Missouri GOP Senate Candidate Says He Expects Dinner on the Table from His Fianc Every Night

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32. One reason why some think there's a chance it's all a bit of performance art, or parody

John Messmer, a poli sci professor at St. Louis Community College, summarizes the strange case of “Courtland Sykes” — the apparent Breitbartian candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Missouri:

“I’m 99.9 percent sure it’s not parody,” Messmer said. “It’s not something strategic done by the Democratic side or someone that’s looking to criticize the conservative or Republican position.

“I do hold back that .1 percent,” Messmer said. “This might be one of the greatest examples of political performance art I’ve ever seen.”

Sykes’ candidacy is so outrageous that Messmer, like me — and like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, can’t quite be 100-percent sure it’s not all a big put-on. I mean, just look at his name. It all seems a bit too … well, too something.
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This Post-Dispatch article is from last fall — October 8 — but it’s making news again this week because, on Tuesday, Sykes reposted his “women’s rights” screed on his campaign Facebook site. That’s how it wound up exploding on social media where it has been widely described as a “Facebook rant.”

But it’s not that. Thinking of it only as a Facebook rant makes it sound like something written impulsively and then posted hastily by someone who might have spoken more carefully after getting a bit more sleep. That’s not what this is — this is from a campaign document voluntarily sent to a newspaper several months ago. Sykes has had several months to rethink, clarify, or qualify his comments, but hasn’t done so. The only change he made was to correct his misspelling of Gloria Steinem’s name.

Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2018/01/25/embrace-deception-learn-bend/#3i2CRpFDVKEJewCq.99