North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer is now engaged in a competition with himself to see just how much of a colossal asshole he can be. Speaking last week of his women colleagues who wore white to Donald Trump's congressional address to honor the suffrage movement, Cramer bleated it was a sign of mental instability:
"But by the way, did you notice how poorly several of them were dressed as well? It is a syndrome. There is no question, there is a disease associated with the notion that a bunch of women would wear bad-looking white pantsuits in solidarity with Hillary Clinton to celebrate her loss. You cannot get that weird."
His attempts to explain away his remarks have not gone well, and his latest effort is just embarrassing:
"These are not victims of some, you know, egregious action by their male-dominant counterparts. I referenced, you know, the bad-looking pantsuits, if you will. That's not a literal statement. I wouldn't know a good-looking pantsuit from a bad-looking pantsuit."
So I insulted the way women were dressed, but I didn't mean it literally! Man, is that perfectly Trumpian or what? It all makes perfect sense, though: Cramer has claimed he's Trump's top choice to challenge Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp next year. At the rate he's going, he might just be Heitkamp's top choice, too.