Who has the stupidest and strangest electoral candidates?

[ritaxis]

My son Frank still lives in Czech Republic for the time being (hopefully not long as his leaving will be because he's gotten work as a doctor in the UK). The last time they had an election there, he sent me along the descriptions of some of the candidates. There was one fellow in his eighties or so who had a photo of himself in his suit and tie embellished with neon mohawk and other punky accessories in an attempt to sell Czech youth on his platform which largely involved returning state properties to the descendants of the nobility. There was a party whose name was a several hundred word Nazi-flavored screed. And the Pirate Party, which is about what you think it is. There was a candidate whose campaign was bought explicitly and unashamedly as a present from her lover.

But I think the US has outdone Czech Republic now. We have a candidate who claims that his opponent is a robot replacement for a man who was executed byu the World Government onstage in front of tv cameras in the Ukraine. He's no threat, but the guy who claims that gay folks are demonically possessed and that he exorcised a lesbian soldier while a military chaplain has won a Republican congressional primary in Colorado.

What candidates (and elected officials) have you noticed lately that give you pause, US or elsewhere?

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

:-)

It's taken a while to sink in, but some decades after the President with Alzenheimer's (or was he a candidate who didn't have obvious dementia then?) who endorsed states rights at the place where Klan 2.0 kicked off, it's pretty hard for candidates to surprise me. These day, I mostly point and giggle.

Well, there's Ted Cruz and John McCain. And let's tip our hats to the all the Bushies, who blame Obama for Bush's war. I think I agree with the Founding Fathers on this: a standing army is more trouble than it's worth.

Well, there's Jordan D. Haskins, a Republican candidate for Michigan state senate, convicted for breaking into people's cars and masturbating. Then there's the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, who posted racist blog comments under a pseudonym.

I'm feeling bloody-minded today.

[bschilli.livejournal.com]

We have a GOP candidate for Congress here in Wisconsin who believes that same-sex marriage will lead to sisters marrying each other.