GOP waterworks in Montana

I knew the Republicans were sore losers, but I can't believe they're such arrogant asshats about it.

In 2006, the GOPstapo tried rigging the Senate election in Montana by installing poll watchers to illegally intimidate voters who lived on Native American reservations. They almost succeeded at ensuring a result that was favorable to them.

Recently, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer gave a speech in which he joked about the matter in his own peerless style. He told a story about tribal police showing up at the polling places to arrest the Republican operatives.

But this story was only fiction, and those who heard the speech knew that's what it was meant to be. There's no evidence that tribal authorities arrested the poll watchers or that Schweitzer ordered them to. The speech was "just Brian being Brian", as a Democratic spokesperson said. Schweitzer is known for making his points using folksy anecdotes and metaphors.

That said, the tribal police would have had grounds to arrest the poll watchers for voter intimidation.

But now some right-wing radio talk show host in Montana has found Schweitzer's speech on the Internet. She's filed a complaint against Schweitzer, accusing him of "admitting" to rigging the election by "bragging" about tribal police arresting Republican operatives.

Aaaww, what's wrong? Did the Republicans...LOSE???

Only a real baby would file a complaint over Schweitzer's fictional story.

It gets funnier. The complainant also said Schweitzer cajoled the Associated Press into calling the election for Democrat Jon Tester too early. Oh yeah? Then why did the AP wait until the following morning to call it? If a Republican had been leading by a slimmer margin (or even narrowly losing), it would've been called for the Republican hours earlier.

It takes a real sore loser to fume about losing an election for 2 years before finding such a flimsy excuse to try to overturn it. If this doesn't prove the Republicans are the biggest damn babies ever to disgrace American politics, what will?