One of our Senators here in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss, is retiring. The Democrats have a fairly settled race with Michele Nunn, daughter of Sam Nunn a former Senator from Georgia, the only one who is polling more than 15%. There was a suggestion that since Georgia has open primaries that Democrats should cross over and vote in the Republican primary for the craziest candidate running for the Republican nomination for the empty Senate seat. The trouble is, as you would expect, deciding which one is the craziest.
Paul Broun
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell.” In addition, Broun also believes that the world is less than 9000 years old and was created in six literal days. In response to these remarks, coupled with Broun being on the House Science Committee, libertarian radio talk show host Neil Boortz spearheaded a campaign to run the English naturalist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin against Broun, with the intention of drawing attention to these comments from the scientific community and having Broun removed from his post on the House Science Committee.
Jack Kingston
In a December 14, 2013 address to the Jackson County Republican Party, Kingston, who is on the House Agricultural Committee which oversees the federal school lunch program for the underprivileged, proposed that children who participate in the program be required "...to sweep the floor in the cafeteria" to promote a work ethic and "instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch."
Phil Gingrey
Stephen Colbert interviewed Congressman Gingrey on his Better Know a District segment. Colbert asked, "The war in Iraq. Great War — or the greatest war?" Gingrey responded that it may be the greatest war. Colbert asked Gingrey if he was a "Georgia peach" and Gingrey responded in the affirmative.
In June of 2013, Gingrey attracted national attention when in the course of a speech defending his continued support of the Defense of Marriage Act he argued on the floor of the House that schools should hold special classes at a grade school level to teach children about traditional gender roles. "... have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important. This is what a father does that is maybe a little different, maybe a little bit better than the talents that a mom has in a certain area. And the same thing for the young girls, that, you know, this is what a mom does, and this is what is important from the standpoint of that union which we call marriage."
In an appearance before the Smyrna Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce on January 10, 2013, Gingrey, an OB-GYN since 1975, said former Republican Rep. Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said women's bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Of Akin, Gingrey said, "he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman's body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur.
Karen Handel
In April 2011, Handel was appointed senior vice president of public policy at breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure ("Komen"). In this position she was responsible for leading the organization’s federal and state advocacy efforts, including management of Advocacy Alliance.[25]
At the end of January 2012, Komen stated it would cut ties with the women's health organization Planned Parenthood.[26] The organization attributed the decision to a newly adopted policy not to fund organizations under investigation by a government agency. The House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in September 2011 initiated an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s usage of federal funds which are precluded (by the Hyde Amendment) from financing the organization's abortion services.[27]
Media reports postulated that Handel—who had advocated defunding Planned Parenthood in her gubernatorial campaign—and pressure from anti-abortion groups played major roles in this move.[28] On February 2, 2012, Jeffrey Goldberg reported in The Atlantic that "three sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process told me that the rule was adopted in order to create an excuse to cut-off Planned Parenthood." Goldberg further reported that his sources indicated "the decision to create a rule that would cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to these sources, was driven by the organization's new senior vice-president for public policy, Karen Handel, a former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia who is staunchly anti-abortion and who has said that since she is 'pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood'".[29] On February 5, 2012 The Huffington Post reported that "emails between Komen leadership... confirm Handel's sole 'authority' in crafting and implementing the Planned Parenthood policy... Handel submitted the new grant criteria to Komen leadership in November and the board approved it in December, at which point Komen's top public health official resigned "on the spot."[30] The firestorm which developed when the news broke out led to a reversal of Komen's decision.
On February 7, 2012, Handel resigned from Komen.
Everything above is from Wikipedia.
(Sorry, we don't have a head-explode one.)
