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Someone sent me a link to this godawful campaign website for a guy named George Hutchins, who is running for Congress in North Carolina. This site makes some MySpace pages look understated by comparison. And true to wingnut form, it's written like it was scrawled on the back of a Piggly Wiggly bag in crayon, with randomly capitalized words and punctuation that would make an English teacher have a heart attack. Like this:
"In addition to MASS VOTING FRAUD, it was these same RINO'S, and same Fence-Riders, which caused the Republicans to lose big during the 2008 elections, in both, North Carolina, and Nationwide."
And he seems to want to turn back the clock to before the civil rights era:
To stop the OBAMA-NATION Socialists in Washington DC, we must first go to the root of the POISON TREE, which created all them.This POISON TREE, is the "Social Engineering" located within the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act, to the U.S. Constitution.
The ONLY REASON, the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act passed, was due the fact, Lyndon B. JOHNSON, had many political debts owed to him, in 1964.
=> During 1964, if one did NOT repay their political debts, when they were called due, such a politician's political career was over.
=> Lyndon B. JOHNSON called all his debts in 1964.
To DEFEAT OBAMA-NATION, we must take a close look at all of the "Social Engineering" contained in the so called 1964 Civil Rights Act, and take legal steps to remove this "Social Engineering" contained in the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act.
"Social Engineering," includes FORCED DIVERSITY, FORCED RACIAL INTEGRATION, Affirmative Action Quotas Based on Race, and all Privileges Based on Race, which are influenced by the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act to the U.S. Constitution.
We must use all of our resources NOW, to prevent ALL future U.S. Generations from suffering under the same bondage which were forced upon all of us, due to the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Uh, George...the Civil Rights Act did not amend the Constitution. It was statutory law only. And it didn't put you in bondage, for crying out loud.
"America was Founded upon the Teachings of the Christian Bible, and the Teachings of the Jewish Torah, allowing Voluntary Tolerance for all Minorities."
Charming. And he has some interesting historical misconceptions:
"All major civilizations, since the beginning of recorded time, have fallen into DECLINE, and DECAY, once the majority citizens of each society, had ACCEPTED GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, to be normal standards of conduct, in open public places.""It is uncertain, whether GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL ACCEPTANCE was the cause of the DECLINE, or if GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL ACCEPTANCE was a symptom of the DECLINE."
"The British Empire FELL by 1946, following the Second World War, were at this time, GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became ACCEPTED as normal public behavior, by most British citizens."
=>"Before 1946, the British Empire Ruled the World, dictating MOST global economic markets, and had the World's Strongest Military, until following the end of World War Two. {1939-1945}"
"The German Weimar Republic, {1919-1933}, a Democratic Government, which existed in Germany, following World War One, [1914-1918], was very tolerant, and ACCEPTED GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT, in Germany, as normal public behavior."
=>"Germany, during the time of Weimar Republic, {1919-1933}, became so CHAOTIC, Adolf Hitler was able to march in, SUSPENDING many German Legal Civil Liberties, just in one possible route, to restore safe public order, in Germany, by putting down the Weimar Republic, resulting in countless public freedom abuses in Germany, after the FALL of the Weimar Republic, under Adolf Hitler."
"The Greek Empire FELL to the Romans, once public GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became ACCEPTED, as normal public behavior, by most Greeks."
"By 400 A.D., 400 years after the birth of Christ, GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became, ACCEPTED as normal public behavior, among most Roman Citizens."
=>"By 400 A.D., The Roman Empire was FALLING apart, and Ebbing in all Roman areas."
"California, during the 1950's, 1960's, and early 1970's, was the BEST place on EARTH to be."
"By the YEAR 2000, SAN FRANCISCO GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became, ACCEPTED as normal public behavior, among Most California Residents."
=>"Since the YEAR 2000, California has been going down the drain, and California is NOW NOT such a GREAT place to be."
Wow.
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Thanks for the heads up ... now I know where to send the check.
Posted by: Mike H | November 3, 2009 10:53 AM
Describing beyond, throughout the 10 year decade of the 1990's, which spans, {1989 - 1999}, in addition to, well into the NEW CENTURY, beyond the year 2000, {2004 - 2007}, in addition to required U.S. Military Service, I have made many more Great private civilian resident travels overseas, for extended periods of time, which were a great learning adventure.
While on extended private overseas residents travels, throughout key parts of the world, since the year 1989, I have noticed clearly, how SOCIALISM, Legalized Marijuana use, and open public tolerance, for GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL misconduct, has harmed all nations, influenced by the English speaking world, to include GERMANY.
There are many Great Wonders to see overseas, especially in Europe, which are part of our American Heritage; but, it is a shame to go to England, Scotland, Holland, and even Germany, to see a type of moral decay, which would DISGUST most REAL CONSERVATIVES, where we MUST FIGHT to NOT go this foul direction, in America.
