Somebody with that name in Bakersfield. Two years off on age.
http://www.robertdear.com/index.html
I saw that too. We are getting some random hits out of what could be a common name.
I tried Bob Dear and a few other variants too.
Your Robert did not seem to have anything very political in his online pages except for the weird song that played during his slide show of pics.
The home page for that website is filled with bullet holes.