Meet this election’s most, well, interesting candidates.

How does the class of 2010 stack up against its lunatic predecessor, of 1994? There are the well-known data points— Rand Paul’s alleged kidnapping of a college classmate; Sharron Angle’s assertion that there are “domestic enemies” in Congress—that suggest we’ve reached a new zenith of crazy, making Newt Gingrich’s bunch look like sensible establishmentarians by comparison. But Paul and Angle only begin to capture the strangeness of candidates out there who may soon be occupying your Capitol and governor’s mansion. Herewith, a guide to the truly special specimens.

TENTHER MADNESS

Tom Emmer

Gubernatorial Candidate, Minnesota