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A Close Encounter With Reagan R’s

RE: Reagan Republicans misgrade Congressman Minnick's NRA standing/Hucks Online

Thom George: I was the BerryPicker who provided the photo. I attended the rally to correct the RR's misinformation about Congressman Minnick's NRA rating. I attended the rally to correct the RR's misinformation about Congressman Minnick's NRA rating. I identified myself as the Chairman of the Kootenai County Democrats, to which one woman replied by calling me a “typical tax & spend Democrat.” I asked her if we could stay on the topic of the Second Amendment, but, alas, we could not. Her elderly mother sidled over to support the first woman's “Democrats love taxes argument” by informing me she was from California where her taxes were low and had moved to Idaho where her taxes were high. I didn't attempt to explain to her that California is widely perceived as a Democratic state and Idaho a Republican state. Her daughter started talking again, but when I heard the name “Hitler” come out of her mouth I told her that she'd Godwined the conversation and I refused to talk to her any further. More below.

Question: What grade would you give the protest today by the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans?

.Another gentleman, he was carrying a “D+” sign, wanted to know where I'd gotten my information. I told him I'd spoken to an individual at the NRA earlier in the morning. He said I was lying, “because Democrats lie.” I offered him the phone number for the NRA national headquarters and said, ' If I'm lying I'll stand on the street corner with I sign that says 'I'm A Liar'.” He said he would hold me to it. But he didn't want the phone number.
Cars drove by and some honked horns. One car honked and the driver leaned out the window and shouted what sounded like, “Go Obama!”
One of the protest leaders said, “Did he say 'Go Obama'?” I said, “I think so.”
“He's one of yours, Thom,” she replied. I answered her that maybe he was just an American supporting his President. “he's not the President,” she said.
“What? Are you a birther?” I asked. She was. Unashamedly.
It was then that I left, for what else is there to say at that point.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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