His campaign slogan was "God, Family, Republic" and heavily featured Christian and socially conservative themes.
[10] Paleoconservative political commentator Pat Buchanan stated on the September 7, 2004, edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews that he was considering voting for Peroutka.
[11] The November 8, 2004, issue of The American Conservative contained endorsements by Taki Theodoracopulos[12] and Howard Phillips[13] (the latter having founded the party Peroutka represented).
Kentucky Republican politician Matt Bevin's support for Peroutka's candidacy was used in a 2013 attack ad by opponent Mitch McConnell.
[18] Peroutka is a former board member of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate organization that is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
[2] In 2012, the Human Rights Campaign called Peroutka an "active white supremacist and secessionist sympathizer" due to his ties to the League.
[20] Peroutka told The Baltimore Sun that he "continues to be a proud member of the League of the South," since it "has a belief that the central government is too large, too spend-thrift and too out-of-control," but he called HRC's characterization of him as a white-supremacist sympathizer "absurd" and "not at all true.
[28] Peroutka won the seat on the Central Committee, becoming an official representative of the Republican Party in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Peroutka also won the primary election for county council from District 5 on June 24, defeating a number of other Republican candidates, including the incumbent councilman Dick Ladd.
[33][34] Peroutka ran on a platform in which he prioritize what he called "God-given, constitutionally-protected rights" over state and federal laws, specifically those on abortion and same-sex marriage.
"[41] In May 2014, Peroutka, acting on behalf of the Elizabeth Streb Peroutka foundation, a charity he and his brother Stephen established and named after their mother, donated an Allosaurus skeleton to the Creation Museum,[42] a 70,000-square-foot museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, that promotes the pseudoscientific young Earth creationist explanation of the origins of the universe put forth in Biblical literalism.