If your state could have a state fool

[panader0]

who would that fool be? I misread the other post, so I started this one.
I live in Arizona, so there are so many to choose from, but I'll say Arpaio (with apologies to McCain, Flake, Gov Ducey, and McSalley)

[peacefreak]

1. That's easy

Maine has one. His name is Paul LePage

[avebury]

37. That is an easy choice.

I was born and lived in Maine for years. It was such a rational state before LePage came along.

[DFW]

2. Very unfair !!!!!!!!

You ask that of a Texan?

If I ABSOLUTELY MUST, then I'll give you Louie Gohmert, but the list of runners up is so very vast...........

[TexasTowelie]

3. It's too difficult to decide

since Texas is right for the pickin's.

[hamsterjill]

21. Amen!!!

It would be easier to pick the sane people!!! Fewer of us left me thinks!

[bluedigger]

4. Probably Ken Buck here in CO.

It's a competitive field.

[niyad]

10. eeeps, forgot him on my list!!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Well, I'm in New York and have unlimited choices, but...

one New Yorker has placed himself head and shoulders above the rest of the wankers.

[KamaAina]

24. Don't you mean "hair and shoulders"?

[Avalux]

6. Holy crap where do I start?????

Bush(es)
Delay
Cruz
Perry
Abbott
Gohmert

There's a few. There are a lot more but I'm mentally tapped just writing those names.

[mythology]

35. To be fair to Texas

Both Bushes and Ted Cruz are transplants to Texas.

[davidpdx]

7. For Oregon

I nominate Dennis Richardson.

[Iggo]

8. Darrel Issa.

Winner.

[antiquie]

32. Second.

It'll be unanimous.

[mackerel]

43. I can think of no other fool

[olddots]

47. Darrel Issa is a galactic class fool .

[niyad]

9. oh my word-the list is endless--doug bruce, doug lamborn, cory gardner, klingenschmidt, tancredo,

musgrave, malkin, and the list goes on. and on. . .and on. . .

[madamesilverspurs]

15. Coffman...

and Coffman.

[niyad]

17. had forgotten him and buck--and know there are more, but it is too early.

[fizzgig]

29. pretty comprehensive list

but you forgot bob beauprez. i'd toss kevin lundberg (state senator up this way) on the list, too.

[niyad]

39. you are correct.

and then, of course, we have will perkins, ted haggard, charles duke . . .

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. In MN it would have to be Michele Bachmann.

[LynneSin]

20. I'd think now that she's retired she's move to Switzerland

Isn't she a Swiss citizen now

Let her fuck up that country awhile.

[justamama83]

12. No brainer

Chris Christie

[NJCher]

44. We must have an illustration for our fool

This is how much of a fool we have:



Biggest fool ever!


Cher

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Rick Snyder, Michigan's Union-Busting Governor. nt

[Sanity Claws]

14. Trump for New York

Man, that guy is an embarrassment.

[femmocrat]

16. Rick Santorum -- PA

He has lived in VA for ages, but still considers himself a western Pennsylvanian.

I was going to say Corbett, but he has pretty much disappeared since his well-deserved defeat last year.

[LynneSin]

18. Yea but he lives in Virginia and Pennsylvania has plenty of other fools

Although you did get rid of Tom Corbett!

[LynneSin]

19. In Delaware it would have to be Christine O'Donnell

Although technically I think she lives in New Jersey these days. And since 2010 she's kept a really low profile. I know we'd love to permamently send her home because we really do not appreciate people using our smaller state for their political aspirations.

And the way she treated Mike Castle with the 'man-pants' comments was was not very well appreciated. She should be grateful Delaware is a closed election primary or she would have never won that election. Castle is very well respect by both Republicans and Democrats because he's moderate.

With her gone, not sure who our biggest embarassment is. Maybe that couple that decided to have public sex behind a Dunkin Donut on St Patty's Day in Newark and it got filmed and went viral?

