How many *elected* Republicans are probably certifiably insane?

[BurtWorm]

This one leaps to mind (but then so does King from IA, Hoekstra, Rohrbacher, Hunter, Burton...)




http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/07/kathleen-harris-senate-campaign.html

....Around that point she hooked up with a predatory religionist figure, a so-called "Dr." Dale Burroughs of the Biblical Heritage Institute, her own personal Rasputin, who started calling the shots in the campaign, turning it into a kind of a carnival/revival crusade. For a while she wouldn't appear publicly except in churches. A self-described "licensed clinical pastoral counselor," Dr. Dale-- like Harris, mad as a hatter-- specializes in "crisis and disaster." She certainly has found one! And since she is the only advisor Harris listens to, the crisis that is the Harris campaign turns more disastrous by the day.

In fact it was yesterday that right wing web sites started reporting that, after only 2 months of work inside the Harris Mad House, the newest entire staff is leaving this week! That includes the latest campaign manager, Glen Hodas and her communications director Chris Ingram. Like everyone who came before, the staffers claim she's out of her mind and impossible to work with. With the federal investigation into her bribery case closing in-- she was taking illegal bribes from Brent Wilkes-- she has started making bizarre statements and throwing hysterical tantrums. She seems to have convinced herself that Florida Democrats in Congress want her to win the senate race-- something every single Democrat in the Florida congressional delegation has denied... vehemently. And her latest is to start projecting her own criminal problems on to Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, lamely claiming, out of the blue, that he's been taking bribes.

Next week she's having routine surgery to remove an ovarian mass. One staffer suggested that while she's anesthetized they also examine her brain and she if it's still functional.

[saltpoint]

1. We could make a long list. I like your inclusion of Dan Burton there.

He definitely qualifies.

Kathryn Harris. John Cornyn. Ted Stevens. You talk about someone with bean mesh for brains, you're talkin' Ted Stevens.

Orrin Hatch. Mitch Daniels. Jon Kyl. Sam Brownback. Alan Keyes. Gary Bauer. Jim Dobson.

They're all nuts.

[BurtWorm]

2. Bunning.

Beaned a few times too often. Is he still in the Senate?

[saltpoint]

3. Good choice. Yes, he's still in the Senate. But he doesn't KNOW he's

still in the Senate.

[BurtWorm]

5. Republicans are happy to elect geniuses like Bunning and Thurmond

year after year after year. They don't have to have functional brains as long as they have Rs after their names.

[saltpoint]

7. And the evidence to support your claim is overwhelming.

We need more Ds and fewer Rs after November 7th.

[porphyrian]

4. Perhaps it would be easier to list the ones that aren't. - n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Too many to count.

Safe to say they reflect the GOP's base in that regard so a good estimate would be somewhere around 30 to 40 percent.