February 27, 2010 11:12 PM UTC

At Least He's Not Your Congressman... Or Is He?

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• by: Go Blue

Republican Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-2) believes African-Americans are worse off today than they were during slavery:

“It seems like humanity is very gifted at hiding from something that’s obviously true. I mean in this country we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say, ‘Well how blind were they, what was the matter with them, you know, I can’t believe, I mean four million, this is incredible,'” said Franks. “And we’re right. We’re right, we should look back on that with criticism. It is a crushing mark on America’s soul. And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more black children, far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today, than were being devastated by the policies of slavery.

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Former Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez said something similar during his gubernatorial campaign and more recently, former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo floated the idea of bringing back Jim Crow laws.

Both Jane Norton and Cory Gardner are running as birthers, which is of course pandering to the 67 percent of the Republicans in Colorado who think the President wasn’t born in the United States.

Needless to say these are bad policy ideas (or lack there of), but since it seems to be the year of the tinfoil hat, could embracing right-wing black helicopter ideas like this be “good” politics for a Republican running in a primary?