{"id":2254,"date":"2004-08-04T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2254.html"},"modified":"2004-08-04T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:24:55","slug":"lunatic-candidate-in-tennessee-embarrasses-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lunatic-candidate-in-tennessee-embarrasses-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunatic candidate in Tennessee embarrasses Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the GOP outreach to the African-American community has suffered yet another setback. A racist\/lunatic named James L. Hart will probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A36842-2004Aug3.html\">be the Republican nominee<\/a> in a Tennessee congressional race this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Hart] is an unapologetic supporter of eugenics, the phony science that resulted in thousands of sterilizations in an attempt to purify the white race. He believes the country will look &#8220;like one big Detroit&#8221; if it doesn&#8217;t eliminate welfare and immigration. He believes that if blacks were integrated centuries ago, the automobile never would have been invented.<\/p>\n<p>He shows up at voters&#8217; homes wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a gun, and tells them that &#8220;white children deserve the same rights as everyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his radical views, Hart may end up winning the Republican nomination because he is the only GOP candidate on the ballot in Thursday&#8217;s primary. His presence in the campaign has embarrassed Republican leaders, who were blind-sided by Hart after they didn&#8217;t bother fielding a candidate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be sure, incumbent Rep. John Tanner (D) isn&#8217;t in any danger of losing this race. He&#8217;s held the seat for 15 years, having beaten plenty of normal candidates by wide margins.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the fact that this fool will probably be the Republican candidate for Congress this year is twisted. To its credit, the local GOP is promoting a write-in campaign for an area businessman.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;primary&#8221; is tomorrow. I&#8217;ll let you know what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the GOP outreach to the African-American community has suffered yet another setback. A racist\/lunatic named James L. Hart will probably be the Republican nominee in a Tennessee congressional race this year. [Hart] is an unapologetic supporter of eugenics, the phony science that resulted in thousands of sterilizations in an attempt to purify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}