Jackass of the Week - GOP Idiot Edition

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Jake Knotts (R(epugnant) - South Carolina)

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South Carolina Republicans wonder why national liberals and Democrats tar residents and the GOP in the South as a bunch of backward, racist rednecks. Jake Knotts, a state legislator, calling the party's front runner for governor in the Palmetto State a "raghead" on the radio show Pub Politics certainly doesn't help reverse those images with voters. Also, it's been three days now since the outrageous, bigoted comment - and others about Nikki Haley that followed - has been reported in the media. Could you other GOP officials and party big-wigs in the state move any slower to the microphones to condemn the outlandish statements uttered by this asshat? Normal citizens of South Carolina and your run-of-the-mill Democrats in the North and West Coast now have very little reason to believe the region is ethnically and racially comfortable living in the post-Civil Rights era (And how can a good conservative of conscience argue otherwise right now with this latest flap?) . Feel free to attempt to assuage them of that incorrect (?) notion by stepping up to the plate, S.C. Republicans. It doesn't take a lot of effort. The silence right now is deafening.
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For a summary version of the events that unfolded during the latter part of this past week, here's how The Columbia Free Times covered the controversy:

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With a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face outside a Columbia bar, Republican S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts called Lexington Rep. Nikki Haley, an Indian-American Republican woman running for governor, a “raghead” several times while explaining how he believed she was hiding her true religion from voters.

She’s a f#!king raghead,” Knotts said.
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He later clarified his statement. He did not mean to use the F-word.
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Knotts says he believed Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it.
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“We got a raghead in Washington; we don’t need one in South Carolina,” Knotts said more than once. “She’s a raghead that’s ashamed of her religion trying to hide it behind being Methodist for political reasons.”

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Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban.

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“We’re at war over there,” Knotts said.

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Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.”
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You stay classy, South Carolina.

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Editorial comment: It appears, just by looking at his picture, that Mr. Knotts has been regularly stuffing his face with retard sandwiches (extra mayo) for months now. If AZDB were blowing out his birthday candles today, he would wish, for the sake of the South Carolina GOP (and humanity in general), that Knotts would stumble & fall in front of the nearest Charleston choo choo (by pure accident, of course). Yours truly won't insult readers' intelligence by pointing out the specific asinine comments he chose to utter on record. Just treat the exercise like a newspaper word-search puzzle ("Ah hah! Found another one right here, Mildred!"). Y'all are smart enough without my help. Points in his favor though for distancing himself from the use of the F-word. For a minute there one would have thought Mr. Knotts hadn't realized just how grotesque his language was. Be glad he didn't intend to be vulgar or anything.

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For the record, Mr. Knotts' candidate of choice in the governor's race is Mr. Andre Bauer, who is currently bringing up the rear in the latest polls and needs a minor miracle to reach 2nd place and get to a runoff (and win a set of steak knives). First place in all the polls? Nikki Haley - who has been like Teflon the last two weeks after charges of having affairs on separate occasions with, shall we say, less than credible individuals. The recent comments by "Snake" Jake Knotts may just earn Haley enough sympathy votes to help her avoid a runoff entirely. This coming Tuesday, primary day, will be the first measure of how the South Carolina electorate reacts to smears against Mrs. Haley.
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This past week Jake Knotts has managed to say things, specifically and in total, stupider than any Democrat could dare dream. Comments so outlandish that even Joe Biden, no stranger to controversial remarks about people of East Indian ethnicity, had to shake his head in embarrassment. He and his inexcusable behavior also made history by making him the first Republican Jackass of the Week.

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- AZDB