Lee Bright, SC senate candidate, is still dim

Lee Bright, a challenger to Lindsey Graham for his current South Carolina senate seat, continues to be a wee bit out there.



First up, he seems to think that Obamacare is the gateway to Nazi's.

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At one point in his speech he mentioned how he’d a read a post on Upstate S.C. Congressman Jeff Duncan’s Facebook page about IRS agents training with AR-15 rifles. “If that’s true -- which I take him at his word -- if that’s true and they’re doing assault weapons training, the Brownshirts are next,” Bright said. “Because that’s the enforcement group for Obamacare, is the IRS. If you don’t have an IRS, you don’t have Obamacare. That’s the mechanism that’s controlled our lives for far too long.”

Then things got kind of weird when he sort of tried to invoke some contradictory logic but also acknowledged it by asking people to hate government but put him in charge of it.

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“Don’t trust anybody elected,” he said. And, according to Bright, that even includes himself. “I would say don’t trust me now and don’t trust me if I’m a U.S. senator,” he said. He went on to argue that power is seductive and those who obtain it tend to do whatever they can to stay there. He urged voters to keep a short leash on him should he end up toppling Graham and make it to Washington. “Don’t trust government; make government small,” he said.

Uh huh.



And then he decided to not just jump into the deep end he suited up in the liquid oxygen suit from The Abyss and dropped into the void in the world of logic.



You see....he seems to hate that judges are citing our constitution and using it to strike down laws prohibiting gay marriage without cause. And Lee Bright has a solution to this problem.

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I think if you just took the most egregious case, possibly the one out in Utah where basically the state constitution is being trumped by one federal judge, in a sense the will of a sovereign state ... Congress ought to stand up and do its job and impeach one of these federal judges. And I think when you do that — being a federal judge is a pretty good gig — and I think if you’ll impeach just one, the rest of them will do the right thing. And they’ll do it out of necessity, because self-preservation is an instinct that so many folks have.

That's right. He wants congress to impeach Federal Judges who made rulings they don't like. Should I point out that impeachment of judges is supposed to be reserved for judges who have committed crimes or neglected their duties? And that only eight judges have ever been impeached and removed from office with another resigning and none were as a retaliation for a ruling?

John Pickering, U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 2, 1803, on charges of mental instability and intoxication on the bench; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office on March 12, 1804.



West H. Humphreys, U.S. District Court for the Middle, Eastern, and Western Districts of Tennessee.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, May 6, 1862, on charges of refusing to hold court and waging war against the U.S. government; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, June 26, 1862.



Mark W. Delahay, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, February 28, 1873, on charges of intoxication on the bench; Resigned from office, December 12, 1873, before opening of trial in the U.S. Senate.



Robert W. Archbald, U.S. Commerce Court.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, July 11, 1912, on charges of improper business relationship with litigants; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, January 13, 1913.



Halsted L. Ritter, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, March 2, 1936, on charges of favoritism in the appointment of bankruptcy receivers and practicing law while sitting as a judge; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, April 17, 1936.



Harry E. Claiborne, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, July 22, 1986, on charges of income tax evasion and of remaining on the bench following criminal conviction; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, October 9, 1986.



Alcee L. Hastings, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, August 3, 1988, on charges of perjury and conspiring to solicit a bribe; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, October 20, 1989.



Walter L. Nixon, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, May 10, 1989, on charges of perjury before a federal grand jury; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, November 3, 1989.



G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, March 11, 2010, on charges of accepting bribes and making false statements under penalty of perjury; Convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, December 8, 2010.

So....America run the way Lee Bright would do it has a congress that summarily removes judges that don't let them do whatever they want. I'm beginning to think his plea to the people to not trust him if elected is a vestigial sane section of his brain peaking through and trying to warn us.



But considering what his out in the open self so readily declares do we really need such a warning?

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"You look over at Israel, and that’s an armed group of folks over there,” he said. “I mean, they are teachers with machine guns on playgrounds, because you got terrorists over there that would choose to harm children and whose teachers are there to protect them. When you’ve got folks that are armed and able to defend themselves, the threat of terrorism goes down drastically.”

Yeah terrorists. Better think twice about targeting our school from now on. Elderly third grade teacher Ms Maple will now be packing!

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