloping to the rescue: Dr. Rollan Roberts, II. “I’ve known Rollan for many years,” says Baldwin,

and I can tell you that Rollan is as straight as a gun barrel on every single constitutional issue facing us today.

  • He’s straight on the Second Amendment issue;
  • he’s straight on the life issue;
  • he’s straight on the private and Christian education and homeschooling issue;
  • he’s straight on the State sovereignty issue;
  • he’s straight on the constitutional government issue;
  • he’s straight on the right to work issue; and
  • he’s straight on the less government and less taxes issue.

Rollan has the grit and determination of Ron Paul; he has the business acumen of Steve Forbes; and he has the look and polish of Ronald Reagan. Rollan Roberts is the real deal!

Hallelujah! The savior is nigh. And Bruce the antiChrist is about to be booted back to his farm and denied admission to the Rapture.

Tutvedt, I suspect, is vexed, exasperated, disgusted, and just possibly, hopping mad — but I can’t imagine that he’s frightened. The voters took a dim view of the Baldwin-Berry attempt to take over FVCC’s board of trustees, and they’ll take an even dimmer view of the notion that Bruce Tutvedt is an unrepentant, closet liberal, establishmentarian whose continued presence in the legislature threatens all that is good and holy.

Thankfully, this run of fantasy in the Flathead ends in June. Were it to last longer, we’d all be reading Carl Hiaasen novels to stay grounded in reality.