Newest chapter in the GOP civil war: Paul Broun's (Georgia Tea Party congressman) to run for senate
Broun's candidacy puts Republican Senate officials in Washington in an awkward if familiar position. Once again, they're left hoping the conservative movement doesn't galvanize behind a candidate whose well-documented penchant for controversy could put at risk what otherwise would be a sure-fire victory.
It's hard to overstate just how unusual Paul Broun really is. Words like "crazy" and "extreme" are used with some frequency to describe politicians on the fringes of modern American thought, but even among the true cranks, Broun is a unique individual.
Rachel noted many of the congressman's greatest hits the other night, and the segment is well worth your time. Broun, for example, is perhaps best known for arguing that that cosmology, biology, and geology are, quite literally, "lies straight from the pit of Hell," and that President Obama only believes in supporting "the Soviet constitution."
But we can keep going. Broun, an apparent Birther, believes cap-and-trade would kill people; the Affordable Care Act will dictate what kind of car Americans can drive; the health care reform effort reminds him of "Northern Aggression"; and that he considers President Obama to be a Hitler-like figure intent on establishing a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship on Americans.
Paul Broun has to be exactly the kind of candidate who's deemed wholly unacceptable by sane elements of the Republican Party.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/07/16887477-a-political-test-emerges-in-georgia
If Democrats have any chance in Georgia we should hope that republicans nominate this lunatic.
