Welcome to Wednesday. It’s a post Super Tuesday primary day so there’s lots of election results to discuss. Were there any big surprises? I’d have to say my biggest surprise of the night was the win of Alvin Greene in the Democratic primary for South Carolina Senate. He had no money or campaign website and defeated Vic Rawl.
I was a little bit sad to learn that crazy chicken lady Sue Lowden won’t be the GOP nominee for NV-Sen. She was very entertaining. Let’s start talking about the other crazy lady from the NV-Sen race, Sharron Angle. She has the support of the Tea Party and the Club for Growth. She’s also a nutter.
The peculiar ideology of Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee challenging Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, is perhaps no better illustrated than by her embrace of the patriot group Oath Keepers, whose membership of uniformed soldiers and police take an oath to refuse orders they see as unconstitutional — including enforcement of gun laws, violations of states’ sovereignty, and “any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.”
“We support what the organization stands for,” said Angle’s husband, Ted, told TPMDC in a phone interview Monday. “Sharron does.”
Members of Oath Keepers — whose motto is “Not on our watch!” — take a 10-item oath affirming that they will not, for example, force citizens into detention camps or invade a state “that asserts its sovereignty and declares the national government to be in violation of the compact by which that state entered the Union.”
Why won’t someone think of the children?
Proving that some of the opposition to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) is rooted in homophobia rather than legitimate concerns about military readiness or unit cohesion, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) told reporters yesterday that the military should keep the policy intact “in part to avoid parents having to talk to their children about homosexuality”:
According to the Associated Press, Skelton told reporters that repeal of the policy could put families in a difficult position because it could prompt children to ask about homosexuality.
“What do mommies and daddies say to their 7-year-old child?” he asked.
Skelton, one of the 26 Democrats who opposed repeal in the House, added that his “biggest concern are the families.”
Skelton also said yesterday that he will continue opposing repeal, even though his constituents don’t care about gays openly serving in the military. “I was everywhere in my district, everywhere. It just wasn’t raised,” Skelton said. “There are other things on people’s minds, like jobs and the economy.”
Ladies and gentlemen, Ike Skelton, dinosaur.