why toeing the party line is bad
The Billings Gazette: Oopsie! The only Republican candidate running for the state legislature in Montana’s district 76 is a proud member of ‘America’s Nazi Party.’
“It was reported over the weekend that Shawn Stuart, 24, is Montana’s contact point for the National Socialist Movement, a group that describes itself as ‘America’s Nazi Party’ on its Web site.”
Montana’s contact point, eh? Well that shows he has leadership experience, which is important for a prospective member of the state legislature. Let’s review his other qualifications, shall we?
From the Helena Independent Record:
‘I am the Montana unit contact leader,’ Shawn Stuart, 24, told The Montana Standard Friday afternoon. He’s running for the House District 76 spot, along with Democrats Kevin Lowney and incumbent Jon Sesso.
Members of this movement ‘co-operate and work with many like minded white nationalist groups such as the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), Aryan Skinheads, the Racial Nationalist Party of America and many others which are either neo Nazi or at least, racially aware of our Aryan Heritage,’ according to their Web site.
The ‘Sacred Swastika’ is their logo and ‘the Brown shirt of the SA (Sturmabteilung)’ is their uniform.
The movement calls for a ‘union of all Whites into a greater America. Non-citizens may live in America only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens. Accordingly, no Jew or homosexual may be a member of the nation,’ according to the ‘25 points’ section of the Web site.
Stuart said he personally ‘has nothing against any other race.’
He has nothing against any other race! What’s the big deal?
‘All I believe in is the separation,’ he said. ‘We have our right to exist in the world; they have their right to exist in the world.’
He said his views align with the Republican party and he’s also been affiliated with the Militia of Montana, describing it as ‘like the National Rifle Association, but a little more extreme.’
Ah. There it is. Separation. The old, [adopts a hillbilly accent] “I don’t mind what other people do, long as they ain’t tryin’ to spread it around.” Plus, more extreme than the NRA? What, they want to require everyone to carry two guns at all times, or something? The Militia of Montana Web site says,
Militia members do not walk around carrying guns and wearing army fatigues, looking for someone to shoot.
That’s a relief. Unless it’s just a semantics thing. Maybe militia members walk around carrying guns, looking for someone to shoot but they wear whatever they want. Or maybe they walk around carrying guns, wearing army fatigues but they already know who they’re going to shoot. They don’t have to look. See, semantics.
But look, no one’s perfect. At least Stuart’s views align with the Republican party, right? Right? Republicans? Hello?
John Eyde, who heads Butte’s Republican central committee, had no comment Friday afternoon when told of Stuart’s affiliation.
Earlier in the week, he said the committee was ‘familiar with him’ and that Stuart has been to central committee meetings, but the local party did not endorse him or recruit him to run.
NPR reported today that Montana Republicans were going to campaign against Stuart, despite having to give up a potential seat in the legislature. That’s a pretty good idea, considering Montana Republicans have absolutely no other choice given the circumstances. I love when politicians do the right thing once there’s no other alternative.
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