True fact: You can't be elected Senator in Idaho unless your brain is a potato.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[dflprincess]

1. Yes, my mother often talked about when the Viet Cong attacked Pearl Harbor

Glad there is a screen shot of this, whoever handles the senator's Twitter account did revise the post.

[brewens]

2. Viet Nam War? I thought it was the Germans that bombed Pearl Harbor? :) n/t

[Hoyt]

3. Whew. Not much Senator can say but, "You know what I meant."

[Enter stage left]

4. And have a IQ about 1/3 of a potato

[bottomofthehill]

5. Two weeks after the famed Battle of Bowling Green.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. So fucking stupid.

Cab a Republican be embarrassed by their ignorance?

[ShazzieB]

8. Must be a time traveler.

I wonder if he was also at Gettysburg, or San Juan Hill, or the Battle of the Somme?

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Not quite Sen. Spuds MacKenzie

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[progree]

10. Vietnamese, Japanese, what's the diff in his mind, they are all "Asiatics" to him, same war

different phases.

[hoosierspud]

11. Is Crapo hitting the gin bottle again?

N/t

[Zambero]

13. That's what Jack Mormons do!

[Zambero]

12. Bona-fried

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Even if you switched it to "WWII" it's still arguably not accurate

Given that the US didn't enter that war until after this young man was sadly killed.

Ergo, he did not 'leave Idaho to serve' in WWII either.

[rurallib]

15. On the pus side, Crapo probably wrote this himself

to show his sincerity