Former Party Chair of the South Carolina Republican Party, Todd Kincannon, says that a drug he’s been taking all month suddenly made him go all nuts and abuse his wife.

His wife says, “Hold on there, cowboy.”

Todd Kincannon, a Columbia attorney and former executive director of the S.C. Republican Party, has been accused of threatening his wife and refusing to let her out of his car Thursday night, according to a report from the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department.

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The officer then spoke with Kincannon’s wife, Ashely Suzanne Griffith, who said that they “have a history of unreported domestic violence.” She said she was “extremely fearful” of Kincannon and described him as being “extremely ‘traditional’ and controlling, thus becoming very upset due to embarrassing him,” according to the report.

She also says that her husband “is very controlling” and has threaten to kill her, her family, and himself in the past.  A Republican man who is very controlling?  I’m shocked, just shocked I tell you.

Kincannon blames the drug Benzonatate for his behavior.  He says that he’s been taking it for a cough since March 5th but this time he chewed it and that caused him to overdose.  He added, “You’d think a guy with my IQ would know better.”  No, Honey, I think exactly the opposite.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.

Well, it’s Arizona.  Something about the dry air, I suspect.

I want you to meet Arizona Republican State Senator Sylvia Allen, who is very concerned about morality.  Frighteningly concerned.

She bemoans the fact that we cannot force people in America to attend church.

Appropriately, the bill being discussed is one that would allow people to carry weapons into public buildings.  I suspect she wants to be the enforcer of the church-or-die branch of the Women’s Missionary Union.

Thanks to Alan for the heads up.

No take backs, Louie!

Louie Gohmert thrilled my heart by emailing The Hill in Washington Dee Cee and saying …

“Ted [Cruz] is a good friend and would be an outstanding President; however, I haven’t ruled out an exploratory committee myself,” Gohmert said in a statement emailed to The Hill from a spokesperson.

Yes!

Then on the same damn day Louie’s office gets real with a Texas online newspaper, calling the first statement “irony.”  Dumb, yes.  Irony, no.  Sir, I know irony.  Irony is a friend of mine.  You are no irony.

And you wanna know the only reason Louie isn’t running?

“To more completely describe his actual beliefs, Congressman Gohmert notes the Kennedy-Nixon debates created a line of demarcation beyond which television became the critical factor in being elected President which also meant there would be no more bald Presidents in his lifetime.”

Well, he does have a point.  There have been exceptionally dumb Presidents since Nixon.  There are also been crazy Presidents since Nixon.  But bald?  Nope.

Get a man a wig and a filing fee, dammit.

Thanks to everybody and their Aunt Matilda for the heads up.

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Rabid homophobe Idaho Republican State Rep Paul Shepherd forgot to renew his website name.  Major mistake.

A college student bought it and … well, had some fun.  PaulShepherdUSA.com

In response to the website takeover, Shepherd is quoted as telling Idaho Public TV’s Melissa Davlin, “Slave owners were very good Christians and good people. …[Slave owners] weren’t terrible rotten horrible people, and that’s how I see gay people.”

Meanwhile, Hailey told Vice he’d eventually return to the site to Shepherd if the congressman made a donation to an LGBT advocacy group.

Some days are good days.

Thanks to MB for the heads up.

Okay, I will admit that I’m a moderate fan of Yoga.  It’s not something I do everyday, but it’s something I do.

It has not led me to the devil.  As of yet.

Suzanne Duarte was not so lucky.

She took it upon herself to burn down the American Power Yoga Studio in Dallas.  She used a baseball bat and a can of gasoline.  Yeah, I don’t get the baseball bat either.  Maybe she was going to use it as a torch.  I dunno.

Suzanne (who also goes by Nancy) says she is smiling in her mug shot because she was happy to get even.  She did not like one of the men who owns the studio.

“He kept hitting on me and kept trying to make me the girlfriend on the side,” Duarte claimed about one of the men.

On Saturday, Duarte says she waited until it was late so no one would be at the studio.
“Just to set it on fire, just destroy it, get rid of the devil’s temple,” Duarte said.

She was unsuccessful and none of the other businesses in the strip shopping center were damaged.  Thank God.  Or the Devil.  Seriously, I have no idea who to thank.

Here’s the fun part.  The Yoga studio has been under new management since November and they had no idea about the dispute between Duarte and the previous owner.

Nonetheless, Duarte says the only regret she has is that the studio didn’t burn.

Anyway, she’s in jail.  Smiling.  And hoping.

Duarte is being held on a $16,000 bond. She says if she gets out, she will not try to burn down the studio again.

I don’t believe her.

Namaste, y’all.