Yeah, it's terrible living in Europe. Healthcare even if you can't pay for it. Awful. We can't go in that foul direction. As for Scotland? It's a hotbed of sinful activity.
He has used a lifetime's worth of commas. I, thought, I, was, bad.
Posted by: Doreen Taylor (The Peaceful Fox) | November 3, 2009 10:57 AM
I note from his web site (thanks for the headache, by the way), that he is proud to support Fox News.
'nuff said.
One would hope that he stands no chance of being elected, but in this country one really has to wonder...
Posted by: Ray M | November 3, 2009 10:58 AM
I was laughing along with everyone else until I realized, oh SHIT, that's my district. Thanks for the heads-up.
Posted by: Will E. | November 3, 2009 11:01 AM
The ability to string seemingly random words together is strong in this one. Neither history nor English are his forte. He doesn't seem to understand US government all that well either. Politics at any level above dogcatcher should be unattainable. Oh, wait, it's North Carolina...
Posted by: MikeMa | November 3, 2009 11:01 AM
Mr. Hutchins posts a comment in his own forum apologizing to the fictional characters of the old TV comedy series Sanford & Son*.
His 'rationale' for his so-called apology? Because they [these fictional TV characters] are "better than the entire Barack Hussein Obama gang!!!"
* 1970s series featuring a primarily African-American cast.
Posted by: Michael Heath | November 3, 2009 11:04 AM
Wow, this guy has a real hard-on for lesbians.
I love the way he sprinkles the names of famous people around his page, almost as if they endorsed him: Davy Cockett, John Wyane, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jessie Helms, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan...
Better yet, you’ve got to love this dressing down from the state Chairman his own party.
Posted by: Abby Normal | November 3, 2009 11:23 AM
Ow. That website is painful.
He's incidentally also wrong about Great Britain and the acceptance of gays. Alan Turing was convicted for being gay in 1952 for example and prosecutions for sodomy continued in England to about 1970 or so (I don't know about the rest of the United Kingdom but certainly prosecutions occurred well after 1946).
Also, what Bible and Torah is this guy reading that he thinks these are documents that promote toleration (I think he means Tanach not Torah here but that's a separate issue...)
Posted by: Joshua Zelinsky | November 3, 2009 11:23 AM
*2 seconds later*
Jesus - my eyes. It's the 1994 internet all over again.
That said - I do love that there internet. Before all these loonies would have had their own corner to cause havoc in. Now they instantly get pushed up to a national (or in this case international) stage for righteous ridicule!
Posted by: David Durant | November 3, 2009 11:24 AM
Great Scott! Even being forewarned doesn't properly prepare you for the true awfulness of that site.
Posted by: tacitus | November 3, 2009 11:27 AM
I love the picture of Teddy Roosevelt with the words "Last US President in Direct Combat" pasted over it. John Kennedy might take exception to that.
Posted by: carlsonjok | November 3, 2009 11:30 AM
I like how at the bottom of his webpage he has put up endorsements from Jesse Helms, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.
Posted by: william e emba | November 3, 2009 11:33 AM
I couldn't help but notice that things that he considers "bad" are in green lettering (e.g., DAVID PIERCE, "OBAMA-NATION", CRIME, Lyndon B. JOHNSON, etc.). However, he's got "Marine Corps" and "1991 IRAQ-Kuwait War" in green lettering, too. Why does he hate the troops? (Especially since he seems to have served in both the US Army and US Marine Corps... unless the USMC George Hutchins is different than the USArmy George Hutchins.)
And why the hate against July 5, 2008? And "Tear down this wall"?
Posted by: Umlud | November 3, 2009 11:35 AM
I really don't understand how wingnuts find the time to change the font color of every third or fourth word. Is there a special "crazy manifesto" font that does that for them?
Posted by: Chris | November 3, 2009 11:36 AM
Re carlsonjok
So would George H. W. Bush who left Yale and volunteered for the naval air forces as a fighter pilot after Pearl Harbor. Subsequently, he was shot down by enemy action.
Posted by: SLC | November 3, 2009 11:41 AM
Yeah, but JFK was in the Navy (as was "Lyndon B. JOHNSON"), and Hutchins is a proud USArmy veteran. ...or is that USMC veteran? Either way, I'm sure that is what he's referring to. And Gerald Ford was also Navy, so that doesn't likely count either. Carter was also a Navy guy, but never served in combat ("Direct" or otherwise), so he doesn't count either.
Reagan? Sure, he was in the USArmy, but he never saw "Direct Combat". (Plus, Reagan was in the US Air Corps... So he was actually an early Air Force guy; not "true Army".)
But what about Ike? (Or does being Commanding General in Europe not count as "Direct Combat"?)
Posted by: mercurianferret | November 3, 2009 11:44 AM
SLC
Bush the younger should have seen some action too except he ducked.
Posted by: MikeMa | November 3, 2009 11:50 AM
Talk about eye smashing. This yabo is running in my district against David Price. I don't think Price is very worried.
