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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre the voters in Louie Gohmert's district really this stupid?
To keep re-electing this asshole?
Rep. Louie Gohmert suspects that the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport might be another coverup like Benghazi.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/13/another-coverup-gop-lawmaker-compares-florida-airport-shooting-to-benghazi/
Warpy
(111,529 posts)Jebus sells really well in east Texas. That and hating Yankees.
ETA: Juanita jean herownself did a story on one of the towns in his district, http://juanitajean.com/there-are-no-atheists-in-foxholes-or-hawkins-texas/ . Once you start learning about his district, Louie the GOMER makes perfect sense.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,159 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,959 posts)they are.
I try to tell folks that these people are deplorable and unreachable.
There isn't any way that you can ever get them to vote for a Democrat.
3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)He is one for the record books.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)My guess is that either he's the only one who lives there or, yes, they are irretrievably stupid.
CanonRay
(14,163 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,141 posts)Gohmert's district has sent Texas' stupidest and most reactionary congressional representatives to Washington for nearly a century.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)LT TX
(104 posts)& yes they are that stupid. For the most part, people think that that the R's are Christians (ya know because of abortion and gays) and D's are evil. They vote straight R because their church tells them to.
It's very disheartening. But we're not ALL stupid, just outnumbered.
Archae
(46,385 posts)I live in congressasshole Glenn Grothman's district, and he got in mainly due to his opponent having a scandal.
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