THERE IS AN OVER ABUNDANCE OF GOP NUT BAGS!
Gary Ater
September 20, 2010
...Even "Bush´s Brain", Mr. Karl Rove, thinks that Ms. O´Donnell is harmful to the GOP.
The on-going surge of odd-balls among US conservatives and the Republican party recently reached a new high point. This occurred when the Delaware Tea Party candidate, Christine O'Donnell, ousted the Republican establishment favorite to take the Republican primary for the vacant Senate seat left by the now, Vice President, Joe Biden.
The Delaware primary was one of the unlikeliest outcomes of the primary season, given that even a few weeks ago, O'Donnell was widely regarded as being so far right as to be unelectable.
Even the non-grassroots "titular head" of the Tea Part Movement, FreedomWorks, issued a negative statement before the primary saying that Tea Party members should not vote for a Tea Party candidate [Ms. O´Donnell], even if they had a "perfect personal philosophy". This statement was made because even after her primary win, Ms. O´Donnell is still not in a serious position for winning the general election. That´s how little faith the GOP has in Ms. O´Donnell´s chances of beating her Democratic competition.
These results deliver another major shock to the Republican party establishment in withstanding the battering it has had this year from the [so called] "grassroots" Tea Party.
Now, why do I call Ms. O'Donnell a nut case?
Well, it´s this Ms. O´Donnell who is pro-gun, anti-abortion, and a fiscal conservative that also believes "masturbation is a mortal sin". (Oh, and she is seriously supported by the ½ term Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin.)
Yes, this Ms. O'Donnell was the founding leader of the Christian lobbying group; Saviour's Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT). In a television interview a decade ago, she said: "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't masturbate without having lust." Even though this was stated 10 years ago, it is apparently still her strong belief.
And Ms. O´Donnell won her primary by 53% to 47% against the current US Representative, Mike Castle, who has served as a Republican politician for 30 years, including a GOP stint as the Delaware governor.
Now you might ask, "Why did I say Ms. O´Donnell was just the latest in a long list of Republican nut cases?"
Well, the list is very long. Let´s look at some of them, one at a time.
Sarah Palin is an American politician, author, speaker, and political news commentator who was the youngest person and the first woman elected Governor of Alaska. She served as governor from 2006 until she resigned in 2009. Palin was chosen by Republican Party presidential candidate Senator John McCain in August 2008 to be his running mate in that year's presidential election. She was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party, as well as the first female vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party.
Palin is such a bizarre celebrity and politician that I will only recommend that everyone Google "Sarah Palin Crazy Quotes" on the Internet and read for yourself all the crazy and bizarre things that this Republican politician has said in public.
Knute Gingrich: This disgraced former Speaker of the House has now stated that President Obama suffers from "a Kenyan anti-colonial world view". This is the same Speaker that went strongly after President´s Clinton´s sexual adventures at the same time Knute was having an extramarital affair while his wife was undergoing cancer treatments….? Knute is currently on his third wife, and he was having an affair with both of his previous "to-be wives", well before he had his two divorces.
Mark Sanford: This is the GOP South Carolina Governor that had told his staff that he would be hiking on the Appalachian Trail, and while he was gone, he did not answer 15 emergency cell phone calls from his chief of staff. He also failed to call his family on his own Father's Day. At the time, the governor was actually not on the "trail", but was in Argentina with a woman with which he was having a torrid affair.
Mark Foley: It was previously reported that this former GOP Florida Representative Foley had sent email messages from his personal AOL account to former Congressional Pages, asking them to send a photo of themselves to Foley. The original news report prompted other Pages to come forward to confirm the story and in 2006, ABC News reported that it had seen excerpts of sexually explicit instant messages sent by Foley. The instant messages made repeated references to sexual organs and sexual acts.
David Vitter: In 2007, this GOP Senator from Louisiana´s phone number was found to be included in a published list of phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates, a company owned and run by a woman also known as the "DC Madam". This woman had been convicted by the U.S. government for running a prostitution service. Hustler Magazine identified the phone number and contacted Vitter's office to ask about his connection to the DC Madam. The following day, Vitter issued a written statement saying: "This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible." Interesting situation for a member of the so-called, "Family Values Party".
John McCain: This GOP Senator from Arizona, that ran against Barack Obama for the US Presidency, for years was known as the "Maverick of the Senate". Even the cover of his own biography had a sub-title referring to him as a "Maverick". But during the latest Republican primary, the Senator mysteriously stated that he "Had never referred to himself as a Maverick." And he said he never knew where the Maverick name came from in the first place. All this, regardless of the many years that Senator McCain had voted against the GOP´s platforms that had given him his so-called "Maverick" reputation.
Michele Bachmann: This GOP Minnesota Congresswoman says so many bizarre things that there are web sites dedicated to her crazy statements. One site even starts with, "The only one woman more stupid than Sarah Palin is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann." Here is one example from Ms. Bachmann: "There is no study that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." I guess Ms. Bachmann should put a plastic bag over her head to see just how "harmless" CO2 really is. (Ms. Bachmann also recently signed an official congressional document where she misspelled her own name.)