Posted by: The Other Lance | November 3, 2009 12:03 PM
"The British Empire FELL by 1946, following the Second World War, were at this time, GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became ACCEPTED as normal public behavior, by most British citizens."
Speaking as a British subject* (who does ACCEPT GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR) I wouldn't say that it is accepted as normal public behavior even now, let alone 60 years ago. Gay men and women are generally tolerated rather than accepted.
*We're subjects of Her Maj. rather than citizens a point which I would like to try and do something about.
Posted by: JohnM55 | November 3, 2009 12:09 PM
Truman saw combat too.
Posted by: Savagemutt | November 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Just doing a check on Wikipedia to see how much further off-base Hutchins is with his "last President to see Direct Combat" claim. Presidents after Teddy:
* Taft: Secretary of War (no military career, though)
* Wilson: No military service.
* Harding: No military service.
* Coolidge: No military service.
* Hoover: No military service.
* Roosevelt: No military service.
* Truman: USArmy Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 60th Brigade, 35th Infantry Division. Saw action in WWI.
* Eisenhower: USArmy Commanding General, European Theater of Operations, WWII (only 5-star general to become POTUS).
* Kennedy: USNavy, Commanding Officer of Motor Torpedo Boat 109. Saw action in WWII.
* Johnson: USNavy, 22nd Bomb Group. Saw action in WWII.
* Ford: USNavy, assistant navigator, Athletic Officer, and antiaircraft battery officer on board the USS Monterey. Saw action in WWII.
* Nixon: USNavy. Never saw combat.
* Carter: USNavy. Never saw combat.
* Reagan: USArmy. Never saw combat.
* Bush: USNavy, Torpedo Squadron (VT-51). Saw combat in WWII.
* Clinton: No military service.
* Bush: No military service (outside Texas ANG).
* Obama: No military service.
So... no Presidents in "direct combat" since Teddy Roosevelt? I don't think so. But anyway, why write that down? I mean, the guy's not running for President! Couldn't he find photos of other politicians who were in the military (some more recently than him)?
Posted by: mercurianferret | November 3, 2009 12:16 PM
@RayM, #3: No chance. NC-4 is pretty solidly Democratic (based around Durham-Chapel Hill) and incumbent David Price is pretty well entrenched.
@Abby Normal, #7: Wow. Fetzer's nuts, too - you've gotta be pretty far out there to earn his disgust.
Posted by: Jeff | November 3, 2009 12:19 PM
Mr. Hutchins posts a comment in his own forum apologizing to the fictional characters of the old TV comedy series Sanford & Son*.
What, not "Amos & Andy?"
mercurianferret@16: Nothing against Ike, but technically, he was never in direct combat, as in tactical level, they're-shooting-at-me, close-contact-with-the-enemy combat. If you enjoy watching an historian tie himself in knots, read Ambrose's book on D-Day when he is comparing Eisenhower and Rommel.
Posted by: Shay | November 3, 2009 12:20 PM
This POISON TREE, is the "Social Engineering" located within the so-called 1964 Civil Rights Act, to the U.S. Constitution.
Anybody who doesn't know the difference between a statute and a constitutional amendment shouldn't be running for Congress.
Sorry--"shouldn't, Be running FOR, Congress."
Posted by: Solly Hofman | November 3, 2009 12:24 PM
WT,Fs up with all the comma's, and misuse's of apostrophe's? I mean the use's of CAPITAL'S is, ANNOYING, enough but WTF? Doesnt this guy know, how to use punctuation, correctly?
(I'm thankful that he hasn't figured out how to add flashing fonts and seizure-inducing strobe effects to his page... but if they are there, then I'm thankful that my browser blocked them.)
Posted by: Umlud | November 3, 2009 12:25 PM
Wow, this guy has a real hard-on for lesbians.
Hey, what self-respecting straight dude doesn't.
Posted by: Solly Hofman | November 3, 2009 12:27 PM
I saw the VFW badge and thought, "What's that? Veterans For War?"
The random caps remind me of FBI Regional Chief GORDON COLE!!!!! Any chance he's behind this?
Posted by: KristinMH | November 3, 2009 12:33 PM
Last night, Richard Wolfe was right to point out that moderate Republicans (AKA: RINOs) have been slowly pushed out of the party for years. But now, the GOP's crazy villagers are going after them with torches and pitchforks a la Salem, Mass, circa 1692.
It's insane. In a desperate bid to find its own identity, the fringes of the Republican Party are destroying the whole. And when the ashes finally settle, the RNC will have imbeciles like Glenn Beck and the teabaggers to thank for it.
Posted by: CHV | November 3, 2009 12:34 PM
If Fred Sanford could see this, he'd die of a heart attack.
