On October 1, I posted an article about the stealth funding for Art Robinson, who is challenging Rep. Pete DeFazio in Oregon’s 4th Congressional district. Robinson was living on the Social Security while trying to hawk home-school textbooks for the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican party. He also published a newsletter in which he pontificates on a wide variety of conspiracy theories. One of his favorites is denying global climate change. That is probably why corporate special interests stood him up as a candidate and are financing him in secret. Last night, he appeared on the Rachel Maddow show, made a complete fool of himself, and demonstrates that it is possible to make Christine O’Donnell look comparatively sane.

But first, this is an excerpt from a letter to the editor by a resident of Oregon’s 4th.

I never heard of Art Robinson until his signs began popping up all over. Who is he? Where does he stand? I looked up what his position was about education, and found a lot more. And was I shocked! Here’s a quote from his 1997 Newsletter, Access to Energy: ‘Public education (tax-financed socialism) has become the most widespread and devastating form of child abuse and racism in the United States. Moreover, people who have been cut off at the knees by public education are so mentally handicapped that they cannot be responsible custodians of the energy technology base or other advanced accomplishments of our civilization. These ignorant people vote and their votes are beginning to destroy our way of life. Can this problem be corrected? Yes. Can it be corrected by improving the public schools? No — only by abolishing them." And he said it again just last year in his speech at the International Conference on Climate Change, March 2009. See the clip on YouTube: Art Robinson: I think the public schools should be abolished… [emphasis added]

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And that doesn’t even scratch the surface. Move your coffee cups away from your computers, lest you spray your screen and keyboard.

Who could have predicted that we could think of Christine O’Dingbat as the comparatively sane one? Sprinkle radioactive waste? AIDS a government conspiracy? Wacky-doodle-do!!

Note that he kept talking about protecting the environment, but slipped and said what he meant, protecting the environment for exploitation by US companies.

Seriously, if Republicans and their corporate shills will put such a man forward for public office, is there and depth to which they would not stoop?