Sometimes I just have to scratch my head and wonder just how crazy is crazy enough for the GOP. This clown is actually the frontrunner to win the GOP candidacy for a House seat.
North Carolina Republicans are circulating court documents that suggest a far-right Tea-Party-backed congressional candidate claimed to be the Messiah, tried to raise his stepfather from the dead, believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland, and found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona.
Tim D’Annunzio also has written that he wants to abolish several key government departments, including the IRS. But there’s more going on here than just another wacky conservative politician. The effort by GOP leaders to stop D’Annunzio at all costs offers an intriguing test case of their ability to keep control of the party in the face of challenges from the Tea Party wing. Or as D’Annunzio himself has put it: "The power brokers in Raleigh and in Washington are willing to go to any length and use any unscrupulous tactic to try to destroy somebody. They think that they’re losing their control over the Republican party."
D’Annunzio is seeking the GOP nomination to take on Rep. Larry Kissell (D-NC) this fall. He was the leader in a primary earlier this month, but didn’t win enough of the vote to avoid a runoff in June. The state and national party is backing his opponent, former T.V. sportscaster Harold Johnson. And how.
"I consider Mr. D’Annunzio unfit for public office at any level," Tom Fetzer, the North Carolina GOP chair, told reporters recently. "What he could do to the party as our nominee is secondary in my view to what he could do to the country if he got elected." And a spokesman for the NRCC said: "The issue is, do we give Democrats a candidate that they can absolutely tear apart in the general election? I don’t think most Republicans want to see that happen."
To undermine D’Annunzio, the state GOP has been circulating records from his 1995 divorce and from a 1998 child support judgment. In the latter, as the Charlotte Observer reported Sunday, the judge called D’Annunzio "a self-described religious zealot," and wrote that D’Annunzio had "described the government as the ‘Antichrist’."
In the divorce case, Anne D’Annunzio said her husband had told her that "God was going to drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid" on Greenland, and also that he had found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona, among other unusual beliefs.
In addition, a doctor wrote in the custody proceedings that D’Annunzio told him he had once received treatment for heroin dependence, and was jailed three times for offenses that included burglary and assaulting a police officer.
D’Annunzio says his personal problems are in all in the past. But the Born Again candidate still has some pretty extreme political ideas. On a blog he writes, entitled "Christ’s War," D’Annunzio declared [Teabagger delinked] earlier this year that he wanted to "abolish the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Energy, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Transportation, Treasury, and Home Land Security," and the IRS, as well as "any appellate court that has shown an anti Constitutional activism." He also advocated giving control of Social Security and Medicare to the states… [emphasis added]
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If that’s not scary enough, here is an ad from D’Anunzio from February.
Join Tim D’Annunzio for a machine gun social
Thursday, February 11
6:30pm, until the ammo runs out (10pm)
Jim’s Guns
4632 Yadkin Road
Fayetteville
MP5s and Uzis will be available to shoot
Cost: $25 per magazine
Includes Carolina BBQ dinner and refreshments
FREE GUN GIVEAWAY
All attendees will be eligible to win a gift certificate redeemable for an AR-15 from Jim’s, and other door prizes
Click here to RSVP [delinked], or call 910-848-0200
You must be 18 or older to attend.
Tim D’Annunzio for Congress
PO Box 489
Raeford, North Carolina 28376
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He even made Keith Olbermann’s Tea Time segment.
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Now GOP apologists will claim that the main party is backing the other guy. I grant them that. Just like they did in Kentucky, they’re supporting a goose-stepper with a lower insanity level to save themselves embarrassment. But if he wins the runoff and becomes the GOP nominee, how much do you want to bet that Mitch “One Bought Bitch” McConnell and the GOP leadership will embrace his candidacy, just like they have that of Rand Paul?
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Don’t know whether to heave a sigh of relief or cry.
Cry.
I happen to think this is great news. We need to keep it it the news though, We need to keep it current so that it becomes embedded in the minds of voters. I hope this guy and Dandy Randy along with Sarah and Bachmann are in the news every freaken day. Oh and please let him be on Fox perhaps with Beck as the New Savior of the Nation.
True colors of the GOP.
