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Juanita was over at the VFW dance this weekend and heard tell of a candidate in Dallas, Texas, who is doubling-down on scare-the-pants-off-you crazy.

His name is Stephen Broden and he’s running for the United States Congress.

Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.

“If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary,” Broden said, adding the nation was founded on a violent revolt against Britain’s King George III.

Broden says that violent overthrow of the United States of America is not his “first option.”   I suspect that’s good to know.

“Now just to gild that lily, I need to tell you that Broden is a pastor,” Juanita reports.  “I have no idea if his church is filling the baptismal tank with  ammo and the choir is wearing camo, but I think someone with a peach pit size of sanity needs to go check.”

“Last year Broden claimed that  the economic crash in the housing, banking and automotive industries were  “contrived” and a “set up” by the Obama administration,” she says.

“It’s like I always say: talk is cheap, but whiskey costs money.  Apparently, the mission fund is being used at Jim Bob’s House of Guns and Cheap Liquor.”

Apparently it is.

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“Ya know, it’s a damn good thing I have helpers elves because there’s about five gallons more crazy out there than I can keep up with,” Juanita says with exasperation.

Scott sent me this one from a debate in Illinois.

Al Reynolds, Stunning Man

The Republican candidate for state Senate in the 52nd District said Wednesday night that black men “find it more lucrative to be able to do drugs or other avenues rather than do education.”

Al Reynolds, 65, of Danville made the remarks at a candidate forum at the Champaign City Building. The forum was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Champaign County NAACP.

Reynolds’ comments came in response to a question about increasing the number of black and Latino students at the University of Illinois.

And then in what may be the understatement of the year, the reporter writes that the audience seemed “stunned.”  Yep, ignorance is powerfully stunning.  It can stun you back sixty or eighty years.  And this dude is living proof.

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Juanita’s foreign correspondent Carol sent this to remind us that at least we’re not Connecticut.

A recent sign seen in their Senate race.

We’re using this for a display at the Museum of Dandy Fun.

Harold Cook has a picture of a disgusting sign on display in East Texas.   Then some nincompoop comments that he doesn’t understand why we find the sign to be racist.  Duh.  No, really, duh.  I’m a woman of many words, but I can’t think of another one to say in this case.  Go take a look.

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“What the heck fool tarnation gosh drat are we gonna do with Teabaggers and the mysteries of spelling?” Juanita wants to know.

Ken Mercer is running for re-election to the Texas Board of Education.  Re-election.  This nincompoop is one of the turkeys currently on the school board.

He has a Facebook Page.  For those of you who get hives from Facebook, I have provided a screenshot of his page.  Click the little one to get the big one.

Can’t find it?

“Look closely, he is on the State Board of Education, he’s a Teabagger Republican, and he’s has a campaign — well, I’m not sure sure about the last one.  I think it’s more like a campagin.  Maybe that’s a campaign with free champagne at the headquarters.  I dunno,” she admits.

In one of those perfect moments of irony, on Ken’s website he wants “a return to true phonics, grammar, spelling and writing (goodbye to thirty plus years of the bureaucratic failure known as “whole language”)”

Ken is for family, faith, and freedom and he wants to put Sean Hannity in Texas social studies textbooks.

However, he apparently opposes spelling.

Thanks to Jon for the heads up on this one!