EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE REPUBLICAN NAZI LOSES HIS PRIMARY-- THE INDIANA CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARIES

A couple weeks ago we were all aghast watching Tony Zirkle, an Indiana Republican candidate for Congress celebrating Hitler's birthday at a Nazi Party meeting. He lost his primary today, coming in third-- but still earning 3,566 Republican votes in the second CD. The 3 Republicans together wound up with less than 20,000 votes and Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly, who had no challenger, had almost 85,000 votes.



In the third CD Republican rubber stamp incumbent Mark Souder garnered 26,689, winning his primary, while the Democrat challenging him, Mike Montagano, who was unopposed, had 57,489 votes. It was a similar story in the 4th CD, where GOP incumbent Steve Buyer won his primary-- all 3 Republicans getting around 43,000 votes while Nels Ackerson, the Democratic challenger (unopposed) got over 55,000.

Republican loon Dan Burton had a tough primary but he beat his opponent 25,678  to 18,730. Mary Etta Ruley, the winning Democrat in the district, did better than either of them with 26,662 votes. In the 5th CD there were around 44,000 Republican voters and 46,000 Democratic voters.

The big shocker though was in the 6th District where Blue America-endorsed progressive Barry Welsh took 82,179  votes, as opposed to rubber stamp extremist Mike Pence who only had 38,031 votes.

In the 7th CD Andre Carson, with 7 Democratic primary challengers, won convincingly. He will face Jon Elrod (who had 17,000 votes compared to Carson's 58,000). In the 8th CD reactionary Democrat Brad Ellsworth had no primary. And in the 9th another reactionary Dem, Baron Hill, fended off his primary challengers, including Blue America-endorsed Gretchen Clearwater.

Right now 95% of the votes are counted in Indiana. Clinton has 606,497 votes (50.7%) and Obama has 589,888 votes (49.3%). Gary, Indiana hasn't reported most of its votes and that is Obama territory. They are still counting absentee ballots.

NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE NAZIS-- NOT EVEN ALL INDIANA REPUBLICANS

Indiana GOP candidate pledges allegiance to his hero

It would be unfair to tar all Republicans as Nazis. I fondly remember NY Republican Senator Jacob Javits when I was growing up. And John Lindsey was a decent Republican even before he switched parties and became a Democrat. And... I'm sure there are some other decent Republicans, though none seem to show up on TV. Instead we get a steady stream of lunatic fringe thugs like O'Reilly, Hannity, Marsha Blackburn, James Inhofe, and John Cornyn. But if you're a Nazi or a fascist and you want to get involved in politics, chances are you know exactly where your ideas will be taken seriously-- the G.O.P.

Let's take a look at some recent events in Indiana's second congressional district. In 2006 reactionary Democrat Joe Donnelly beat right wing extremist Chris Chocola (54-46%), and then went on to create a record of voting more frequently to rubber stamp the Bush agenda than any other Democrat except 3 truly wretched Dixiecrats-- Jim Marshall (GA), Nick Lampson (TX) and John Barrow (GA). Chocola says Donnelly still isn't far right enough and he's trying to get the seat back. But someone even further right than Donnelly or Chocola-- over the edge attorney Tony Zirkle-- doesn't think either of them is far enough right and he's engaged in a vicious primary battle with Chocola.

So in pursuit of his goal of being the next congressman to represent IN-02 Zirkle chose Hitler's birthday to address a Nazi Party meeting in Chicago. I think Bush and Cheney and McCain should say where they stand on their party's candidate addressing the Nazi faithful. I know, I know... McCain says he doesn't always agree with all the ideas of the people who endorse him. He just likes Zirkle's other ideas, the ones about Jews and African-Americans screwing young white Christian girls in porn films; that's Zirkle's real passion and what has driven him insane and into Republican politics. I thought you might enjoy watching the video of the Republican standing in front of a picture of Hitler on his birthday and making a speech to a roomful of Nazis. In defense of Zirkle, he says he'll speak to any group, not just Nazis. "I'll speak before any group that invites me," Zirkle said Monday. "I've spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta." Imagine that! If you've never heard an anti-semite babbling a bunch of vicious anti-semitism, I bet you'll be shocked by this video: