In today's edition of "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day..."
It was this time last year that we profiled former Congressional candidate and current Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose aspirations to head to Congress back in 2012 were cut short during the GOP Primary when the anti-immigrant sheriff was outed as gay by an ex-lover (pictured above) who also happened to be an illegal immigrant who Babeu tried to intimidate into keeping their love affair clandestine by threatening to deport him if he went to the media.
Originally, I thought Sheriff Babeu would be content to keep a low profile and be glad he could be re-elected county sheriff as a Republican, given their general disapproval for gays, and the astounding hypocrisy of wanting to get rid of undocumented migrants while you’re sharing a bed with one. I mean, sure, Babeu’s name would pop up in news stories like when Republican Congressional candidate Adam Kwasman shouted at a bus full of children headed to YMCA camp thinking it was full of migrant children. Guess who tipped off the rabid xenophobes that a bus was supposed to come through that day that they could scream at and try to stop? Sheriff Paul Babeu, of course! (At least he didn’t try to take any of the kids home with him, like when he was dating teenagers back when he worked as a headmaster at a Massachusetts boarding school for troubled youth, though).
So perhaps given Sheriff Babeu has twice in his life been caught abusing a position of power to put himself in a romantic relationship that would be ethically dubious and with such hypocrisy might not be someone the Arizona GOP would want on the ticket… but with Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona’s 1st District running against Sen. John McCain for his U.S. Senate seat…
Paul Babeu saw an opportunity he could not pass up, and is entering the race. Thus, he remains in the CSGOPOTD queue, and we can continue to observe how he caters to racists in his quest to join the ranks of an already bizarre and dysfunctional House GOP caucus that are hell-bent on preventing immigration reform.