A Republican incumbent held on against his upstart Tea Party challenger in Mississippi, but let’s be clear: Radical right-wing candidates secured their place on the ballot in races for federal, state and local office yesterday.
People PFAW’s Right Wing Watch follows closely like:
Gordon Klingenschmitt, a candidate for state representative, in Colorado, who:
- Said teaching kids about same-sex marriage is mind rape and gay rights supporters want to “recruit” children into “perversion"…
- Says atheists – and many, many other people he disagrees with – are possessed by demonic spirits …
- Asserted that the Bible says, “all the citizens ought to be armed so they can defend themselves against left-wing crazies” …
- Said, on various occasions, that liberals promote child rape and that laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination are “blasphemy,” “full perversion” and “outright tyranny”…
And Michael Peroutka, a far-right activist and county council candidate in Maryland who:
- Has compared same-sex marriage to bank robbery and called NFL draft pick Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend on TV "sewer filth"…
- Said, "the promotion of evolution is an act of disloyalty to America," and supplied the Creation Museum with a "4,300-year-old" dinosaur skeleton …
- Bankrolled, through his foundation, a national speaking tour for Alabama Judge Roy Moore, the infamous crusader against the separation of church and state …
- Claims there is no such thing as "civil rights" enforceable by the government, and is a supporter and former board member of a secessionist, neo-Confederate group that believes that the Union's victory in the Civil War brought on all of America's ills…
On the congressional front…
We knew that after Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary loss to an even bigger Tea Party extremist that the GOP would shift even farther to the right.
Well, they have not wasted a single minute.
Newly elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy made his very first official appearance at Religious Right icon and former Christian Coalition Director Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition conference over the weekend.
The event was nothing more than an extremist hate fest, featuring a butcher shop’s worth of red meat for right-wing activists from the likes of Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Allen West and John Bolton, and even pictures of President Obama placed in the men’s room urinals.
Then on Sunday, McCarthy appeared on Fox News to assure the GOP base know that Republicans are unifying around a more extreme right-wing issue agenda.
This is the same political party that is backed by endless special interest cash and will be pulling out every distortion and dirty trick to take over the U.S. Senate this year.
These recent happenings are just the latest example of why 2014 is a fight we can’t lose.