This is somewhat old news now, because it’s a story from 2014, but here’s an actual statement by a real-life Republican state legislator, Tennessee Sen. Stacey Campfield:
“Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory sign ups for ‘train rides’ for Jews in the 40s. ‘I think Jewish people should be the first to stand up against Obamacare,’ Campfield said. ‘If government is controlling people’s health insurance, they are potentially controlling people’s lives….letting the government choose who lives and who dies.'”
Daily Kos writer “Hunter” sums it up best:
“That’s Republican State Sen. Stacey Campfield, America, a man who is pretty sure a plan to give Americans health insurance is like the Holocaust. And this, America, is why looking for the Republican Party to become less batshit insane in the near future is a fool’s quest. That bench is too deep.”
(Click here to link.) This isn’t Campfield’s first foray into offensive idiocy. He also made a tasteless crack about the Boston Marathon bombing:
“State Sen. Stacey Campfield joked on his personal blog Monday about ‘assault pressure cookers’ in the wake of last week’s bombing in Boston. […] Under a headline that referred to U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, one of the leading proponents of gun control, Campfield cataloged the dangerous features on a pressure cooker, including a ‘muzzle break thingy,’ ‘tactical grip’ and ‘evil, black’ color. Pressure cookers were, of course, turned into IEDs in the Boston bombings.”
(Click here for source.) So my question is, why do Republicans make remarks like this? I’ll let The Ave readers decide. Here’s my impromptu poll:
[ ] 1. Because they crave attention any way they can get it.
[ ] 2. Because they’re terminal morons.
[ ] 3. Because their mothers dropped them on their heads when they were infants.
[ ] 4. To raise campaign money by riling up the rubes.
[ ] 5. Does it matter why?
Note: This idiot is no longer a Tennessee state senator, because he lost a primary last year. No word yet on whether his replacement, another Republican, is an equally big idiot.