Tim, I agree with you, but it really concerns me that such an individual could garner so much support in this nation.
Wow! I mean WOW! Where do these certified nuts come from? This guy should be in a padded cell. It is great news – in a sick sort of way.
Leslie, a very sick sort of way.
This man should be in a psychiatric facility with padded walls, not running for Congress. Where do they find these crazy people? The nearest mental facility?
Lisa, I think the mental hospitals would kick this one out as too great a challenge.
I think the “Machine Gun Social” was a riot … much better than the usual meet and greet. Tim also held a parachuting fund-raiser … what’s wrong with these things??? What’s wrong with a man stepping up and volunteering to run for office — knowing his character will be assasinated but usually by opponents, not his party officials.
This is a man who has built multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up … and we don’t want this kind of experience in DC?? Are we all totally insane??
One final point: When do we forgive past transgressions?? God forgives instantly … are the NC GOP party and its members putting themselves above God?
Welcome Catherine. Riot may be a dangerous term. What’s wrong is that given that the level of GOP/Tea Party hate speech, a social where one can shoot machine guns is likely attract the rabid militia fringe. I see nothing wrong with a parachute fund-raiser, but you’re comparing apples to oranges here. There is nothing wrong with anyone stepping up and running for office. It’s our right as Americans. What is wrong is that a man who believes such ludicrous things should be taken seriously by voters. And considering the morality of Banksters and BP, making millions of dollars is hardly a guarantee of ethical conduct.
On one point we agree. As a former prisoner (see the About Me page here) nobody believes in second chances more than I do. I spend several hours each week as a volunteer helping prisoners and former prisoners. But I do not object to D’Annunzio’s former transgressions. I object to his current positions.
I took the liberty of taking at the PAC you head, CTC 2010, for the benefit of our readers. My compliments on a very slick professional presentation. I like it that you say that you have no affiliations and are open to ideas and people from all views. But I have a few questions. When you talk about those who have taken over government in a non-responsive fashion, why are only Obama, Pelosi and Reid mentioned? When you discuss partners, why are you partnered with only Republican and Tea Party organizations, such as Dick Armee’s Astroturf group? Why is the list of candidates you endorse a veritable rogue’s gallery of extremest wing-nuts: Gohmert, Bachmann, Paul, etc. Are you just another representative of the most extreme wing of the GOP?
Oh God, I love this stuff. The GOP is ready to circle the wagons, grab the guns and fire inward once again! Oh the inhumanity! The carnage! The sheer fun of the wingnuttery of it all. This is stuff no comic could dream up for a million bucks!
Sherry, it truly boggles the mind.
As a physician, what I’m wondering about is the doctor who testified at his divorce hearings:
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_el_ho/us_gop_tea_party
Being the Messiah? Raising relatives from the dead? God’s 1,000 mile-high pyramid in Greenland? The Ark of the Covenant in Arizona? Claims like those tip the scales to “Certifiable” for me.
Perhaps the Doctor had his training in Dingbatology. 😉
BTW, here’s a direct link at D’Annunzio’s own website on that “Machine Gun Social & Fundraiser” last March (no Rambo, but a graphic featuring multiple weapons with the flag as a backdrop):
http://www.timvote.com/index.php/2010/02/machine-gun-social/
MP5s and Uzis will be available to shoot
All attendees will be eligible to win a gift certificate redeemable for an AR-15 from Jim’s, and other door prizes
Sounds like a blast! Might as well start buying Greenland real estate and beat the rush. But I thought the Ark of the Covenant was stored in a warehouse at Area 51?
You mean you can’t buy the Ark of the Covenant for less at Wal-Mart?
ROTF!
I thought it was wiped out by Indiana Jones. 😉
If I were an “SNL” or Stewart/Colbert writer, I’d start to worry. As more nut-jobs like this start to surface, all that will be needed are transcribers and desk assistants. Of course, watching the GOP, which so eagerly fueled this madness in defeat’s wake, rise up in alarm is most entertaining!
Welcome Tim. May I call you SF Tim after the initials of your blog, as another Tim is a regular here. The more the GOP loons do to alienate the independent voters, the more I like it.