You know, Republicans are just plain ole mean.

There’s a special election being held in the Texas 6th congressional district today. The district is bright cherry red. There’s no way a Democrat can win it, so 23 Republicans are clawing each other to death for a highly likely run-off. I call it a jungle primary.

All the polls show that the leading candidate is Susan Wright, widow of the late congressman who died of COVID earlier this year. But, while she may be leading, she does not have the 51% necessary to pull off a full win.  The race for second place is tight and could be about any one of five folks.

So, this happened …

Texas Republican congressional candidate Susan Wright is seeking help from federal law enforcement the day before her special election, after supporters reported receiving robocalls that accused her of being responsible for the death of her late husband.

Wright’s campaign reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice on Friday after discovering robocalls baselessly alleging that she had “murdered” her husband, the late GOP Rep. Ron Wright.

They are accusing her of purposefully contracting COVID and deliberately giving it to her husband. After, of course, she took out a million dollar life insurance policy on him.

That just seems like a whole lot of trouble when this is Texas and you can shoot people in the face and call it an accident. So, I think they are just being mean. On the other hand, Donald Trump endorsed her so she’s earned all the mean she gets.

And now there’s also this one.  Mark Samsel is a Republican state legislator in Missouri.

On Wednesday, Samsel, R-Wellsville, was substitute teaching at the Wellsville school district’s secondary school. Throughout the day, high school students began recording videos of the lawmaker talking about suicide, sex, masturbation, God and the Bible.

In one video shared with The Star, Samsel tells students about “a sophomore who’s tried killing himself three times,” adding that it was because “he has two parents and they’re both females.”

He also kneed a student in the groin and then asked as the student was on the floor, “Did it hurt?” He told the student he could go see the nurse and she’d “check it out.”

You know, that’s mean.