First it was the joke about how the “negro caucus” in the Montana legislature didn’t object to quashing a day to honor civil rights, then it was about childhood addiction.  Now, we can add sexism to the list.

Corey Stapleton spent significant time and resources on the production of a web ad that few will see outside of the readers of this blog, who are hardly GOP primary voters.  That’s a good thing, because the ad (which sounds like a beer commercial) is a sausage-fest of men, men, and more men with only a token shot or two of women to be found. (Thirty-nine dudes and like two women who, by the way, are hairdressers.)

With this ad, Stapleton is basically encapsulating the Republican view of women, who tend to vote more Dem than Repub. Democrats tend to use more women in their ads to be more representative of the population, but Stapleton is openly making the point that Republicans refuse to represent women on the grounds that this would be “politically correct” – or, more likely, he is just too stupid to think about it. If the ad’s title (We Are Montana) is to be taken at face value, then Montana’s workforce has nearly as many black people as women.

Also, it seems to be heavy on auto mechanics. By the way, a lot of these folks appear to be actors, or stock footage with people not even from Montana.

The main point of the ad seems to be to say that “our freedoms are being taken away,” but Stapleton is doesn’t provide a single example of where this is happening.

Another odd point, Stapleton calls himself a “fourth generation Montanan” though his bio says he was born in Seattle and then lived in Idaho Falls for a couple of years before coming to Montana. Like Ken Miller, these guys are terrified to admit they might have been born elsewhere.

UPDATE: Don’t miss this analysis of the ad.