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That’s not my question. It’s Ed Berry’s. And serious or rhetorical — sometimes with Ed I’m never quite sure — it certainly makes for an interesting discussion:
Did George Soros send Pastor Baldwin and Stewart Rhodes to Montana? Montana may be the easiest state where a few tea-party infiltrators can actually swing a state from electing Republicans to electing Democrats, and with the razor-thin balance in the US Senate, a swung Montana election can swing America from right to left. Montana is a good place to apply left-wing political leverage.
If the 2014 US Senate election adds Republicans but they fall one vote short of controlling the US Senate, we shall have Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes, Pastor Chuck Baldwin, and Montana Libertarian voters to blame for this disaster for America. This should be evidence to all freedom-loving voters that the political rantings of Stewart Rhodes and Pastor Baldwin is the path that will destroy America. What Rhodes and Baldwin promote about politics is the exact opposite of how to save and restore America.
Before posing his “Did Soros send…” question, Berry provided some interesting political analysis:
Stewart Rhodes has an admirable front for his Oath Keepers: keep your oath to our Constitution. Therefore, you can’t criticize political advice by Stewart Rhodes because you would be criticizing our Constitution.
Pastor Baldwin has an admirable front for his Liberty Fellowship: Christianity. Therefore, you can’t criticize political advice by Pastor Baldwin because you would be criticizing Jesus Christ.
Rhodes and Baldwin wrap themselves in the Constitution, American flag, God, mother, and apple pie. But the Bible tells us “by their works we shall know them.” And the works of Baldwin and Rhodes sabotage Republicans and put Democrats into power. Their actions empower the whole socialist-communist movement in America. In Obama’s case, their actions empowered the strength of the Muslim anti-Christian movement in America.
His post is long and followed by many interesting comments. I recommend reading it in full.
Berry, incidentally, partially illustrated his post with some of my photographs from the Oath Keeper’s Second Amendment Rally in Kalispell back in April. And he did so in a textbook example of compliance with the letter and spirit of the fair use provision of American copyright law, which I greatly appreciate. That gives us at least two things in common: respect for intellectual property rights, and a love of sailing Fireballs. A strip rather than a field of common ground, but a start.