Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Lesson: you should always bother to field a candidate.
Republican congressional candidate James L. Hart acknowledges that he is an "intellectual outlaw." He is an unapologetic supporter of eugenics, the phony science that resulted in thousands of sterilizations in an attempt to purify the white race. He believes the country will look "like one big Detroit" if it doesn't eliminate welfare and immigration. He believes that if blacks were integrated centuries ago, the automobile never would have been invented. He shows up at voters' homes wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a gun, and tells them that "white children deserve the same rights as everyone else."
Despite his radical views, Hart may end up winning the Republican nomination because he is the only GOP candidate on the ballot in Thursday's primary.
Nice. This is in a mostly rural, safely Democratic Tennessee district represented by John Tanner. The local GOP is pretty embarrassed about it and a fellow is organizing a write-in campaign to try to deny Hart the nomination. The primary is tomorrow. In the meantime, Hart's website shouldn't be missed.
TrackBackI have wondered about this- what allows people to say 'I am a Republican/Democrat, so I am the Republican/Democratic candidate.
Can't they just disavow you? Is there nothing stopping me from claiming to be a Republican, then running on what is actually a liberal platform?
Posted by: Chance the Gardener at August 5, 2004 09:31 AMAlan Keyes for Illinois state senator? They are no longer scraping the bottom of the barrel. They've broken through and are picking up floor sweepings.
Posted by: Tripp at August 5, 2004 12:10 PMI wonder if this is some smoke and mirrors joke by the Dems and Republicans in Tennessee where they throw up somebody just to give the semblance of competition, but there is really the understanding that the Democrats will get the seat.
Posted by: John Johnson at August 5, 2004 12:12 PMYou know, every day I wake up and it's something new and wacky with the Republicans. Oy.
Posted by: mac at August 5, 2004 01:17 PMThis all sounded vaguely familiar:
"Why do the workers cower today when Rothschild and Rockefeller hold up a dollar and a ruple and claim that these pieces of paper that they inherited when they were born give them the divine right to control the resources of the earth and the destiny of man. Why do the workers cower today when the priests and Ayatollahs hold up a book and claim they have a divine right to rule because they have an autographed picture of god on their desk?"
Shouldn't this be followed by a rousing "Workers of the World, Unite!"