This election season has given us a lot of crazy candidates who probably would never had a chance to win. America has gone bonkers. Rich Iott, the Tea Party-backed GOP candidate for U.S. House of Represetatives in Ohio’s 9th district has to take some kind of nutter prize. He has an unusual hobby:
The Atlantic’s Josh Green reports that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio’s Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he’s a Nazi.
Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a group of Ohio World War II reenactors.
According to their website, the Wikings strive to “salute” the “idealists” from occupied northern Europe who saw the Third Reich as “the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life” and signed up to fight for the Wermacht and “gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free.”
You know who else liked to dress as a Nazi? Hitler.