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Springtime for Hitler and Germany...
Oct. 9th, 2010 04:36 pmOk have the Tea Party been some sort of performance art this whole time and I just didn't get it? How in the hell else do you explain their candidate for the House, Rich Lott who, and I am not making this shit up, basically participates in a Nazi version of the SCA?
An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments.
Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-enacting the exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. Iott's participation in the Wiking group is not mentioned on his campaign's website, and his name and photographs were removed from the Wiking website.
Seriously, there are people for whom this won't be a problem but for the other 95% of us, why is this man a viable candidate in a major race? I mean I know it's Ohio, but come on...
An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments.
Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-enacting the exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. Iott's participation in the Wiking group is not mentioned on his campaign's website, and his name and photographs were removed from the Wiking website.
Seriously, there are people for whom this won't be a problem but for the other 95% of us, why is this man a viable candidate in a major race? I mean I know it's Ohio, but come on...
