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sfpcjock

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Thu May 23, 2013, 01:57 PM May 2013

Have a nice life, Virginia! - The 20 craziest tweets from man who could be the next Lt. Gov.

@ThinkProgress - The 20 craziest tweets from the man who could be Virginia’s next Lt. Governor

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/05/23/2053321/ew-jackson-twitter/



By Scott Keyes on May 23, 2013 at 12:57 pm

GOP nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor E.W. Jackson (Credit: AP)

If you were to put the dregs of conservative Internet comment sections into a pot, boil them down to their essence, then run the resulting product through a sieve to get it to its rawest, most pure form of vitriol, it would probably look something like E.W. Jackson’s Twitter feed.

Through much of President Obama’s first term, Jackson, who was nominated this past weekend as the Republican nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, used his Twitter feed to attack gays, Muslims, Obama, and even Michael Jackson.

After reading through each of his 662 tweets, here are Jackson’s 20 most vitriolic tweets (in no particular order):



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Have a nice life, Virginia! - The 20 craziest tweets from man who could be the next Lt. Gov. (Original Post) sfpcjock May 2013 OP
I could name a bunch of folks right now who would love to follow him ... Buzz Clik May 2013 #1
 

Buzz Clik

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1. I could name a bunch of folks right now who would love to follow him ...
Thu May 23, 2013, 02:25 PM
May 2013

... or, more likely, already are.

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