Posted by: Steve Morrison | November 3, 2009 12:40 PM
George Hutchins is the leader of the white supremacist National Independents Movement (NIM) which maintains a similarly ghastly website at nimcrown.us. They're so far beyond a joke other white supremacists refuse to associate with them.
Posted by: NIMBuster | November 3, 2009 12:41 PM
Among all the other weirdness: "Windor Castle, England. Headquarters of the British Government during the time of: Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh, North Carolina is named after an English knight, Sir Walter Raleigh".
1. Why mention that twice, on top of the largest pix on the page?
2. British government? There was no country of "Britain" at the time, and even after James (who was gay) inherited the English throne the Scots maintained their own government.
3. Yeah, it was named after a knight. One was was executed for almost getting the country into a war with Spain. Oh, wait...illegal military adventures...role model for neocons?
Posted by: Ian | November 3, 2009 12:50 PM
The random caps remind me of FBI Regional Chief GORDON COLE!!!!! Any chance he's behind this?
THAT WOULD BE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN--AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, I'M STRICTLY NON-PARTISAN IN MATTERS RELATED TO ELECTIONS TO FEDERAL OFFICE!!! WHAT'S MORE, IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT I HAVE THE HEARING OF STONEHENGE--I WOULD NEVER RISK DAMAGING MY EYESIGHT BY CREATING SOMETHING THIS GARISH!!!
I TAKE FURTHER EXCEPTION TO THE NOTION THAT I RANDOMLY CAPITALIZE!!! ACROSS-THE-BOARD CAPITALIZATION ISN'T RANDOM!!!
Posted by: FBI Regional Bureau Chief GORDON COLE!!! | November 3, 2009 12:50 PM
As a potential RINO who ran far, far away from the party upon seeing the up-and-coming leadership, I can say that the reason the GOP suffered the way it did in the last eight years has everything to do with the way it set itself up. Building a dependency on the religious right frightened away a lot of the secular conservatives. One of the reasons why I don't see myself voting for a Republican Presidential candidate until I'm in my 30s, at least.
Also, I happen to think California is a fine place to live. San Francisco is pretty nice, too. I don't mind getting hit on periodically by gay men when I go there to visit a few of my friends that live there, it's a nice confidence builder. And California may be in a budget crunch right now, but we'll recover. We're still an economic powerhouse, and I'm pretty proud of my state.
And, unfortunately, we're not that tolerant of homosexuality (at least, not as tolerant as I would like to be). See Prop 8.
Posted by: JStein | November 3, 2009 12:52 PM
Posted by: llewelly | November 3, 2009 12:56 PM
Also, I happen to think California is a fine place to live. San Francisco is pretty nice, too.
BEING HOLED UP IN BEND,OREGON ALL THE TIME, I MAY BE A BIT OUT OF TOUCH WITH MY NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH, BUT ALL THE RUMORS I'VE HEARD SUGGEST SAN FRANCISCO'S *PART* OF CALIFORNIA!!! IS THERE SOME BAY-AREA SECESSION MOVEMENT I NEED TO BE BRIEFED ON???!!!
Posted by: FBI Regional Bureau Chief GORDON COLE!!! | November 3, 2009 12:57 PM
It's not so much the random capitalization, but the random color changes in the text using a horribly limited palette:
...OW, my retinas.
Posted by: abb3w | November 3, 2009 12:59 PM
My eyes! My eyes! Thanks Ed, I won't be able to drive for the rest of the day now!
Posted by: Freedonian | November 3, 2009 1:00 PM
Ed, I live in Apex in NC's 4th district, and I think you can rest assured when I tell you that this yahoo has NO chance (in case you couldn't glean that already from the content of his "campaign" website).
Posted by: Will | November 3, 2009 1:00 PM
I guess he is OK with FEMALE homosexuality though... doesn't seem to be raving about that!
bet he watches porn with girl on girl action.
Posted by: Kevin (NYC) | November 3, 2009 1:04 PM
It's obvious to me this guy never recovered from War Hero John Kerry not getting elected. Oh, and of course the full frontal lobotamy.
Posted by: J-Dog | November 3, 2009 1:09 PM
"The British Empire FELL by 1946, following the Second World War, were at this time, GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became ACCEPTED as normal public behavior, by most British citizens."
Yeah, that big war the British had to fight, much of it in their own airspace, had nothing to do with the loss of their Empire. What was that war called again? You know, the one that ended the year before...? (Oh, and IIRC, the British didn't lose India, Pakistan and the Middle East until 1948. This guy's about as consistently wrong as Dick Cheney.)
"The Greek Empire FELL to the Romans, once public GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR, became ACCEPTED, as normal public behavior, by most Greeks."
Um..."GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR" was "ACCEPTED" the whole time, when they were the predominant naval, scientific and cultural power in the Agean. I guess that's why all good Christians have to reject and ignore everything they've contributed to Western Civilization, right?
