I called for a roar of courage.

What I got was an irrelevant whimper of agreement.

Dennis Rehberg, the highest ranking elected Republican in the State of Montana, through a spokesman, admitted he hadn’t seen the posting that outed Tim Ravndal as a homophobic and possibly violent bigot. But- and this is very important, folks:

“…he believes the movement to control government spending and protect small business from record tax increases is bigger than any one person so the folks running the Big Sky Tea Party made the right decision,” said Evan Wilson, Rehberg’s campaign manager.

Huh? A significant episode involving threatened brutality/murder to a specific group of human beings by a political official and this is the best he can do?

Not a word about the violent hate speech. Not a word to Montana’s gay people reassuring them of their safety. Not a word about anything, really. Well, unless you count  the subtle reassurances to small business, which is always more important than addressing specific threats of violence towards the citizenry, apparently.

Beh.

Independent Record story here.

And an excellent history of Rehberg’s homophobia from the Beaverhead Dems.