Illinois GOP Congressional Candidate: ‘The Holocaust Never Happened’

[drm604]

The hits just keep on coming.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/29/434460/illinois-gop-holocaust-never-happened

Art Jones wants to be the U.S. Representative from the 3rd district of Illinois, which encompasses part of the South Side of Chicago and its suburbs. But his mish-mash of a platform — ranging from some standard Republican positions to classical isolationism — will probably not garner the same attention as his views that surfaced today on AOL’s Patch local news service. Jones, a neo-Nazi, says the “Holocaust never happened“

"As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews. It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV."

Jones says his philosophy is National Socialism (Nazi for short) and he was once a member of an Illinois Nazi party. “Officially,” says Jones today, “I don’t belong to any party except my own, the America First Committee” — harkening back to a group, among them fascist sympathizers, that opposed U.S. entry into World War II. Accordingly, Jones wants to end the so-called “war on terror” and is “completely against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the deployment of troops to other countries.”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The Republican Party attracts these wackos

like shit attracts flies.

[darkangel218]

2. Hmm interesting.

I bet no one is going to vote for him after this, with the exception of his immediate family, if that.

What a crazy fuck.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. I HATE Illinois Nazis

[drm604]

6. Ha ha

I never thought of that.

[Gman]

7. LOL! Beat me to it!

[Tennessee Gal]

4. The Republican Party is infested with lunatics.

They seem to be multiplying.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. “I don’t belong to any party except my own,"

Yet he is running on a GOP ticket?

M'kay.

[former9thward]

8. He is in Bill Lipinski's district.

Lipinski is a DINO but the district always votes Democratic for congress. No Republican ever runs against him so it is very easy for a nut job to get on the ballot as the R candidate. You just need some signatures that nobody at the election board seriously checks.

[mucifer]

11. Yeah and lipinski just about always votes with the republicans

The only reason he is a democrat is because of the old Chicago patronage system. That community is very conservative and the precinct captains tell people to vote for him and they do. I volunteered in the past in the primaries canvassing there and it wasn't much fun.

[treestar]

9. the South Side of Chicago

Is that a place where a Republican would never win?

Where are they getting these whackos? They seem to be crawling out of the woodwork this election. First Akin, now this.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Makes you wonder

[Scuba]

10. Just another mainstream Republican.

[sofa king]

13. "You got your stupid in my evil!"

My Peanut Butter Cup theory of the Republican Party still stands:

A melting and weakening shell of evil is failing to contain the larger, oozing mass of stupid inside. Now the stupid is running.