Maryland commentator Barry Rascovar has a great column on Dixiepublican theocrat Mike Peroutka here: See more at: http://marylandreporter.com/...
In a nutshell, Peroutka is a teahadist who, as has been diaried, thinks the national anthem should be "Dixie" and sits on the board of white-supremacist group League of the South.
He hates Republicans, but he became one to take over the state party, says Rascovar.
It’s a con game
Peroutka didn’t even belong to the Republican Party until this year.
He and a Christian Reconstructionist cohort, David Whitney, tried to hijack the District 5 election by seeking to win both the Republican and Democratic primaries.
That would have guaranteed a seat on the County Council for this oddball alliance, which centers around Peroutka’s extreme Christian Institute on the Constitution, which he runs out of his law office in a strip shopping center along Ritchie Highway.
Peroutka is out to re-create the Anne Arundel Republican Party, and eventually the Maryland GOP, in his image. His pseudo-conservative rhetoric masks a deep hatred for the Republican Party of Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Peroutka went in as a Republican and Whitney tried to slide in as a Democrat, losing to a newcomer who won handily. The opposing Democrat is:
Patrick Armstrong, a 31-year-old retail store manager who entered the Democratic primary to prevent Peroutka’s theocratic colleague, David Whitney, from furtively gaining the nomination.
Armstrong did better than okay in the primary. He trounced Whitney, gaining nearly two-thirds of the Democratic vote in June.
A third theocrat ran unopposed for county sheriff. Joe Delimater "was the lone GOP candidate" now running against Sheriff Ron Bateman, Democrat, and "hoping to win the right to wreak havoc on Anne Arundel’s court and criminal justice system by ignoring laws and government orders he believes are Godless," writes Rascovar.
Keep an eye on MarylandReporter.com for state election info (yes, Maryland loves the horse-race stuff, but much insightful commentary appears there).
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