Welcome to your Tuesday open thread. We had yet another Senate debate today. Did anyone attend the debate? Did anything new happen? Use the thread below to share your thoughts.
Idiot Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller not only wants to arrest journalists who make him uncomfortable, he thinks Communist East Germany had it about right. He cites East Germany as a model for border security. Seriously.
Anchorage blogger Steve Aufrecht reports that during the town hall, he cited his time serving at the Fulda Gap, one point on the former border between East and West Germany during the Cold War.
During that time, he said, “East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow” from one side of the border to the other. “Now, obviously, other things there were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, obviously to secure our border. If East Germany could, we could.”
Has there been a candidate with more unforced errors than Joe Miller? He’s worse than all the Republican candidates (and there are some terrible ones) except maybe Carl Paladino.
Another crazy Republican candidate is Ken Buck, GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Colorado. He’s a misogynist who refused to prosecute an admitted rapist because the woman had a previous relationship with the alleged rapist. He called it case of buyer’s remorse. He still believe he’s right (saying yes to sex once means yes to sex forever?):
MR. GREGORY: You told the Greeley Tribune, “A jury could very well conclude that this was a case of buyer’s remorse,” after you looked at the circumstances of the case and decided not to prosecute. A lot of people thought that was an insensitive remark. … what about what you told the Greeley Tribune?
MR. BUCK: What I told the Greeley Tribune, I gave them five or six reasons why I thought a jury could decline this case.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
MR. BUCK: One of the reasons was the fact that she had regretted this relationship, and she had buyer’s remorse as a result of the relationship that she had with this young man.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
MR. BUCK: That is, that is something that I think when, when someone decides to make a case public, the public has to understand why.
MR. GREGORY: Senator, is this an issue?
SEN. BENNET: I just–I, I do think it’s an issue. Look, I have a lot of sympathy for the victim in this case. He just used the language again, buyer’s remorse, and is the father of three little girls. I just think that’s the wrong way to talk about this kind of set of circumstances, especially when you’re a prosecutor.
The most crazy thing? Buck and Bennett are neck-and-neck in the latest polls.