What is it about having sex with animals that compulsively sticks in right-wingers' heads? It's an obsession with conservatives.

I remember when the freak known as Neal Horsley famously admitted to having sex with farm animals to Alan Colmes a few years ago.

Is it true?" Colmes asked. "Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..." AC: "You had sex with animals?" NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule." AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so." NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?" AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?" NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..." Horsley:You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You're naive. You know better than that... If it's warm and it's damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it."

Newshounds has more.. When Horsley ran for Governor, he also said he'd kill his own son in order for Georgia to secede from the Union as a way of ending abortion in his home state. He's one of those Randall Terry type abortion nuts too.

Then you had Rick Santorum and his "man on dog sex" fantasies. Now we have the teabagger elite known as J.D. Hayworth.

Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) primary challenger, former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth, warned this past weekend that the same-sex marriage decision handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Court is so loose in its logic and wording that it could lead to a man marrying his horse...

James Wolcott writes about it in the only way he knows how.

But I think the voters of Arizona should think twice about a man willing to toss away 2000 years of Judeo-Christian values to mate with a horse. "[If] you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse,” he told an interviewer from KORN News. I wonder what Mrs. Hayworth thinks of her husband's cavalier attitude about the sanctity of marriage, his willingness to cast it and her aside if the right pony came along that he could make his horse-wife. "A devoted family man, J.D. is happily married to Mary, and they are blessed with 3 children, Nicole , Hannah, and John Micah." Oh sure, now they are blessed; but if J. D. Hayworth insists on giving in to his affections, he may eventually be the proud sire of a second set of children named Flicka, Pegasus, and Phar Lap, whose glossy manes would be the envy of their classmates but would make any future candidacy "problematic," even in a Palinized Republican Party barely distinguishable from your average freak show.

We should keep a list of all animal-sex-loving-Republicans for CNN, don't you think?