Virginia Foxx: This is the elder GOP Congresswoman from North Carolina that made the nation´s "top ten worst political quotes" when she said on the floor of the house: ''Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.''. Ms. Foxx is continually singled out in Congress for making some outrageously stupid remark.
Joe Wilson: This is the GOP South Carolina Congressman that made the "#1 Quote of the Year" when he yelled "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during an official presidential address to a joint session of the US Congress. The party then demanded that Mr. Wilson quickly apologize for the outburst.
Rick Santorum: This is the past Republican Senator that in 1996 had a prematurely born son that only lived for 2 hours. The senator and his wife then proceeded to take the deceased infant home from the hospital where they introduced the dead child to their living children. He and his wife then slept with the child´s body overnight before returning it to the hospital. There were many other strange and shady things in which the then Senator Santorum was involved. Finally, in the November 2006 election, Senator Santorum lost big with 41% of the vote to his opponents 59%, which was statistically the worst defeat ever for any incumbent Republican Senator in Pennsylvania. Mr. Santorum is currently a DC Lawyer and a member of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington DC based conservative "think tank".
Dr. "Bill" Frist, Sr. is an American physician, businessman and politician. He began his career as an heir and major stockholder to the for-profit hospital chain of Hospital Corporation of America. Frist later served two terms as a Republican United States Senator representing Tennessee. He was the Republican Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007.
In the Terri Schiavo Court Case, this case was where after many years, a husband wanted to remove his brain-dead wife´s gastric feeding tube. Without examining the brain-dead woman, Senator, Dr. Frist, opposed the removal of the feeding tube. In a speech delivered on the Senate Floor, Senator Frist challenged the diagnosis of Schiavo's physicians and of Schiavo being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). He said, "I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office." Frist was criticized by a medical ethicist at Northwestern University for making a diagnosis without personally examining the patient and for questioning the diagnosis when he was not even a neurologist. After her death, the autopsy showed signs of long-term and irreversible damage to her brain, very consistent with being in a PVS.
In 2008, Dr. Frist became a partner in Chicago-based Cressey & Co. investing in the nation's health care market
Larry Craig is a former Republican politician from the state of Idaho. He served eighteen years in the US Senate, preceded by ten years in the U.S. House, representing Idaho's first district. In addition to serving in Congress, Craig has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association since 1983.
On June 11, 2007, Craig was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on suspicion of lewd conduct in the men's restroom, where he was accused of soliciting an undercover police officer for sexual activity. During the resulting interview with the arresting officer, Craig insisted upon his innocence, disputing the officer's version of the event by stating that he merely had a "wide stance" and that he had been picking a piece of paper from the floor.
In spite of his claims of innocence and public pleas saying "I am not gay, and have never been gay", Craig later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct by signing and mailing a plea petition in 2007, to the Hennepin County District Court in Minnesota. He paid $575, including fines and fees. Senator Craig signed the petition to enter his guilty plea, which contained the provisions, "I understand that the court will not accept a plea of guilty from anyone who claims to be innocent... I now make no claim that I am innocent of the charge to which I am entering a plea of guilty."
Craig eventually retired as a US Senator and after his retirement, Craig opened the consulting firm of New West Strategies with his former chief of staff, focusing on energy issues.
John Ensign is the junior US Senator from Nevada, serving since January 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party and the former chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
This is the same Senator John Ensign that had an extramarital affair with Cynthia Hampton, who was married to one of his top aides, and who worked for Ensign for Senate. At the time of the affair, Cynthia Hampton's husband, Douglas Hampton, was a top administrative aide in Ensign´s Capitol Hill office, and Ensign and his wife had been close friends with the Hamptons before they were hired to work for Ensign. When the affair came to light in 2009, an Ensign spokesperson asserted that it had occurred between December 2007 and August 2008, but Doug Hampton said that it began at Christmas 2006.
In April 2008, Ensign's parents gave Cynthia Hampton and her family $96,000. On July 9, 2009, when the payments were reported in the news, Ensign's lawyer, Paul Coggins, issued a statement on Ensign's behalf stating "The payments were made as gifts, accepted as gifts and complied with tax rules governing gifts." In late 2009, Hampton told Nightline the opposite, saying it was "crystal clear" that the $96,000 was, in fact, severance and not a gift.
In 2008, after Hampton began working for the political consulting firm, Ensign and his staff repeatedly contacted federal agencies, often after requests from Hampton, on behalf of the companies that were Hampton's clients. In a statement published on October 1, the date that The New York Times reported on Ensign's arrangements for Douglas Hampton, Ensign said: "I am confident we fully complied with the relevant laws and rules governing current and past employees. I have worked on these Nevada issues with these Nevada companies for years, long before Doug Hampton left my office."
The progressive watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington also has asked the Senate to investigate Mr. Hampton's additional charge that Senator Ensign sexually harassed his wife, which his wife has declined to deny.
This is just a small selection of the long-list of Republican "nut cases" that continually prefer to: "Open mouth, insert foot".
Copyright G.Ater, 2010
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