In 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” presented our original profile of the one-term U.S. House Representative for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, Jason Lewis, who did manage to win office in 2016 over Democrat Angie Craig by about 6,000 votes, to replaces former House Rep. John Kline in Congress. This is unfortunate, as we have discussed, Lewis was most famous for being a radically conservative radio talk show host in Minnesota, who famously quit live on air right after promoting his own Ayn Rand-inspired libertarian website that has interesting topics like “exposing the global warming hoax,” promoting a “Free Market Education,” and championing states’ rights. Lewis just up and walked off the job in about the most unprofessional manner possible.
No matter how good the results have been for Governor Mark Dayton in Minnesota as the state has come to boom under Democrats’ policies, Lewis has refused to give an iota of credit to them for it, clinging to ideology before any reason. And that’s putting it mildly…
Let’s just recap some of the highlights from Jason Lewis’ time on air… back on November 9th, 2012, he was beside himself about President Obama having won a second term. he reacted to the election loss of Mitt Romney by looking at the racial demographics of it… and lamenting, how white people were committing “cultural suicide” and “political suicide” with their failure to procreate at the same level as Hispanics. “I don’t want to make a racial thing out of this. I’m just stating a fact.” Two days later on November 11th, 2012, Lewis was still looking at demographics that the Republicans lost, this time female voters, and he had this rant:
”I never thought in my lifetime where’d you have so many single, or I should say, yeah, single women who would vote on the issue of somebody else buying their diaphragm. This is a country in crisis. Those women are ignorant in, I mean, the most generic way. I don’t mean that to be a pejorative. They are simply ignorant of the important issues in life. Somebody’s got to educate them. There’s something about young, single women where they’re behaving like Stepford wives. They walk in lockstep—is that really the most important thing to a 25-year old unmarried woman—uh, getting me to pay for her pills? Seriously?! Is that what we’ve been reduced to? You can be bought off for that? You’ve got a vast majority of young single women who couldn’t explain to you what GDP means. You know what they care about? They care about abortion. They care about abortion and gay marriage. They care about The View. They are non-thinking.”
Silly idiot ladies casting a vote without even knowing what they’re thinking, except they can get birth control easier… am I right, fellas?
Yeah, Lewis is that terrible, and then some. How much of an ***hole does someone have to be to pitch-hit for Rush Limbaugh? Because Lewis got to do that back in in 2008, where he compared taxing the rich to “slavery”, and in 2009 he decided to start demonizing victims of Hurricane Katrina were “a bunch of whiners”. He’s used the Supreme Court’s previous rulings on slavery as well when discussing their rulings on same sex marriage, and even since leaving talk radio, has spoken about the income disparity between whites and African Americans in less than endearing ways, saying, “the median income for blacks in America would make them rich in most African nations.”
Of course, there are two phrases we’ve seen in discussing Jason Lewis’ opinions that seem to have a common thread. What do you think of when you think of when you see “states’ rights”, and “slavery”? It might be that you just thought of the Civil War, and guess what? Lewis has some opinions on that. He once suggested a Constitutional amendment to allow states the right to secede from the union, and also questions why the Civil War needed to be fought, arguing that it was fought over “states’ rights” and not slavery, at all (which is false). And we all know how important defending the Confederacy is to voters way north of the Mason-Dixon line in Minnesota, right?
Lewis flat out refused to hold a town hall and explain his vote for Trumpcare or say even his vote to prevent federal funding to go to his own state to fund a light rail project in Minnesota and his constituents responded by protesting outside his actual home. It seems Jason Lewis doesn’t like siege tactics on his homestead very much, and would rather put the screws to the citizenry without having to answer for it.
Prior to Jason Lewis’ rematch in 2018 against Angie Craig… even more audio recordings have emerged of him from his days in talk radio, including even more thoughts on race, which amount to bigoted-ass falsehoods:
“There’s a cultural problem in the African-American community that is leading to this. The entitlement mentality. You’re a victim. It’s OK to hate women, beat up women. It’s OK to hate gays. All this, we’re just sort of feeding this to people who are very lost because of the breakdown of society to begin with.
What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do. A hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it.” “You simply can’t say the same thing about other groups. But when there is a festival, a gathering, call it what you will — June ninth, Juneteenth or urban weekend in Miami Beach or Myrtle Beach and Indianapolis. When there is a predominantly black festival, there’s trouble.” “The violent racial crime that’s going on, and most of it black on white, but the media choose to ignore that as well. Now, no one can discount the horrible legacy of slavery. No one can discount the sin of America’s past — but the chances today, and I want to be clear about this, I know it’s provocative, but I want to be clear — the chances today of a gang of KKK members beating up a black kid are remote compared to the opposite. A gang of black on white crime.”
But that’s not all, audio also was uncovered where Jason Lewis gave his thoughts about Rush Limbaugh’s sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke, and big surprise, he’s an ***hole who had Rush’s back, and went on an unprompted sexist tirade:
“Can we call anybody a slut? But it used to be that women were held to a little bit of a higher standard. We required modesty from women. Now, are we beyond those days where a woman can behave as a slut, but you can’t call her a slut?
Madonna dresses up in these sorts of prostitute-like outfits on stage, and she goes there and she sings and she shows half of her body. What did we call those people?”
And that had a lot to do with why Jason Lewis was bounced from office, only getting 47% of the vote against Angie Craig with the Blue Wave at her back. We’re hoping we don’t have to profile him again this time next year… because he’s hinting he might try and take his seat back from Congresswoman Craig, or even more unbelievably, he might want to take a crack at unseating Minnesota Senator Tina Smith. Frankly, we would just rather he went away, and wherever “away” is, that he stays there.
One Year Ago, August 17th, 2018: Jason Lewis (MN)… 2018 Update
One Year Ago, August 17th, 2017: Jason Lewis (MN)… 2017 Update
Two Years Ago, August 17th, 2016: Jason Lewis (MN)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, August 17th, 2015: Paul Broun (GA)… 2015 Update
Four Years Ago, August 17th, 2014: Paul Broun (GA)… Original Profile