Oh why not. Why miss such a good opportunity to use the gift that keeps on giving, South Carolina, or as Jon Stewart refers it, the Whoopee Cushion of America. he manages to bring Rep. Ethridge into the mix also.
This guy, Rick Barber, is running for congress in a primary in Alabama. This apparent drunken rant wouldn’t be a bit better if he were running for dog catcher.
He speaks to the ghosts of Washington, Franklin and Sam Adams and plans to overthrow the IRS.
Holy cow. Who needs South Carolina!
From Huffington Post:
Yes! Talkin’ sedition with the Founding Fathers! It doesn’t get any better than that.
“Is it worth digging into the substance here?” asks Dave Weigel, who makes a spirited attempt to do just that. But for all intents and purposes, what Barber is doing is railing against modernity itself, working himself into a fantasia of bellicosity.
Anyway, in the next scene of the story, we’ll have a terrified George Washington exclaiming: “WTF, dude?! Why didn’t you tell us that they have Hellfire missiles, mounted on robot planes, capable of cutting a man in half from 30,000 feet in the air? You do know that we are armed with muskets, right?”
Whoever came up with the notion that we were going to throw the bums out and bring in a new breed apparently hadn’t given much thought to what the new breed was like. New breed…be very afraid. It looks like we are all going to have to talk Emma into making those tinfoil hats again.