=>"Germany, during the time of Weimar Republic, {1919-1933}, became so CHAOTIC, Adolf Hitler was able to march in, SUSPENDING many German Legal Civil Liberties, just in one possible route, to restore safe public order, in Germany, by putting down the Weimar Republic, resulting in countless public freedom abuses in Germany, after the FALL of the Weimar Republic, under Adolf Hitler."
...with, I must add, the full-throated (and empty-headed) support of insane bigots like Hutchins. Funny, he doesn't try to compare the damage done by gays to the damage done by gay-bashers.
=>"Since the YEAR 2000, California has been going down the drain, and California is NOW NOT such a GREAT place to be."
Yeah, Republican refusal to raise revenue to fund that state's government has nothing to do with California's current state. This item shows Right-wing scapegoating at its most obvious: when faced with the damage his fellow wingnuts have done to a healthy and advanced state, this wingnut hides from reality by blaming gays for the damage done.
And yes, he does have a serious hangup about gays, as well as lesbians. He probably has serious hangups about straight men and women as well.
PS: Hi, Doreen, long time no see. I haven't been posting on LJ because my current employer's nanny-ware blocks access to "social networking" sites.
Posted by: Raging Bee | November 3, 2009 1:25 PM
Is there a circa-1998 template for crazytown websites? The font/color changes/random pictures are universal proclamations that the content will be batfreaking insane. You could put it in Russian or ancient Greek, and we could still recognize it for what it is....
Posted by: RobC | November 3, 2009 1:38 PM
1. I haven't checked every link, but Hutchins seems more obsessed with "GAY MALE HOMOSEXUALS" (always in all-cap pinkish-purple type) than lesbians. In particular, most of his "Culture War" page is about how GAY MALE HOMOSEXUALS have brought down civilization after civilization. (He also refers to the Republican former incumbent as WILLIAM "B.J." LAWSON, as in "Is WILLIAM "B.J." LAWSON a GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL, in spite of being married with children?" Lawson apparently goes by the nickname "BJ"--a fact that Hutchins seems to find completely riveting.)
My guess is: Closet case.
2. In Hutchins' defense, we really should have a rule that all candidates have to put together their own Web sites. Judging by this one, it absolutely lays their intelligence and obsessions out for display.
Posted by: Molly, NYC | November 3, 2009 1:45 PM
This is my district. It includes Chapel Hill, NC, the place Jessie Helms once wanted to fence in because it was a zoo. David Price has been our representative since I was in grade school. He has no chance, believe me. But he does provide some nice comic relief.
Posted by: Shannon | November 3, 2009 1:50 PM
If you think that's bad... you ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: Jonathan Rothwell | November 3, 2009 1:53 PM
Re shay
I may be wrong about this but I seem to recall that President Eisenhower did see combat in WW1 as a low ranking infantry officer. By the way, the comparison of Eisenhower and Rommel is not altogether fair as Rommel was not the overall commander in France at the time of Operation Overlord. Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt was the overall commander in France. In fact, there was a dispute between the two men as to the deployment of the German defenses. Rommel thought that they should be deployed close to the beaches to attack the invading troops while they were still in the water. von Rundstedt thought that they should be deployed out of range of naval gunfire and be in a position to counterattack after the landing when the naval gunfire was stopped to avoid friendly fire casualties.
Re Hutchins
Mr. Hutchins claim that Great Britains' decline began after WW 2 is complete horsepucky. The decline of Great Britain began at the end of the 19th century when its industrial output was surpassed by Germany. As a for instance, the British Navy on which the defense of Great Britain rested was technologically inferior to the German fleet, particularly with regards to gunnery and ship protection; in addition, the British shells which were fired at Jutland were defective and broke up instead of penetrating when impacting at any angle not close to 90 degrees.
Posted by: SLC | November 3, 2009 1:58 PM
I suppose we'd be better off accepting straight male homosexual behavior then. Maybe that's what he secretly wants. His redundancy shows some kind of weird obsession.
Posted by: catgirl | November 3, 2009 2:00 PM
Presumably phlegmatic male homosexual behavior is OK with him.
Posted by: eric | November 3, 2009 2:04 PM
Ed:
Worst.Campaign.Website.Ever.?
Stop.Fucking.Helping.Them.!
Posted by: democommie | November 3, 2009 2:11 PM
WTF? Gay sex was illegal until 1967, and we still have to deal with more than our fair share of crap from a big percentage of those british citizens. This guy is not just crazy, he's a fecking idiot.
Posted by: Ramel | November 3, 2009 2:13 PM
"I love the picture of Teddy Roosevelt with the words "Last US President in Direct Combat" pasted over it. John Kennedy might take exception to that"
or Harry Truman or George H.W. Bush
Posted by: Ericb | November 3, 2009 2:38 PM
Oh, humans. Why must you be so fucking wacky? Especially the right-wingers?
Posted by: Katharine | November 3, 2009 2:39 PM
Hutchins seems to be a living definition of fanatic: A person who unconsciously overcompensates for a secret doubt. Just like Fred Phelps. Methinks they doth protest too much.
