H/T Chrissey the Hyphenated at Polination

We’ve been hearing for months that the Rehberg/Tester race is going to be one of the hardest fought battles this election, but the events at Saturday’s debate at Big Sky illustrate just exactly how bruising and bloody things could get over the next four months.

The wife of GOP Congressman Denny Rehberg found herself the target of a Democratic activist after a U.S. Senate debate in Montana, the Daily Caller reported Tuesday.

A Rehberg campaign staffer who witnessed the confrontation said that “a female Tester supporter in her late thirties attempted to push her way into a group that included the congressman, who was entertaining questions from reporters, and his wife, daughter Katie and staff,” Caroline May wrote at the Daily Caller.

The environmental activist began hitting Mrs. Rehberg with a rolled up Tester sign after exchanging words with her.

The activist and two of her cohorts were thrown off the premises by David O’Connor, managing partner of the Buck T-4.

How’s that for classy?

One would hope that Tester will quickly be getting the word out to his supporters that literally beating up the opposition, including the candidate’s wife and daughter, is generally not a winning campaign tactic and certainly not something Montanans find endearing. Having the national media spotlight shining on the kind of unsavory conduct that’s typically associated with big-city thuggery sure can’t be the image that the Montana democrats want to convey to the electorate.

If this is how liberal activists plan on routinely conducting themselves at campaign events around the state, we are in for a… ummm… “colorful” summer. The colors being black and blue, not the usual red, white, and blue.

And in November Montana voters will color Jon Tester and his fellow democrats out of office.