3 Georgia Republican Senate Candidates Say They Would Vote to Impeach President Obama

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Republican Rep Paul Broun/Photograph by Douglas Graham/Roll Call via Getty

Republican Rep Paul Broun/Photograph by Douglas Graham/Roll Call via Getty

Wondering why Democratic Senatorial candidate Michelle Nunn is leading the GOP pack in a recent poll? It may be that Georgia Republicans have gone too far into the tinfoil weeds.

Republicans in Georgia are still catering to the Tea Party fringe, and they look crazy. Of the eight declared Republican candidates running in the Senate primary (Paul Broun, Art Gardner, Phil Gingrey, Derrick E. Grayson, Karen Handel, Jack Kingston, David Perdue, Eugene Yu), three said they would vote to impeach President Barack Obama if they could, according to a video obtained by Talking Points Memo and written up by Daniel Strauss. Not to worry, several Republicans didn’t attend the forum, so it’s not that they aren’t crazy, it’s that they aren’t on video being crazy.

Watch here courtesy of TPM:

At a candidate forum, a woman posited to the panel of candidates that since President Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury, shouldn’t Obama be too? “Obama has perjured himself on multiple occasions. Would you support impeachment if presented for a vote?”

Birther Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), Eugene Yu , and Derrick Grayson raised their hands to scattered applause. Karen Handel (not only the former SOS for Georgia but a 2010 gubernatorial candidate and one of the people turning Komen into a right wing activist organization) and Art Gardner sat there silently and didn’t raise their hands. In addition to being a birther, Broun also believes evolution is a lie straight from the pit of Hell, so it’s fair to say that reality doesn’t hold high office with him.

There is, of course, no reason to impeach President Obama. Perjury is the willful act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth. Obama has never perjured himself. Sadly for the tinfoil wearing GOP, disliking him isn’t a legitimate cause for impeachment proceedings, as Jason Easley pointed out on Saturday.

Indeed, if Republican Karen Handel thinks your right wing conspiracy is too crazy, you are in big trouble. Handel was endorsed by Sarah Palin in 2010. ‘Nuff said.

I know you’re wondering where Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston are when hands were raised. They were not in attendance. The peach state’s ode to the Perdue family, David Perdue, was also not there to vote.

In November, Republican Representative Gingrey lost his entire campaign staff. “Per aides that witnessed a meeting in September 2013, Gingrey said that his aides “may be 33 years old now and not making a lot of money. But in a few years they can just go to K Street and make $500,000 a year. Meanwhile I’m stuck here making $172,000 a year.” At the time he made those statements, Gingrey’s net worth was estimated at $3 million.” Not exactly his finest hour.

But then neither was it his finest hour when he, as an OB/GYN, declared that women’s bodies can shut those legitimate rapes down. Oh, Georgia. You’re too beautiful for this.

Republican Representative Jack Kingston announced that poor kids should have to sweep the cafeteria floors for their food in school. Don’t feel left out of the austerity push, though, as Kingston introduced sequestration as a GOP reform in 2010. Now that it’s here, Republicans try to blame Obama for sequestration.

In the PPP poll, Nunn held a small lead with Republican Paul Broun coming the closest.

Birther impeachment dude for the win, eh GOP? That’s what the Senate needs. Another Ted Cruz to shutdown the government in order to appease the frothing base. Oh, the confidence of willful ignorance.

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