Why is The Republican Challenging Marcy Kaptur Dressed as a Nazi? (Progress Ohio)

[Kolesar]

http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2010/10/why-is-this-ohio-republican-house-candidate-dressed-as-a-nazi.html

The Tea Party candidate challenging Marcy Kaptur had his very own little segment on Bill Maher tonight.

The Atlantic's Josh Green joined Bill to report that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio's Ninth District, has an unusual hobby:

He likes to pretend he's a Nazi:

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.



Rich Iott, second from right, in a Nazi SS Waffen uniform.

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.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. stick a fork in him;

he's done.

[Kolesar]

2. gops gerrymandered that district so a Democrat would win

Kaptur is so brilliant that she owns that race in that district.

[molly77]

3. The pants don't go with the tops

Or is it the other way around?

[Deep13]

4. In this case, you can accurately judge the book by its cover. nt