"The most frightening candidate I’ve met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls"

[KeepItReal]

As a House analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, I’ve personally interviewed over 300 congressional candidates over the course of seven years, both to get to know them and evaluate their chances of winning. I’ve been impressed by just as many Republicans as Democrats, and underwhelmed by equal numbers, too. Most are accustomed to tough questions.

But never have I met any candidate quite as frightening or fact-averse as Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney, 55, who visited my office last Wednesday. It’s tough to decide which party’s worst nightmare she would be.

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Whitney’s brand of rhetoric obviously resonates with some very conservative Louisiana voters who view President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency as big-city elitists directly attacking the state’s energy industry and their own way of life. And she would hardly be the first “climate denier” elected to Congress. But it’s not unreasonable to expect candidates to explain how they arrived at their positions, and when I pressed Whitney repeatedly for the source of her claim that the earth is getting colder, she froze and was unable to cite a single scientist, journal or news source to back up her beliefs.

To change the subject, I asked whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. When she replied that it was a matter of some controversy, her two campaign consultants quickly whisked her out of the room, accusing me of conducting a “Palin-style interview.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/30/the-most-frightening-candidate-ive-met-in-seven-years-interviewing-congressional-hopefuls/

[brewens]

1. Looks like a cross between Palin and that ignorant hag Arizona calls a governor! LOL n/t

[dembotoz]

2. glenn grothman is running for congress in the 6th cd in wisconsin

3 others also in open seat primary.

all 4 are trying to out conservative each other

[lunasun]

5. Yep he is mentioned as another possible win in the article

The GOP’s fringe fears aren’t limited to the Deep South. In Wisconsin, state Sen. Glenn Grothman is locked in a fierce three-way primary for retiring moderate GOP Rep. Tom Petri’s 6th District, near Sheboygan. In 2012, Grothman sponsored a bill to classify single parenthood as a contributing factor to childhood and neglect. Grothman has derided the Democratic group Emily’s List as a “historically racist organization” and has been quoted alleging “unwanted pregnancies are the fault of mothers … many mothers lie about the circumstances of their pregnancies.” If Grothman wins the August primary, he would be the favorite in November.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. I'm always dubious about superlatives.

There are so many complete and utter idiots in the RW fold that I think they're constantly jockeying for the title of 'most frightening'.

[lunasun]

4. Could win in La

cites Minnesota’s Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) as a political role model, and takes kindly to the nickname “Palin of the South.”
Crazy stupid and proud of it

[MsLeopard]

6. From the article

"To change the subject, I asked whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. When she replied that it was a matter of some controversy, her two campaign consultants quickly whisked her out of the room, accusing me of conducting a “Palin-style interview.”

It was the first time in hundreds of Cook Political Report meetings that a candidate has fled the room.

She fled the interview! And that was after he wrote that she "takes kindly to the nickname “Palin of the South.” Too funny!

[n2doc]

7. Hice is another nutjob

from the article:

Elsewhere, other aspirants are keeping Beltway Republicans up at night. Last week, Baptist pastor and talk radio host Jody Hice won the Republican nomination to succeed Broun in Georgia’s 10th District, essentially cinching a seat in Congress in the fall. Passages from his book, “It’s Now or Never: A Call to Reclaim America,” compare homosexuality to bestiality and compare supporters of legal abortion to Adolph Hitler, among other greatest hits. Hice’s shoot-from-the-lip style gins up religious conservative activists but is also tailor made for DCCC fundraising e-mails and “Daily Show” lampooning. For Democrats, Hice may be the gift that keeps on giving.



From one nutjob to another nutjob.

[CanonRay]

8. Anther shit for brains Republican

there seems to be an endless supply of them.

[hifiguy]

9. Is there a tank farm or Frankenstein lab somewhere

where these mouth-breathing, bottom-feeding morons are created in quantity?

[BrotherIvan]

10. Evangelical Churches

[hifiguy]

11. So true.

How could I have forgotten. Idiot factories, every one, and on an industrial scale.