The Montana birthers
posted at 12:31 pm on March 2, 2014 by Jazz Shaw

Out in Montana there have been some interesting goings on while the media focus has been on foreign policy. After Max Baucus was approved as the next Ambassador to China and resigned, Harry Reid managed to browbeat Democrat Montana Governor Steve Bullock into appointing his Lt. Governor, John Walsh, to fill the seat for the rest of the year. This was supposed to give the Democrats a leg up in the race to replace Baucus, annointing Walsh with the aura of incumbency.

The Republicans aren’t interested in giving up the seat though, and Montana’s Congressman, Steve Daines, has been performing well in the polls against Walsh. This means that the Democrats need to find something to attack Daines on, so guess what they came up with. They want to see his birth certificate. (Found in Jim Geraghty;s Morning Jolt)

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Remember when this sort of thing was ipso facto evidence that someone was a lunatic, a conspiracy theorist, a hate-monger, and unfit for public discourse?

The Montana Democratic Party today called on Congressman Steve Daines, who claims in his latest TV ad to be a “fifth-generation Montanan,” to clear up confusion about his roots by releasing his birth certificate.

Daines’ latest ad asserts he “grew up in Bozeman, a fifth-generation Montanan,” which directly contradicts earlier versions of his biography when he claimed: “I’m a third-generation Montanan, kind of that classic Montana kid.”

So the dispute is really whether Daines’s great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were Montanans, huh? Really? Does Daines need to dig up their birth certificates, too? Do we need to dig deep into his Ancestry.com profile to get to the bottom of this?

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It turns out that this isn’t some sort of question over whether or not Daines is legally qualified for the office… he is. But is he a true Montanan? The Democrats clearly feel they’ve found the smoking gun here, since Daines was born in California and lived there until – gasp – the age of two! Clearly, by the age of two, Daines was probably already surfing, huffing marijuana and learning to call his father “Dude” rather than “Da da.”

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http://hotair.com/archives/2014/03/02/the-montana-birthers/