Posted by: athena | November 3, 2009 2:54 PM
The ability to string seemingly random words together is strong in this one. Neither history nor English are his forte. He doesn't seem to understand US government all that well either. Politics at any level above dogcatcher should be unattainable.
In other words, he's an ideal Republican candidate.
Posted by: Sadie Morrison | November 3, 2009 3:11 PM
Jeff @ 22:
I first read that as an exclamation, like "Zeus's beard," or "Lords of Light!"
I think I'm going to start using it that way. Fetzer's nuts, that's one crazy web site.
Posted by: Abby Normal | November 3, 2009 3:18 PM
Great Find, ED BRAYTON. You have A KNACK for finding out about the REALLY CRAZY Wing Nuts.
Posted by: TheDude | November 3, 2009 3:30 PM
"Germany, during the time of Weimar Republic, {1919-1933}, became so CHAOTIC, Adolf Hitler was able to march in, SUSPENDING many German Legal Civil Liberties, just in one possible route, to restore safe public order, in Germany, by putting down the Weimar Republic, resulting in countless public freedom abuses in Germany, after the FALL of the Weimar Republic, under Adolf Hitler."
Wow, it's rare that you see someone lose on both sides of Godwin's Law.
Posted by: dreikin | November 3, 2009 3:36 PM
I'm currently trying to list in my head empires that fell that didn't so much openly accept GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR. Let's see...
Holy Roman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Mongol Empire
Imperial/Shogunate Japan
Chinese Empire (I'm pretty sure that most of the dynasties weren't fans. Could be wrong, though, it's been a while since my Asian History class...)
Persian Empire (fell to those boy-loving Greeks...)
Egyptian Empire (fell to those boy-loving Greeks. Hadrian's gay lover drowned while on a cruise on the Nile...)
Tzarist Russia (fell to the godless Commies, who also weren't big fans of teh gay, as I recall...)
That Thousand-Year Reich I keep hearing so much about
Don't think the Sassanids liked teh gay
Ditto the Byzantines, at least at the end, y'know, when they were being overrun by the Ottomans...
The Hapsburgs didn't like teh gay
Neither did Napoleon
The Mughal Empire
Y'know, what? I think I'll stop right there...
Posted by: Geds | November 3, 2009 4:04 PM
Fugly websites seems to be one of the few things consistent among the wingnuts. Do any fans of Orac remember "Happeh theory"? You know, the guy who really believes "Don't do that, you'll go blind." It's as if they've never seen another website before. Some of them probably haven't.
Posted by: Gray Falcon | November 3, 2009 4:06 PM
The British Empire fell in 1946 because of Britain's acceptance of homosexuality? Homosexuality was still illegal in Britain in 1946. Britain had the strongest military in the world in 1939? Dunkirk? Malaya? Singapore? Has he not heard of our humiliation in the Far East? This isn't funny it's scary. Sometimes I find Americans very scary
Posted by: beermoth | November 3, 2009 4:10 PM
I may be wrong about this but I seem to recall that President Eisenhower did see combat in WW1 as a low ranking infantry officer.
Eisenhower never left the states during WWI. He was involved in training tank crews in Georgia and Texas. His first assignment outside of the US was in the Canal Zone in 1922.
Posted by: Tom | November 3, 2009 4:20 PM
Diagnosis: 0.6 Tc.
Interesting how honest he is in proudly supporting Faux Noise right in the middle of a range of extreme-right issues.
What? That? That's bland and incapable, but not stark raving psychedelically mad.
(Even though the restriction on the colors could be ideologically rather than sanely motivated.)
Posted by: David Marjanović | November 3, 2009 4:37 PM
When Phelps is asked if he's ever had gay sex, he gets all worked up, but never actually answers the question…
Posted by: David Marjanović | November 3, 2009 4:39 PM
Re Tom
I stand corrected. I must have been thinking of MacArthur and Patton, both of whom saw action in France in WW1. I believe, in fact, that Patton was wounded at some point.
Posted by: SLC | November 3, 2009 5:18 PM
Forgive me if I'm repeating someone else's comment, but what jumped out at me aside from the run-of-the-mill ultra-right crap on Hutchins' site was the small banner at the bottom saying (among other things) that he "supports" Fox News as if it's part of his platform alongside opposing issues like gay marriage, GM bailouts, everything Obama does, et al.
Is Hutchins under the impression that Fox News is a key issue in the election, or is he just sucking up to spoonfed Sean Hannity cultists?
Sorry, I think I just answered my own question...
Posted by: CHV | November 3, 2009 5:34 PM
Was this guy in the HBO documentary "Outrage"? If not, I have a feeling he will be in the sequel if he gets elected.
