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Another Republican Clown wants to be President - Peter King of New York
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/president-peter-king-new-york-republican-considering-run-for-white-house/
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/07/peter-king-president.php
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/12/glenn-greenwald-slams-rep-peter-king-he-supported-terrorism-for-decades/
I guess Peter King did not see how well New York birther-braggart-clown Donald Trump and New York 911-uber-alles-clown Rudy Giuliani fared in their GOP quest for the White House. 
Anti-muslim bigot, Peter King, is also well known as a long-time supporter of a terrorist organization.
Wikipedia:
King began actively supporting the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s. He frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with senior members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), many of whom he counted as friends. He compared the leader of Sinn Féin, the political wing of the PIRA, Gerry Adams to George Washington, and asserted that the "British government is a murder machine".
King became involved with NORAID, an organization that the British, Irish and U.S. governments had accused of financing IRA activities and providing them with weapons. Regarding the 30 years of violence during which the IRA killed over 1,700 people, including Lord Mountbatten, Lord Kaberry, Sir Anthony Berry MP and over 600 civilians, King said, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it." A U.S. citizen (Kenneth Salvesen) had been killed and another, Mark McDonald, wounded in the December 1983 PIRA Harrods bombing, which resulted in a total of six deaths and ninety injuries.
He also called the PIRA "the legitimate voice of occupied Ireland" although the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), which opposed all violence and spoke for most of Northern Ireland's Catholics at that time, remained the majority nationalist party in Northern Ireland until 2003. Speaking at a pro-PIRA rally in 1982 in Nassau County, New York, King pledged support to "those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry." In 1985, the Irish government boycotted New York's annual St. Patrick's Day celebrations in protest at King serving as Grand Marshal of the event; the Irish government condemned him as an "avowed" supporter of IRA terrorism. At the parade he again offered words of support for the IRA.
King began actively supporting the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s. He frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with senior members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), many of whom he counted as friends. He compared the leader of Sinn Féin, the political wing of the PIRA, Gerry Adams to George Washington, and asserted that the "British government is a murder machine".
King became involved with NORAID, an organization that the British, Irish and U.S. governments had accused of financing IRA activities and providing them with weapons. Regarding the 30 years of violence during which the IRA killed over 1,700 people, including Lord Mountbatten, Lord Kaberry, Sir Anthony Berry MP and over 600 civilians, King said, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it." A U.S. citizen (Kenneth Salvesen) had been killed and another, Mark McDonald, wounded in the December 1983 PIRA Harrods bombing, which resulted in a total of six deaths and ninety injuries.
He also called the PIRA "the legitimate voice of occupied Ireland" although the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), which opposed all violence and spoke for most of Northern Ireland's Catholics at that time, remained the majority nationalist party in Northern Ireland until 2003. Speaking at a pro-PIRA rally in 1982 in Nassau County, New York, King pledged support to "those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry." In 1985, the Irish government boycotted New York's annual St. Patrick's Day celebrations in protest at King serving as Grand Marshal of the event; the Irish government condemned him as an "avowed" supporter of IRA terrorism. At the parade he again offered words of support for the IRA.
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All he needs are numbers on that sign instead of "Mr. King, Chairman."
