Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014.

[pampango]

Robert Knight, who has been encouraging Republicans to run on social issues such as hostility to abortion rights and opposition to LGBT equality, now thinks the GOP should campaign on denying the existence of evolution.

Citing a Pew poll which shows that belief in evolution has plummeted in the GOP and is now shared by only a minority of Republicans, Knight told the American Family Association’s One News Now that “Republicans have a great opportunity” to expose the “lies that liberals have told over the years” and begin “questioning evolution more than ever.”

He also warns that a belief in evolution “leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country.”

Knight should take heart that Republicans have been working to undercut the teaching of evolution for decades, and we here at Right Wing Watch hope the GOP embraces this foolproof political strategy. "Evolution is at the core of a left-wing, secular, humanist worldview that has been breathing down everybody's necks in America for years [and telling us that] the best we can do is empower government to make our decisions for us," he offers. "That leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/knight-gop-can-win-if-it-runs-against-evolution

Just when you think the right can't get any dumber ...

[Gothmog]

1. This is already happening in the Texas Lt. Governor race

The idiots running for the GOP nomination for Lt. Governor in Texas are each trying to outdo the other on this issue. I am betting that the first candidate who comes out and states that the earth is flat will be the GOP nominee for Lt. Governor in Texas

[arcane1]

2. Please proceed.

No really, PLEASE!

[PowerToThePeople]

3. GOP, listen to Robert. He knows what he is talking about... n/t

[Swede Atlanta]

4. Go for it dude.....

let's see how that works out for you with swing voters.

This might work well for the primary base but it does not sell nationally.

But personally I hope they adopt and run on this.

They will be laughed out of town.

[spanone]

5. yes, let's dumb down the dumb party even more!!!!!!

[on point]

6. Nut job declares he is not fit for office

[Laelth]

7. Yikes! k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[frazzled]

8. Go for it!

I hope it's their main issue (though I'm not sure how you "run against evolution"--sounds like a losing battle to me!)

This would be funny if it weren't so sad. Though it's still pretty funny. I can see their slogans:

Down with Evolution!
Conservatives against Evolution!
Devolve Now!
No more Evolution!

[Rex]

9. please, Please, PLEASE DO THAT! DO *JUST* THAT!

[sakabatou]

10. Proving once again, Republicans are anti-science

[onehandle]

11. Go for it, idiots! nt