Welcome to the 686th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we’re going to be talking about the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brian Kemp, first elected back in the 2010 Tea Party Wave who is also the 2018 Republican candidate to be the next governor of the state. You also may have heard of as that troglodyte who actually ran a campaign ad where he cocked a loaded shotgun at a young man who supposedly wanted to date his daughter to prove what a manly man he is. Yes, woe to us all, it’s this sort of idiocy that stirs something in the hearts of GOP Primary voters, and that led Kemp to make the ad to make up the thirty points he was trailing in polls to his main opponent, Casey Cagle, and not ask themselves, “Wait, did he just point a loaded gun at a child?” and wonder if he’s perhaps a bit too unstable to be given the governor’s mansion. Maybe if the gun-totin’ loon was off message a little, he decided to point his gun in a different direction in his next ad, as he marched around with the same gun boasting about how he’d “round up criminal illegals myself” with his big ol’ pickup truck.
Well, not all problems. He also went full “Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Macho Camacho” and released a third ad where he took a chainsaw to a “stack of regulations” before blowing them up in a giant fiery explosion. (We’re not sure if this will remain symbolic, or if he’s actually nuts enough to try it.)
Kemp’s gamble seemingly paid off, as he closed enough ground to keep Casey Cagle under the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff election, which going into the final stretch, polls showed Kemp and Cagle neck-and-neck. It didn’t help that Cagle was literally caught on tape admitting that the two Republican candidates were focused on “who had the biggest gun, who had the biggest truck, and who could be the craziest”, either. Kemp wore that accusation like a badge of honor, and released the audio hoping that blue-collar people in Georgia would rally behind him because of it.
Kemp, a die-hard anti-immigrant Trump supporter… hmm… maybe this would be a good time to point out that while serving as the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brian Kemp’s brilliant oversight managed to release the names and social security numbers of millions of registered voters, and he repeatedly fought with the Department of Justice regarding the security of Georgia’s voting systems (which were hacked by Russians), and resisted preventing any investigation into the intrusions even after the 2016 elections. His name appears in declassified reports alphabetically just prior to “Jared Kushner”, for some reason. Isn’t that an interesting coincidence… Even more disturbing? He’s also now claiming that our own Department of Justice is “hacking” Georgia election systems, and he wants Donald Trump to personally investigate the matter (this would more than likely be a guy setting up a future claim of “voter fraud” when he loses to someone).
But anyway, the final debate between Brian Kemp and Casey Cagle prior to the runoff was spent with both accusing the other of corruption, and between that and Donald Trump breaking a promise (shocker, I know) not to endorse any candidates in GOP primaries for Governor around the country to go on Twitter and gave a thumbs-up for the bigger loon in Brian Kemp… he was pushed to an unlikely and relatively easy victory.
Kemp will now face off against Stacey Abrams, the first African American candidate for Governor of Georgia, in November, and who may make some history against a man who many consider to be a far weaker candidate (Lord, we hope.) Feel free to go to her website, and donate to her campaign, because she’s amazing, and more importantly, not Brian Kemp.
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