The Idaho GOP's Pro-Militia Candidate....

[one_voice]

Idaho veterinarian, elk rancher, and political hopeful Rex Rammell first attracted national attention last year when he joked about buying "Obama tags" to hunt the president. Now the conservative activist is running to be the GOP's candidate for governor of Idaho. His platform? Revving up right-wing militias so they are "prepared" to deal with the growing threats to freedom posed by a federal government bent on "socializing" the country.


On ABC's "Nightline" on Tuesday, Rammell explained why it's reasonable for those unhappy with the Obama administration to threaten violence:

“I don't think anyone would argue that America is getting more and more enemies all of the time—both foreign and domestic," said Rammell. "I think the way politics is going in the United States and the Tea Party movement—the whole atmosphere promotes people wanting to get prepared. And I think that is what this is about...

"It's because of the current administration's politics—the more they force upon the states, the more noise there is," Rammell said. "The more concern people have, the less freedom there is. Lots of Idahoans believe the health care bill is very intrusive on our individual rights. ... We are not going to allow them to come into the state and make what we believe are unconstitutional mandates. Even if they can get them passed in D.C., we are not going to all that to happen. These guys want to show a little force behind the scene... I don't have a problem with that."

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Since then, he has espoused a series of extreme views. "All of the evil empires that have ever existed have dictated what their youth would learn and by whom," Rammell thunders on his campaign website, slamming the federal government's role in the education system. A climate change denialist, he argues that those who advocate addressing human-generated global warming are godless fearmongers: "The catastrophic consequences predicted by the doomsayers are evidence of their lack of faith in a Supreme Being who holds the creation and the future of the world in His hands." He has also called upon the Almighty to help save the Constitution during the Obama years: "We are in America's second Revolutionary War to save our freedom, which we paid for with blood. We need God's help and I'm not ashamed to ask for it," he proclaimed in January, around the same time that he held a series of male-only Mormon campaign events.


http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/03/idaho-republican-rex-rammell-governor-election-miltia





Am I the only one thinking WTF, is going on in this country?

:wtf:

[BlueIdaho]

1. Rex is a perennial candidate for something... anything...

He is a dumb shit from southern Idaho with more money than brains. Since nothing else has worked he is now "born again" as a tea party hopeful. I think we will see plenty of this in our near future. Lunatics marginalized by main stream conservatism will start popping up mouthing tea-bagger talking points. Low information candidates for low information voters.