While we can treat Alan Keyes as some sort of sad joke, we can't treat Tom Coburn the same way since he is likely going to be the next US Senator from Oklahoma. You might not expect a doctor would be a big advocate of killing, but has been noted before, he has advocated executing abortion providers. And here we see that last year (yes, after 9/11 changed everything) he declared that the biggest threat to our freedom is ... gays. What did the rest of the country do to Oklahoma that would lead it to force Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn on the rest of us?
Posted by armand at August 9, 2004 01:42 PM | TrackBack | Posted to PoliticsAs a semi-native Oklahoman, I can only say: It's worse than you think. Remind me to tell you someday about the time a close relative of mine ran for state office on the GOP ticket and was clobbered by the Shiite wing of her own party...
Then again, JC Watts was a hero of mine as a kid, so I guess in some ways that balances the scales a little...
--Lurch