This man is running for Congress and he hangs out with Nazis:
From CBS News [1]:
Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in northern Indiana's 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.
The event Zirkle attended was in celebration of Hitler's birthday. These people are real Nazis, losers who still believe in Hitler's ideology more than 60 years after Hitler got his ass kicked.
Of course this is no surprise coming from a Republican who is pro-segregation [2].
Republicans are not Nazis. But the ties between Republicans and white supremicists and their willingness to accept intolerance is disgusting to me. Also in Indiana, Republican Speaker of the Indiana House Brian Bosma told a group of Jews they didn't matter because only 2% of the population is Jewish [3]. Ann Coulter has attacked Judaism and Islam [4]. Racism is a frequently used and well-documented tactic by the Republican Party in electoral politics [5]. A Republican in Montana has been openly racist towards a Native American politician [6]. Right-wingers in Delaware have even carried out a genuine pogrom [7] against a Jewish and a Muslim family. Prominent Republicans even blame Jewish conspiracies [8] for their problems. Anti-Semitism, racism and intolerance are rampant in the Republican Party [9] these days.
Unlike the Nazis, there is nothing inherantly racist or anti-Semitic in the Republican ideology. But the right-wing fanatics that have taken over the Republican Party under Bush are racist, anti-Semitic and intolerant. The more open acceptance of Nazism by Republicans like David Duke and Tony Zirkle is only the tip of the iceburg.
For those who want to reject Republican racism in Indiana, Joe Donnelly [10] is the Democratic Congressman Tony Zirkle wants to go up against. Show him your support against right wing Republican fanatics by donating [11] or, if you live there, volunteering [12] for Donnelly. And write letters to the editor [13] expressing your disgust with Tony Zirkle, Brian Bosma and Republican intolerance.
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