Mississippi GOP congressional candidate: Democratic policies are ‘more dangerous’ than 9/11

[ccharles000]

One of the winners in yesterday’s primary elections was state Sen. Alan Nunnelee, who secured the GOP nomination for a congressional seat in northern Mississippi. The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel notes that Nunnelee was an “stablishment favorite” and raised the most campaign cash for the three-way race. However, Nunnelee is far out of the mainstream. In little-noticed comments on Saturday to a Rotary Club in Corinth, MS, Nunnelee said that Democratic policies are a bigger threat to the United States than Pearl Harbor or 9/11:

Republican congressional candidate Alan Nunnelee tells a Rotary Club audience that the United States survived the traumas of Pearl Harbor and 9/11, but those attacks were less a threat to America than the higher spending and government expansion pushed by Democrats.

“What I see in Washington over the last 16 months is a more dangerous attack because it’s an attack on our freedom that’s coming from the inside,” Nunnelee, neatly dressed in a gray suit and red tie, tells about 30 people who have finished their lunch of chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes and fried squash.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/02/nunnelee-911-democrats/

[Frustratedlady]

1. The menu sounds like more of a threat than Nunnelee.

That was a stupid remark to make. I hope he loses big time.

[Blue Owl]

2. What a fearmongering fuckwad

n/t

[City Lights]

3. Nunnelee is the choice of chumps. nt

[indepat]

4. What an ignorant, dumb, stupid, deranged, delusional, devious, hypocritical effin' f*ckerhead

:evilgrin:

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Well given that 9/11 and Pearl Harbor already happened, he might inadvertantly have a point