Imagine my joy to see that Rachel Maddow led this evening's show with the Obama Outhouse story from last weekend's Montana GOP Convention, diaryed yesterday here. Expert journalist that she is, Rachel deftly merged this one example into the context of many Romney surrogates hob-nobbing with extremists (or being pretty wing nutty themselves) but not being called out on it by democrats.
In the Montana example, Newt Gingrich was sent to the Montana GOP state convention by the Romney campaign and paid for on Romney's dime. True, Mr. Gingrich didn't appear next to Obama Outhouse which stood outside the convention center, but he and no one else from the GOP condemned this display of hatred for the President or it's cute references to prominent democratic women as whores.
Ms. Maddow goes on to speculate what would happen if democrats actually made the repubs own these displays of extremism, like LBJ did with Goldwater in 1964. How about stop bringing knives to a gunfight democrats!
While I am waiting for the link to tonight's Maddow Show to be posted, here are links to the original story from the Missoulian, and the follow up at Talking Points Memo.
Thanks to Vetwife for hunting down the photo of the outhouse!
7:22 PM PT: Update1: Take a tour of the outhouse here at the Lowdown, a local Missoula blog:
http://mtlowdown.blogspot.com/...