Rep. Hayworth adviser who suggested hurling acid at Dems resigns

[Heywood J]

16. Just when you think this stuff only happens in some backwater hole.

Apparently it's been taking root here as well. This would seem to call for more than a non-apology and a "he's gone, let's talk about something else". I can't imagine anyone making that suggestion publicly prior to the last decade and it sickens me to think that's what discourse has become.

ETA: Nobody pops up and says something that whacked for their first time at the mic. I have to wonder how long he's been touting that kind of shit and whether this is just the first time he was willing to say it openly. I can't imagine what it's like in those offices, and why anyone would keep him around as long as he was.