Outside the Montana state Republican Party convention this weekend was an outhouse labeled the “Obama Presidential Library” and covered in painted-on bullet holes. 
 
 Inside the outhouse contained a fake birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama, according to the Helena Independent Record. 
 
 It was stamped “Bull——.” A graffito advised “For a Good Time call 800-Michelle (crossed out), Hillary (crossed out) and Pelosi (circled in red.)” 
 
 State GOP Chairman Will Deschamps said he didn’t know who was responsible for the outhouse but called it a “sideshow,” the paper reported. 
 
 “It’s not something I’m going to agonize over,” he said. “Some of that stuff is not real good taste. We do have a president of the United States, and we have to honor that.” 
 
 There was no indication of who brought the outhouse and parked it outside the hotel where the convention was taking place, though it has made a previous appearance in Montana at a Memorial Day parade in Corvallis. 
 
 Newt Gingrich was the featured speaker at the convention. 
 
 Update Sunday 12:55 PM: A reader sends in a picture of the outhouse from earlier this year in Corvallis, Montana, now featured at the top. 

 MISSOULA — Political conventions often feature unique offerings. But the gun/shovel/duct tape raffle and the bullet-“pocked” outhouse at the Montana GOP convention might have pushed the envelope. 
 
 Former GOP presidential candidate and U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the convention’s featured speaker on Saturday, got a raffle ticket for what might in any other part of the country seem an unusual combo — a 12-gauge shotgun, a shovel and a roll of duct tape. 
 
 But the 500 convention-goers burst into laughter to the obvious S-S-S — “Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up” — reference to the contentious issue of wolves. The Ravalli County Republican Central Committee, which sponsored the raffle, clearly had signed on to one widely suggested “management” plan by opponents of federal protection for wolves. 
 
 Gingrich said that if he wins, the prize will go to his 10-year-old grandson, who just got his first .410 bore shotgun. 
 
 There was less laughter — although plenty of picture-taking — of an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” parked outside Missoula’s Hilton Garden Inn, where the convention took place. 
 
 Nothing on the outhouse indicated who was responsible for it, although it made an appearance in the Memorial Day parade in Corvallis in Ravalli County. 
 
 The outhouse was painted to look as though it had been riddled by bullets. 
 
 Inside, a fake birth certificate for Barack Hussein Obama made reference to the disproven controversy over the president’s origins. It was stamped “Bull----.” A graffito advised “For a Good Time call 800-Michelle (crossed out), Hillary (crossed out) and Pelosi (circled in red.)” 
 
 State GOP Chairman Will Deschamps of Missoula said he didn’t know who’d brought the outhouse, but dismissed it as “a sideshow.” 
 
 “It’s not something I’m going to agonize over,” he said. “Some of that stuff is not real good taste. We do have a president of the United States, and we have to honor that.” 
 
 Missoulian reporter Gwen Florio can be reached at 523-5268, gwen.florio@missoulian.com, or @CopsAndCourts on Twitter.
– What happened inside a Missoula, Montana, GOP convention this weekend—including a Newt Gingrich speech—was overshadowed by what turned up outside: an outhouse marked "Obama Presidential Library" and covered in painted-on bullet holes. The outhouse contained a fake Obama birth certificate that was stamped "bullsh**," as well as graffiti saying, "For a good time, call Michelle," whose name was crossed out, then "Hillary," crossed out again, and finally, "Pelosi," in a red circle. It's not clear who was responsible for the outhouse, which had appeared earlier in a local parade. It was "a sideshow," said the state's GOP chair, who noted that he didn't know where it came from. But "it’s not something I’m going to agonize over," he tells the Helena Independent Record. "Some of that stuff is not real good taste. We do have a president of the United States, and we have to honor that." Click through for an image of the outhouse.