Idaho Candidate Who Joked About Hunting Obama Now Says God Can Save Constitution

He said he's "tired" of people telling him he can't bring God into his campaign speeches.

That's like Sarah Palin being tired of journalists curtailing Sarah Palin's First Amendment rights.

Or something.

I guess if you're trying to make yourself stand out, calling on God to save the Constitution is one way to do it.

And hinting about censorship only adds to it.

Is this guy outside the bounds of what passes for normal Republican discourse in Idaho? Just wondering. Honestly, it doesn't seem much crazier than the mouth foam Virginia Foxx and Vernon Robinson were throwing around when the old battleaxe took over Burr's seat.

People like this should never get near a position of power and should be mocked and ridiculed in public.

Save the Constitution? Don't you think you should try reading it first? I don't think it says what you think it says.

And, by the way, where were you assclowns in the GOP when Bush and Cheney were circumventing and showing their utter contempt for the Constitution?

Oh, that's right. Nothing happened before January 2008. That was the beginning of existence.

People like this idiot love to glamorize the notion of engaging in an armed conflict against the U.S. government. I wonder how glamorous he'd think it would be to at ground zero of a cruise missile attack.

If he ever gets a revolution started he's going to have a lot of blood on his hands.

I believe the Confederacy has dibs on the idea of a second American Revolution. One of the earliest proponents of secession said that he could and would drink every drop of blood spilled in the conflict from a silver goblet.

I'd say skip the goblet and just waterboard Rammell until he calls for God.

Didn't Bush say god told him invading Iraq was the right thing to do? Tells you a ton about their god, eh?

he's so gay, and so afraid

sad

"...when the government of the United States is corrupt..."

So...considering that if we take this Republican candidates statement to be true..."the government of the united states is corrupt" and the Republicans have held the power in government for 21 of the past 30 years leaves me to think that he is admitting that the Republicans are the source of the problem.

Be careful of what you ask G-d for Mr. Rammell...you may discover that you and your Republican colleagues are the ones G-d will protect us from.

You don't have to listen to more than 30 seconds of Rammel's speechifying to know that he's running as a Mormon, not as a U.S. citizen. Just as Joseph Smith and his Mormon forbears were, Rammell is nothing less than a traitor to the Constitution he professes to love.

This tendency of Republicans these days to call on God to smite their political opposition is not serving them well. I don't believe there's been any divine intervention either way, but it would be easier to argue that they're commencin' to piss him off.

Maybe we can convince Rammel to take Cheney partridge hunting?

The wimp and the whiner, each vying for the first shot, it would just be a matter of time before...

Rex Rammel sounds like a porn name.

30 comments so far, *zero* recommends, and I haven't even got 1/4 way through listening to this loon's speech!!

Apparently, Rammell has been campaigning for office in Idaho before a backdrop of the Teton mountain range in WYOMING!

And, he recently had property foreclosed on, in Jackson Hole.

Just piling on here, but if only God can save the Constitution then it's not going to happen. If He sat out the better part of the 21st Century, there's clearly nothing that'll get Him to put a dog in the fight.

And I hate to break it to this guy, but his pandering to the religious right will only get him so far. A large portion of his base thinks he worships a false idol. Super-strict Christianists don't cotton to those Mormons too much. (Just ask Mitt.)

I honestly wish I knew whether people like this represent a loud, but tiny portion of the population or if we have a large and now loud bunch of lunatics out there. My inability to figure this out for good is driving me to early dementia.

I wouldn't worry about the rantings of Rabid Rammel. Even as governor of Idaho, what effect could he possibly have on the U.S. Constitution? He's only playing up to the fears of Right Wing anti-government types out there in the Backwater of the Universe.

Is it possible that, psychologically, right-wingers feel guilty about supporting folk like the Bushes and Reagan and, like the German folk who should have kicked out Hitler when he was alive and didn't, now believe they should revolt (literally) against the next person they don't like?

He's not doing much of that now with Nazi metaphora in play.

We are in America's second Revolutionary War to save our freedom, which we paid for with blood.

It's okay. He's just using the royal we.

"To think that we can save the Constitution without God's help when the government of the United States is corrupt is absurdity," he said.

Unfortunately, Rex Rammell fails to explain why God might take on the task of saving our secular Constitution. Apparently he believes that Americans are the tribe chosen by God. His apparent belief conflicts with the Bible, particularly the Old Testament.

The Republican definition of "freedom" is basically the right to act like an asshole.