Congressional candidate Allen Quist of Minnesota for saying the health care bill is evil and that fighting Democrats in D.C. is more important than fighting terrorists.
Second place goes to Nevada Senator and majority leader Harry Reid for saying Barack Obama is ""light-skinned" African-American who lacked a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
This was revealed in a new book. Now, Reid's statement made if factual in a vacuum, but nobody lives in one and to voice those thoughts in such backward word choice, by the leader of the Senate, is Wingnutish. Reid's saving grace is
1) He's apologized
2) He's got a record of action supporting African-American interests and rights.
P.S.
A couple readers challenged this Wingnut of the Week feature as immature and name-calling. Good point. But part of my motivation is that discourse in politics has become so extreme, unreasonable and absolutist that sometimes we just have to call it such. There is not room for debate and discussion for some folks, or for some folks some of the time. There is, in all of us, an inner Wingnut that we have to fight off occasionaly. I'm sure some readers will point out when they feel I'm off the reservation. :)
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To say that fighting the healthcare bill is more important than fighting terrorism is dumb. What a rediculous statement! Harry Reid on the other hand has brought up a good point about our president. Speaking proper english is key in this society. Success for him was a combination of alot of things. One of them being the use of properly spoken english. But for Reid to use the word negro was dumb as well. To me and alot of other people, using the word negro is as bad as using the other "N" word or any other racist slur. But at least he apologized and is getting alot of forgivness from the dems. After all, The longest serving senator Robert Byrd (D) used to be a clansman.
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