Posted by: Brent | November 3, 2009 5:44 PM
Also, check out the following at the very bottom of Hutchins' site...
http://georgehutchins.activeboard.com/
On the forums Hutchins (or someone else) set up about six weeks ago, among the several ideologically-loaded threads listed ("Left Wing Democrats/Socialists HATE Veteran's Day", etc.) only one person has replied to any of them.
One.
And that was to correct Hutchins for his claim that tea party marches were attended only by arch-right wingers.
Otherwise, every other thread is untouched.
Posted by: CHV | November 3, 2009 5:44 PM
CHV:
I'm tempted to go there and carpet f-bomb the comments threads, but empty threads are much better.
Posted by: democommie | November 3, 2009 5:54 PM
The use of the phrase "Voluntary Tolerance for all Minorities" is really creepy here. He seems to be saying that tolerance of minorities is optional, which is a scary position for a politician to take.
Posted by: Awesome McCool | November 3, 2009 6:01 PM
Yes, Patton was wounded, I've read a number of reports on the severity, from bad to life threatening, etc. It was during the St. Mihiel offensive in late 1918. MacArthur was apparently injured by gas, no actual shell or bullet wounds that I ever heard of.
Eisenhower never actually saw combat except as a staff officer or as a higher level commanding officer. It was one of the arguments made against him once he became a senior officer in Europe and was considered for the overall joint command of the D-Day invasion (his lack of combat experience). A really quite well written book about his history and his relationship with George Marshal, Partners in Command by Mark Perry came out a couple of years ago. It also mentions some of the conflicts within the army, Patton, Eisenhower, MacArthur, etc.
Posted by: dogmeatib | November 3, 2009 6:07 PM
"MORE BETTER JOBS!" Really, David? Really? Because the phrase is "Mo' Better Blues."
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | November 3, 2009 6:29 PM
Demo @ 68:
I agree. The dead silence on those forums is far more telling regarding Hutchins' candidacy than any f-bombing could be.
Posted by: CHV | November 3, 2009 6:55 PM
Jeez. That website looks like it was conceived by some idiotic high school student who was dipping into some kind of film making art workshop. Or something like that. Really. Really. Bad. Glad I don't live anywhere near the district he's running in.
Anne G
Posted by: Anne Gilbert | November 3, 2009 7:32 PM
Poor.
Fail.
Ouch.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | November 3, 2009 8:07 PM
Ed - After looking at that "creative" website I experienced one of them drug induced flashbacks. Bummer. Problem is, I never took LSD in the first place.
Posted by: Jeff | November 3, 2009 8:27 PM
David Marjanović "When Phelps is asked if he's ever had gay sex, he gets all worked up, but never actually answers the question…"
If you think that's bad, ask him if he enjoyed it.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | November 3, 2009 8:32 PM
Actually, this is a common misconception (even among Britons). Since the British Nationality Act 1981, we are, in fact, "British citizens" in official legal terminology. (The legal category which used to be known as "British subjects" is now divided into three: British citizens, British Dependent Territories citizens and British Overseas citizens.)
Posted by: Walton | November 3, 2009 8:39 PM
On the topic of campaigns, I officially apologize for my state, Virginia, which has just stepped back in time by electing a misogynist as governor.
Posted by: Katharine | November 3, 2009 9:26 PM
Katherine - what did the Dems do wrong with their candidate? They had two good runs in Warner and Kaine, why such a weak showing today?
Posted by: Michael Heath | November 3, 2009 10:09 PM
Michael Heath, I suspect the Republicretins and the ninny fence voters have gotten somewhat energized by the fact that, ho noes, Obama is in office.
Also, McDonnell is a smarmy evil stupid misogynist git from Regent Cult House.
Posted by: Katharine | November 3, 2009 10:34 PM
Also, there were a large number of people in Virginia who apparently didn't listen to anything either of the candidates actually said, but were all 'duhhhhhhhh Creigh Deeds don't talk good and McDonnell talk good'.
I think living in Virginia may contribute somewhat to the fact that I have a rather long-standing hatred of most things human. At least, today it does. Because at least 60% of Virginia has less brains than a fucking Staphylococcus aureus bacterium.
I'm not sure how most of the Virginian population actually walks on two feet if they're this stupid.
Posted by: Katharine | November 3, 2009 10:38 PM
Something actually tells me we smart liberals are in a tiny minority and that the vast, vast majority of the country (say, oh, 99%) is actually made up of brainless morons of both sides of the political spectrum.
Posted by: Katharine | November 3, 2009 10:49 PM
Possibly, but statistics (and, less persuasively, my anecdotal experience) indicates that liberals tend to be, on average, smarter than conservatives.
In addition, I'd like to apologize to the nation for New York's 23rd congressional district for (potentially) electing a Tea Party Fuckface. I tried, people, but there are a lot of dumb folks around.
Posted by: Sean Michael | November 3, 2009 11:02 PM
So California's real estate bubble was caused by the GAY MALE HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR?
