Broun just won re-election with 61% of the vote in one of Georgia's right-wing backwaters, the 10th CD which, ironically, contains the liberal city of Athens, sticking out like a blue thumb in a rural and mountainous KKK redoubt, well protected from any sense of modernity or reality. (Broun was sounded rejected in Clarke County, home of Athens, where he only managed to get 37% of the vote. He doesn't care and, in fact, he said the whole town is "a liberal bastion" and "ought to be bombed," as long as someone saves the University of Athens football team.)
In case you still haven't gotten a clear picture, let me paint it out. Paul Broun is a neo-fascist lunatic who was elected to congress by a bunch of toothless rednecks high on racism, hatred, paranoia, fake religion, and homemade meth. Yesterday Rep. Broun-- in a display of classic Republican jujitsu projectionism-- warned his already demented contituents that President-elect Obama has the "potential" to become Hitler.
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force. I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may-- may not, I hope not-- but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism... That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Turns out the demented Georgian was confusing his paranoid visions of a gestapo with Senator Obama's call for expanding the nation's foreign service and doubling the size of the Peace Corps. Broun is worried sick that Obama "likely will move to ban gun ownership if he does build a national police force." Or is he just hoping to keep Obama from coming down to Georgia and campaigning for Jim martin's run-off bid against Broun's idol Saxby Chamberpot?
"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential." At a lunch yesterday at the Martinez-Evans Rotary Club at the Doubletree Hotel Broun continued the idiocy, calling Obama a Marxist and then complaining that McCain was inept and not conservative enough, "a milquetoast Republican."
OK, so Broun has the most extremist voting record in Congressand he's batshit crazy and he's calling Obama a Marxist and a fascist. What I can't understand is why his pal Saxby Chambliss won't disassociate himself from this bizarre freak. Is it because Chambliss is afraid to lose the KKK part of the Republican base in rural Georgia? Or because he and Broun feel the same way?
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