Last year republican, Roy Moore barely lost a senate election to former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones in Alabama. Moore didn't start off his campaign with Don Trump's support, but he certainly got it later on.
After the dust settled, Moore tried to blame his election upset on scads of aliens who snuck into Alabama and illegally cast their votes for Jones. Those of us with functioning brains, however knew Moore blew the race, not because of illicit ballots, but because he had been exposed as being a really creepy guy who, if he didn't actually cross the line into pedophilia years ago, he teetered right on the edge of it.
Two of the people who attended Moore's watch party that fateful November evening were a couple from Arkansas who had recently moved to Missouri named, Courtland Sykes and Chanel Rion.
Sykes reasoned that the cause of Moore's loss was, "100% an effort by the Washington establishment against MAGA (Make America Great Again) candidates." His fiancée, Ms. Rion was equally incensed. She was quoted as saying, "This election has proven that if three floozies and a fake headline can steal an election then they're going to use this as a template to go further."
So who gives a shit what these two anonymous cranks think, right?
Actually, we should, because Courtland Sykes is now vying to be the republican nominee for the Missouri U.S. Senate seat held by democrat, Claire McCaskill. He isn't the only one of course. The GOP front runner is the state's Attorney General Josh Hawley, who has the backing of party pros.
That isn't necessarily a good thing though. Last fall in Alabama the republican nabobs backed Luther Strange, the incumbent who had taken Jeff Sessions' spot in the Senate. Strange lost the primary runoff to Moore right before it came out the former judge was banned from the Gadsden Mall years ago for clumsily hitting on under aged girls. Those would be the floozies the future Mrs. Sykes railed about.
In a never ending effort to keep his name in the papers and, no doubt, in order to return a favor, The Huffington Post is now reporting Roy Moore is backing Courtland Sykes and his run for the nomination.
According to Moore, Sykes is, "A man of impeccable character, courage, and Christian faith."
To illustrate his impeccable character and courage, when Mr. Sykes filled out a questionnaire about women's rights he had this to say about activists supporting the movement--they are, "...career obsessed banshees who forego home life and children and the happiness of family to become nail biting, manophobic, hellbent, feminist she-devils."
He's also said they are, "nasty," and "snake filled," and that they are carrying on, "The nonstop feminization campaign against manhood."
Okay, Courtland, but how do you feel about your future family? According to the candidate he wants his daughters, "...to become traditional homemakers and family wives." As far as his wife is concerned, "I expect to come home to a home cooked dinner at six every night."
It is unclear whether he will demand his fiancée to go all June Cleaver by wearing an A-line dress, sensible shoes, and pearls, or not, but the odds are leaning that way.
It is also unclear just how much of a real chance this grotesque rube has to grab the nomination. He has been a full time resident of Missouri for less than a year and his past is cryptic enough the Huff Post's mini poll of five state GOP veterans provided one common answer: "I don't know anything about him."
In fact, the guy is such a mystery and so outrageous it led one political science professor to say about his candidacy, "This might be one of the greatest examples of political performance art I've ever seen." Unfortunately the same professor also said he is 99.9% sure it isn't and Courtland Sykes really is Donald Trump on steroids.
Well, if it is political performance art the production has been ongoing for a while now. Last August, around the same time he moved from Arkansas--where had served as a staffer to republican congressman, Bruce Westerman for a year--he tweeted, "There is nothing more Anti American than the modern day democrat."
Hey, if we've learned anything over the past couple of years, it's we can't take any of these raving loons lightly.
Indeed, in the age of Breitbart, Bannon, Russian Bots, and Donald J. Trump, complete insanity has been turned into a political advantage, rather than what it always has been and should remain--a joke in such bad taste we immediately dismiss it with a shrug and a sneer.
sic vita est
2-26-18
I'm beginning to feel this year's mid terms may prove even more important than we already know. I am convinced we must do something to show the rest of the world we have not lost our senses beyond recovery. It will be much easier to do this if concerned voters show up with a better than 50% voting percentage.
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