[shenmue]

22. Rick Scott

[onethatcares]

33. Pam Blondie

the state house speaker, his name escapes me at this point,

[hay rick]

41. CrisaFOOLi

Our state is truly blessed with fools. Crisafulli is pretty far down the list. We get at least partial credit for Donald Trump who spends time at Mar-a-Lago. Sadly(?) we lost Allen West to Texas this year...but we still have Marco and Jeb!

[steve2470]

57. amen, he's the top fool indeed nt

[KamaAina]

23. Ahh-nuld, of course

[jmowreader]

25. Pick one

http://legislature.idaho.gov/house/membership.cfm

[2naSalit]

55. Indeed...

since Senator Wide-Stance and the Dink are just low-life lobbyists now, Lenore Barret finally got the boot (though I think one of her kin is darkening the state senate in MT) and Helen Chenowith croaked ... but then there's Butch and those Congress critters creeping/slithering about...

Sorry, I had to move from there, things aren't all that much better in MT these days either.

Notice how the surnames are all still about the same?

[magical thyme]

26. LeRage in Maine

too easy.

[SecularMotion]

27. It was Scott Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown

But he left the state, so I guess the title goes to this Scott

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lively

The last news I read, he was leaving for California. I'm not sure who's next in the line of succession.

[cyberswede]

28. Rep. Steve King

[rurallib]

40. Joni Ernst and Bob Vander Plaats too

We could fill a bus!

[Chan790]

30. Connecticut makes it easy.

We have two prominent Republicans (Tom Foley and Linda McMahon), zero Republican statewide or national office-holders...and both of the aforementioned politicians have basically declared retirement from wasting more money running for office in a state un-winnable for the GOP.

That leaves us only one really strong choice...perennial GOP runner-up in every major primary: Peter Schiff. An insane gold-bugging Paulite that has nearly bottomless reserves of money to throw away running for office in what may be the most hostile state in the US to libertarian conservatives. (Seriously, our GOP is moderate and our Democrats are liberal statists. Neither major party embraces libertarian values here.)

[GeorgeGist]

31. Ted Nugent.

[liberaltrucker]

34. My Home State, Alabama-Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions

Pennsylvania, where I currently live, Frothy, of course.

[avebury]

36. Oklahoma has so many to choose from. The current top candidate

would be Mary Fallin who has not clue about what the three branches of government are.

Runner Ups:
Jim Inhoffe
Sally Kern
James Lankford

Any Republican who is voted State Attorney General for continually defending blatently unconstitutional laws as the expense of the tax payers and then filing appeals after each inevitable court loss. And the State AG is supposed to be a lawyer? You could have fooled m.

[trof]

38. Alabama Supreme Court CHIEF Justice Roy Moore, but...

It's a target rich environment here.
Guv Bentley is a very close second.
Hard to choose.

[logosoco]

42. For Missouri: Rush Limbaugh

His hateful mug is even on display at the state capitol, Jefferson City.


He has helped tie many of the fools from all the other states together.

[Sherman A1]

56. Agreed

He was the one that came to mind for me as well.

[Skittles]

45. Dubya

[kairos12]

53. He is a National Fool. Sorry.

[Skittles]

54. OK then, Perry

yes INDEED

[Joe Shlabotnik]

46. Well, my state

(or rather province) lays claim to Mayor Rob Ford!

[nirvana555]

48. For CA the obvious choice has already been posted, Darrell Issa, and i completely agree. However,

I kid you not, there's an Orange County Lawyer, Matthew McLaughlin, who's trying to do something like getting a proposition on the ballot to make it legal to kill gays!! WTF?!?! I don't know if it's a publicity stunt or what.

[cwydro]

49. My state can trump all of yours because

we had Jesse Helms as our state fool for years.

Now McCrory will do, or Franklin Graham.

Our recently convicted Charlotte mayor, Patrick Cannon is another.

[locks]

50. Colorado's clown car

is filling up. Tancredo's still in and Klingenschmitt is driving of course.

[lins the liberal]

51. Huckabee

The Huckster from Arkansas. Of course we have several others who are close behind. oops I forgot maybe we have a tie between the Huckster and Tom Cotton.

[kairos12]

52. Arpaio for Arizona. He is a legendary fool.