Republicans Are Nominating More Fringe than Victorian Drapery
See, because Victorian drapes have a lot of fringe.
By Charles P. PiercePUBLISHED: AUG 1, 2022
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All the pots on the shelf are cracked, and none of the trolleys are still on the tracks.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/politics/kfile...index.html
From CNN:
Michael Peroutka, a candidate best known for his ties to neo-Confederate organizations, made the remarks on The American View, a radio show he co-hosted, in October 2006 while discussing the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
“What happened on 9-1-1, I told you that I had been doing some research and watching some videos,” Peroutka said during one of the episodes reviewed by CNN’s KFile. “And I said that if the buildings in New York City, the World Trade Center buildings, came down by demolition charges – that is to say – if there was this evidence that there was that something was preset there, then the implications of that are massive,” said Peroutka.
Pause on that first sentence for a moment. Maryland Republicans' preferred candidate for attorney general of their state is a guy who is “best known” for white supremacy, so his onetime adherence to 9/11 lunacy is merely a bonus on the ol' resume.
Where do they find these people? Seriously, is there some kind of Republican hiring hall out there somewhere, at which tables full of bad and/or deranged candidates sit, playing with their toes or with 48-card decks, until somebody calls their number and they run for something?
With the U.S. Senate on the line, Georgia Republicans have lined up behind a former running back who is forever being horse-collared by the English language.
The Pennsylvania Republicans are running a refugee from Oprah’s House O’Quacks who’s being trolled into a fine mist by his Democratic opponent.
And the Ohio Republicans are running a hedge-fund bot last seen campaigning in Israel and telling women to stay in violent marriages.
And the further you go down the ballot, the further afield the derangement goes. Arizona’s Republican ballot is thick with election truthers. And in Missouri, there is a candidate for Congress who is that rarest of birds, the George Floyd truther.
Of course, when you spend 40 years telling people that government is the problem, it's not hard to turn politics into a carnival act whose only purpose is to be a spectacle of public amusement.
And one of the current Democratic neuroses centers on certain efforts to boost the candidacies of the extreme-most of the extremes—as though straw candidates and variations on that theme haven’t been regular American political practice since Himself, James Michael Curley, was wrestling over Boston with JFK’s maternal grandfather.
My feeling on this is that it’s obviously a waste of time, effort and money. The Republicans don’t need any help to nominate freak-show candidates. There appears to be a waiting list.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politic...xtremists/
See, because Victorian drapes have a lot of fringe.
By Charles P. PiercePUBLISHED: AUG 1, 2022
The Washington Post//Getty Images
All the pots on the shelf are cracked, and none of the trolleys are still on the tracks.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/31/politics/kfile...index.html
From CNN:
Michael Peroutka, a candidate best known for his ties to neo-Confederate organizations, made the remarks on The American View, a radio show he co-hosted, in October 2006 while discussing the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
“What happened on 9-1-1, I told you that I had been doing some research and watching some videos,” Peroutka said during one of the episodes reviewed by CNN’s KFile. “And I said that if the buildings in New York City, the World Trade Center buildings, came down by demolition charges – that is to say – if there was this evidence that there was that something was preset there, then the implications of that are massive,” said Peroutka.
Pause on that first sentence for a moment. Maryland Republicans' preferred candidate for attorney general of their state is a guy who is “best known” for white supremacy, so his onetime adherence to 9/11 lunacy is merely a bonus on the ol' resume.
Where do they find these people? Seriously, is there some kind of Republican hiring hall out there somewhere, at which tables full of bad and/or deranged candidates sit, playing with their toes or with 48-card decks, until somebody calls their number and they run for something?
With the U.S. Senate on the line, Georgia Republicans have lined up behind a former running back who is forever being horse-collared by the English language.
The Pennsylvania Republicans are running a refugee from Oprah’s House O’Quacks who’s being trolled into a fine mist by his Democratic opponent.
And the Ohio Republicans are running a hedge-fund bot last seen campaigning in Israel and telling women to stay in violent marriages.
And the further you go down the ballot, the further afield the derangement goes. Arizona’s Republican ballot is thick with election truthers. And in Missouri, there is a candidate for Congress who is that rarest of birds, the George Floyd truther.
Of course, when you spend 40 years telling people that government is the problem, it's not hard to turn politics into a carnival act whose only purpose is to be a spectacle of public amusement.
And one of the current Democratic neuroses centers on certain efforts to boost the candidacies of the extreme-most of the extremes—as though straw candidates and variations on that theme haven’t been regular American political practice since Himself, James Michael Curley, was wrestling over Boston with JFK’s maternal grandfather.
My feeling on this is that it’s obviously a waste of time, effort and money. The Republicans don’t need any help to nominate freak-show candidates. There appears to be a waiting list.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politic...xtremists/
