How safe can the seat of a certifiably insane incumbent like Gohmert Pile be?

[BurtWorm]

Can anyone from Texas offer insight on this? How does a disturbed dipshit like this dude get anywhere near the levers of national power? Is there some sort of environmental toxin in Gohmert's district that has ravaged his constituents' brains?

:wtf:




http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/YNBhAojOtTo/-Watch-a-Republican-congressman-go-crazy


So GOP Congressman Louis Gohmert (R-TX) claims that he's discovered the new terror plot threatening to "destroy our way of life." The conspiracy? Terrorists are coming to the United States and having babies, babies who are programmed to explode bombs on U.S. soil "20 or 30 years down the road."

Gohmert calls them "terror babies," but they are literally an invention of his own mind. There's no evidence for his conspiracy theory whatsoever, yet for some reason, he went on CNN's Anderson Cooper to try to defend it. The interview (watch it below) was hilarious -- unless your name is Louis Gohmert. Cooper reduced Gohmert to a sputtering tub of GOP incoherence, repeatedly challenging Gohmert to offer a single shred of evidence of his wild idea -- something Gohmert never managed to do.

Partial transcript (full transcript below fold):

COOPER: The FBI says this is just not happening. You are spreading scare stories, and this is completely about politics.

GOHMERT: It is happening. It is happening.

COOPER: Where? Give me some evidence. Tell me one person, one terror baby that's been born? Can you tell me?

GOHMERT: The explosions will not happen for 10 or 15 or 20 years and then you will be one of those blips. I'm not comparable to Winston Churchill, but the detractors like you are comparable to his detractors.

COOPER: OK.

GOHMERT: He tried to tell people these things were going on.

COOPER: All right.

GOHMERT: Anderson, do you really believe that the ones that want to destroy the United States are more stupid than these entrepreneurs in China, than these people in Mexico?

I guess he was getting jealous of Michele Bachmann. But at least he deserves some credit for fusing fear of Mexicans with fear of Muslims, right? Not even Sarah Palin can claim to have done that...at least not yet. But it's coming.

[damntexdem]

1. Well, he does very well with the disturbed dipshit vote.

And that in itself may be enough to ensure his reelection.

[BurtWorm]

2. Aren't there enough rational nondipshits to counterbalance that bloc?

Or are the nondipshits in the district too despairing or apathetic to even try to unseat him?

[blogslut]

3. Gohmert is running unopposed

The population in his district is pretty damned conservative. In the 2008 election, McCain got 70% of the vote in Gohmert's home of Smith County

[BurtWorm]

4. What's wrong with them? Seriously?

Why is there a surplus of that kind of conservatism in that county? Poor schools? Zero cultural exposure? I don't get it. I don't mean to be naive, I just want to understand how a place can go so wrong.

[blogslut]

6. I don't know

As conservative as Gohmert's district is, mine is tied with a district in Alabama as the most republican district in the nation. I was born and raised here and I still don't get it. Despite a 4-fold rise in Democratic votes in 2008, my county still managed to give McCain 89%.

[BurtWorm]

8. I guess it's easy to multiply your Democratic votes fourfold

when you only have four Democratic votes to begin with. ;-)

[blogslut]

10. Sigh

I wish that were funny. :(

[sufrommich]

5. So is he saying that if you don't believe Mexicans babies

are being programmed to blow up then you're just like Neville Chamberlain? Did I get that right? :crazy:

[BurtWorm]

7. That is in the gothic ruins of an abandoned ballpark of what he said, I think.

Something about Chinese babies, too, somehow.

[TheWraith]

11. I think it's being generous to him to pull even that much coherence out of him.

He's speaking Teabagger, where irrational language is simply smoothed over with a massive dose of paranoia. Witness Glenn Beck.

[rufus dog]

9. Info from Wikipedia

Just checking on the first County in his district the following popped up:

Smith County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 174,706 , while in 2007 it was estimated to have reached 198,705. Its county seat is Tyler<1>. Smith county is named for James Smith, a general during the Texas Revolution. Smith County is no longer an entirely dry county. A referendum revoted on from May 2009 due to illegal voting in the election passed a second time around on November 3, 2009, for the City of Winona; the proposition legalized the sale of beer, wine and liquor within the city limits.
Smith County is part of the Tyler Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Tyler–Jacksonville Combined Statistical Area. The county is represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Leo Berman of Tyler.

Camp Ford was the largest Confederate Prisoner of War Camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. The original site of the Camp stockade is now a public historic park, owned by Smith County, Texas, and managed by the Smith County Historical Society. The park contains a kiosk, paved trail, interpretive signage, a cabin reconstruction, and a picnic area. It is located on Highway 271, 0.8 miles north of Loop 323.

[classysassy]

12. The anti Mexican crusade

by the republican racist scum will explode in their ugly faces,let the word go out to all Mexican American citizens,go to the polls and rid this country the vermin that spew their hatred against everyone that don't look or act like them.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Mark Twain

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. East Texas is full of idiots like Goomer the Tumor.

My Congress Cretin is Joe Barton ("Carbon dioxide is harmless because it's in your Coca-Cola").

I'm south of Tyler. There are tons of rednecks who are ignorant, racist and proud of it. Not sure how many congressional districts in TX have these guys, but I know there are a bunch of them.

FACTS are to be ignored. Reality and facts are BAD. Seriously. My county went 2-1 for McCain in 2008.

:banghead:

[TheKentuckian]

15. Somewhere between extremely and a stone cold lock

There is deep insanity in this country, the likes of Jim DeMint and Jim Bunning are elected to multiple terms in state wide races for the US Senate. Some reps in the House are completely toys in the attic loco and there is no shortage of them.

Then to make matters more stomach churning the likes of Kucinich and Barbara Lee are cast as the equivalent of the rapid Dark Agers like Virginia Foxx, Bachman, and Gohmert there.

[lib2DaBone]

16. Gohmert used to be a Judge...

How many innocent people are rotting in jail because of this nut case?