Posted by: MarkusR | November 3, 2009 11:12 PM
re: Virginia -- Deeds (the Democrat) was a lousy speaker with a lame campaign. There was a brief shining moment when Deeds started talking about McDonnell's loony-Christian-Reich background, but he didn't go anywhere with it and the ads just got repetitive. I got DOZENS of robocalls, which led me to wonder whether they were effectively reaching out to independents, which I'm not. Also, the Republicans got a lot of mileage out of Deeds' stuttering around the issue of whether he might raise taxes (SACRILEGE-ELEVENTY-ONE!!!11!!!!one). And, like most Democrats, Deeds sucked at bragging about his party's past accomplishments.
Oh well, at least we can say it's not really a referendum on Obama -- this race was about Virginia issues, not national issues; and VA Republicans aren't directly connected to any of the Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin failures.
Posted by: Raging Bee | November 3, 2009 11:40 PM
I just left the Democratic Election Night festivities at a local function room.
Hoffman, the NY Conservatard Party's fuckbag of a candidate conceded to Owens. Dede Scozzafava, the GOP's handpicked candidate (whom they threw under the bus when Hoffman started polling better than her) got her revenge. She pulled just enough votes to sabotage Hoffman's chances. And he is one creepy looking mofo. His concession speech was an "I'll be back" moment. Fucker looks like Willard, has doll's eyes and doesn't blink much.
I really hope that the GOP's "advisers" take a look at this and decide to go "all in" in 2010 with a batch of Hoffman clones.
Posted by: democommie | November 4, 2009 1:09 AM
The rainbow fonts indicates his acceptance of the Rainbow Agenda.
I laughed, then I had a nasty thought: What if this is effective in bringing out the nut vote, and what if the nut vote is enough?
[Mark Twain wrote in one of the Tom Sawyer books: "Ain't we got every nut in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"\
Posted by: Ed Darrell | November 4, 2009 6:37 AM
I particularly liked his travel pics, it's nice to bring back souvenirs. Perhaps he's displaying his foreign policy experience, in addtion to his knowledge of police methods (having once stood in front of NSY)? And have you seen his YouTube postings of Al Jolson singing "Mammy" and the "Mr. Bojangles" scene? Holy crap, my jaw hit the floor (yes, even after looking at THAT website).
Still, comparing McCain to Archie Bunker and himself to Ringo Starr based on looks (or so he's been told) pretty much took the Prozac award for me. Double Dose.
Posted by: HelenL | November 4, 2009 7:12 AM
Why you gotta bring down Piggly Wiggly like that?
Piggly Wiggly is a fine company. Don't drag them down by mentioning them with this wingnut.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | November 4, 2009 9:41 AM
Is it your common practice to use geographical stereotypes for everything? Or just this?
Where are you from?
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | November 4, 2009 9:44 AM
About those commas ... a lot of people tend to type a comma any time they would pause in real speech. I think Hutchins just types one every time he starts to hyperventilate.
Posted by: Scott Hanley | November 4, 2009 12:13 PM
Abby Normal @ 55:
You owe me a new keyboard, Abby.
Posted by: Jeff | November 4, 2009 12:23 PM
He's a birther. No surprise there.
Posted by: Wes | November 4, 2009 12:59 PM
I got one for you too...he just lost reelection in our local regional tech high school committee.
Elect Mike Hayden
Note: Lowell is an immigrant-rich city, with a slight minority of white, so we are incredibly diverse.
Posted by: Lynne | November 4, 2009 3:12 PM
Posted by: llewelly | November 4, 2009 11:09 PM
This is just for Rev. BigDumbChimp:
Triangle?? TRIANGLE?? North Carolinians clearly suck at plane geometry too!
[Dingo jumps behind potted palm to avoid the Rev's head explosion] ;D
Posted by: DingoJack | November 5, 2009 2:44 AM
Worst campaign Web site ever? Let's see...
Incredibly garish? Check.
Poorly laid out? Check.
Ineptly constructed? Check.
Fails validation? Check: Home page shows "81 errors, 4 warnings found when checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional."
Oh, content? You ask about content? Any politician who is inspired by the title of Jerome Corsi's second book (The Obama Nation) is immediately suspect in my book. Add to that his endorsement of Fox News and claimed endorsement by Jesse Helms, and it's one-two-three strikes you're out. He's also confused about history, and he can only manage to write a grammatical sentence about one out of three times.
So yes, Ed, I think you've hit the mark.
Posted by: Chris Winter | November 5, 2009 1:59 PM
I know it is slightly off topic but I was hoping one of you guys could help me with something. About a year ago I read a cartoon written by a Republican seeking re-election bragging about low taxes (I think there was something about bridges too, and no it wasn't Palin!) and being opposed by homosexuals. It was really funny and full of typos. I'm almost certain Ed linked to it from here but I can't find the link anymore : (
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Posted by: Coryat | November 6, 2009 10:02 AM