Don't worry, folks. The Great Porn Dragon won't sleep easy tonight, because everyone's favorite Nazi-sympathizer is back on the case. As it turns out, this may be the only case he works on for a while.
Zirkle has been interested in the 2nd District seat for years. This is his fourth run for Congress.
He finished third in a three-person race for the Republican nomination in 2008 and second in two-person races for the nomination in 2006 and 2004.
Zirkle's law license was suspended for at least two years in August after a judge found him guilty of professional misconduct. He said he has been living in Lake County, which is not in the 2nd District, since closing his South Bend law office last summer.
As he has in the past, Zirkle said his platform will be based on the belief that Congress needs to crack down on pornography to make this a better nation.
State Rep. Jackie Walorski seized on Zirkle's candidacy as evidence that yes, indeed, there are people more out of touch with mainstream Hoosiers than her.
(Bumped from the user diaries. 17% of Republicans in the 2nd District are cool with Nazis and the return of segregation. Surprising, or not? - promoted by Thomas)
According to the Indianapolis Star's Election Tracker page, Congressional candidate Tony Zirkle (R-Hitler) managed to find almost 6,000 Indiana Republicans who think that he not only belongs in their party, but that he belongs in the US House of Representatives.
In fact, in Howard County, Zirkle received more votes than Luke Puckett.
In case you missed the post yesterday: Tony Zirkle is a GOP congressional candidate in the 2nd District. He hangs out with Illinois Nazis.
(Insert requisite Blues Brothers joke here.)
Why the media (and yours truly) keeps giving this guy the time of day is a mystery. Are train wrecks really this enjoyable to watch?
Zirkle said he feels he was misunderstood. His real mission, he said, is to rid the country of pornography, and that's what he was saying at the ANSWP gathering. So how did his comment about Jews fit in?
"Most of the male porn stars were Jewish at the beginning," Zirkle explained.
Now the male porn stars are mostly black, he claimed, and the women who appear in pornographic works tend to be "young, white, Christian women."
If people think he is targeting the Jews, he said, they are misinterpreting his position. He is targeting, Zirkle said, the "porn dragon" that inspires Jews to get involved in pornography.
Jewish men are culpable for running the business end of the pornography business, he said, but young white women are guilty of starring in it.
When the party of Tom Tancredo and Pat Robertson thinks you're a little off the reservation, you know you are blazing your own path. Your own insane, segregated path.
Zirkle is one of four people seeking the Republican nomination as the 2nd District U.S. representative. In a story in Tuesday's edition of The Tribune, Zirkle said he wasn't saying which side of the debate he'd take but that segregation might be a way to deal with the high rate of black men in prison and out-of-wedlock births among blacks.
"These comments are antiquated and asinine and are the childish machinations of a publicity hound," said Chris Riley, St. Joseph County Republican chairman. "In no way does this notion of segregation reflect the views of the Republican Party. This is just taking publicity hunting to a whole new low."
"I'm very upset that someone who carries the Republican shield has made these remarks," Riley added.
If only the Republican Party would recognize that ignoring the plight of low-income Americans helps maintain the de facto segregation along socio-economic lines in this country, maybe I'd feel bad for them and their little Zirkle problem. As it stands, I won't pretend I don't enjoy watching them squirm.
Update: Oh, and the "mainstream" GOP candidate really, really hates Alaska. And thinks that more oil will somehow translate to energy independence.
Yeah, that's right -- the 2nd District has done it for us again. And let's be honest and recognize that Tony Zirkle makes the Chris Minor episode look like mere child's play. The South Bend Tribune reports:
[Tony] Zirkle, who's seeking the Republican nomination in Congress' 2nd District, told a weekly newspaper, The Kokomo Perspective, that he questions whether desegregation has worked in the United States. He suggested that separating whites, blacks and other minorities by states could create a new sense of community and is an idea worth debating.
Zirkle confirmed those comments to The Tribune on Monday but said, "I'm not going to say which side of the debate I fall on."
Both of Zirkle's opponents denounced his statements.
He's not going to say what side of the "debate" he falls on? The segregation debate? Who the hell is still having the segregation debate, other than Tony Zirkle? I mean seriously, segregation is accepted by everyone as a dark time in our history, right?
"Well, has it?" Zirkle asked. "African-Americans in Indiana have 80 percent out-of-wedlock birth rate. Fifty percent of all African-Americans between 18 and 25 are in the criminal justice system. Is it working? I don't know. You can't say there is no argument to the contrary. Yes, there have been many advances, but there are still many problems."
He went on to tell the Kokomo Perspective, "While we are brainwashed with respect to integration and forcing everyone to be together and basically all arguments to the contrary are silenced, historically it's very often been the case that you have to segregate and apartheid people to stop the continual war."
Uh...
Zirkle goes on to state that "his proposal" would need a congressional study before it could be implemented (of course!), but that it is worth looking in to. The logistics, he admits, would be a bit messy, but luckily he's got some quick answers to some of the tough questions.
So how would you divvy up Hispanics?
You can pretty much lump them in with whites, he says.
What about black Latinos whose black roots go back several generations in Latin America? And what about the ever-growing number of mixed races?
"You'd have to let people declare what culture they want to be living in," Zirkle said.
He pointed to Indian reservations as an example of segregation. But didn't those work out poorly? Zirkle answered: "There are plenty of Indians living on the reservations today by their own choice. There's a communal trend."
This is the first time in a long while that I've battered the fair use doctrine a bit by extensively quoting from a single article, but let's not mess around with spinning this one way or another: this guy is crazy, and I just can't help myself.
To finish things off, he ends with a Bible verse and a warning not to ignore the word of God. You know, the God who loves segregation.
And we get at least another two months of this guy. I can hardly wait.
John N. Frame, a Republican who filed for 2nd District U.S. representative, withdrew Monday morning, according to Pam Potesta, co-director of the election division of the Indiana secretary of state's office.
Another Republican candidate for 2nd District U.S. representative changed the way his name will be listed on the ballot, Potesta said.
Attorney Tony Zirkle filed originally as Tony Hvfvgpd Zirkle, but he submitted an amended form late last week to be listed simply as Tony Zirkle.
Apparently Zirkle thought that the made-up middle name would be a bit too much in his bid for office. Or maybe he was just frustrated that no one had solved the riddle yet.
Every day or so I drop by his website for a chuckle or two, and today's gem is worth repeating:
We would do well to learn from the French Revolution. It started with a great disparity between the rich and the poor and a high incarceration rate. The French stormed the Bastille, made marriage nothing but a civil contract and a reign of terror ensued with the eventual establishment of the dictator Napoleon who instituted the first mass draft.
Well, he has advocated for bringing back the guillotine, so apparently not everything about that period of time was negative.
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