Just when you think it can’t get any stranger.. Missouri’s senate race to challenge Claire McCaskill has a new entry, and boy, is his platform a doozy.
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In the document, Sykes criticizes political correctness. He takes aim at modern feminism, praises Breitbart News, derides “Big Media,” belittles the Muslim faith and, in a jab at the nation’s education system, says Detroit “is crawling with uneducated people who can’t read a breakfast menu.”
In his final answer, Sykes responded to the question: “Do you favor women’s rights?”
“Chanel (Rion), my fiancee, has given me orders to favor these rights, so I’d better,” he said. “But Chanel knows that my obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway — I want to come home to a home-cooked dinner at six every night, one that she fixes.
“It’s exactly the kind of family dinner that I expect one day my future daughters will learn to make after they too become traditional homemakers and family wives — think Norman Rockwell here — and Gloria Steinham (sic) be damned.”
That’s right. A candidate for US Senate addresses women’s rights by saying that women should become traditional homemakers and family wives.
His first campaign ad, which appears as though it should be part of a mockumentary, paints America as a country at war with itself, and Courtland Sykes the conservative firebrand to reach for victory.
Sounds like a parody? Sykes Facebook public profile shows him tending to and meeting with major Missouri Republican figures, like Gov. Greitens and national figures — like Steven Bannon.
The race sets up a Republican primary to challenge Claire McCaskill, and one that could turn around who is a stronger Trump supporter.
If nothing else, it certainly makes the contest interesting.