In 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the former U.S. House Representative from Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, Trent Franks. In our first look at Rep. Franks, we had to let everyone know that there's nothing wrong with your eyes, his mouth is kind of weird, as Rep. Franks was born with a cleft lip and palate and required surgery to correct it. That’s honestly one of the least weird things about him, as he’s declared Barack Obama an “enemy of humanity”, segued debates on the House floor about a balanced budget amendment into a discussion of abortion and Nazis, claiming straight married couples “deserve” the legal rights they get as opposed to gays and that LGBT advocates are “intolerant” of Christians, claims there’s nothing in the Bible that obligates Christians to help the poor, demanded investigations into President Obama’s birth certificate, and to top it all off, once said in an interview that “African Americans were better off under slavery”. Franks was one of the, if not the most fervently anti-abortion Republican in Congress (and that’s saying something), and accidentally revealed that the GOP knew about the Center for Medical Progress’ fraudulent Planned Parnethood “sting” videos before they were ever released to the public. He has compared legalized abortion in the United States to both slavery, and the Holocaust, and gone on the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch and promised God's Judgment would soon fall upon abortion providers as it once did upon those who worshipped at altars to Baal (because that sounds perfectly sane).. Franks has gone on FOX News to say that ISIS was going to work together with Iran (even though they are sworn enemies of one another) and attack America with a nuclear weapon while President Obama would be out golfing, and that he waswas regarding President Obama’s executive orders on immigration as saying that they were the “death of the Republic”. After Donald Trump got a lot of Russian help to win the 2016 presidential election, and the intelligence community began to reveal the extent of the Russian attacks upon our democracy, Trent Franks went on MSNBC to say that if the Russians hacked our elections, it actually was a form of “public service”.
But that wasn’t even the stupidest thing he said since we last covered him, not by a long shot. Rep. Franks was arguing in favor of tighter border security, giving the example that in his mind, it would be possible for terrorists to smuggle a nuclear weapon across the U.S./Mexico border by hiding it inside of bales of marijuana. In 2017, while a lot of #MeToo stories were coming out and GOP Congressmen were getting forced into early retirement for sexual harassment in the capitol, all of a sudden, Trent Franks had his name come up, as well. The details… well, the most graphic details remain mostly unknown…. However, the allegations are that Trent Franks had gone full “Handmaid’s Tale” on staffers, often pulling them aside and asking if they would be surrogate mothers for his future children, hoping to have sex with them to impregnate them. As this absolute bastard was shown the door and won’t be back, we’ll go ahead and retire his profile at this time and go ahead and take a look at a different wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 772-40, since this was established in July 2014.)
John Cox
Welcome to the 772nd original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where today we’ll be discussing John Cox, the Republican nominee to be the Governor of California. His prior political experience was to run a losing campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois in 2000, and for U.S. Senate in Illinois in 2002. He also was the first Republican to announce a presidential campaign in 2008, and got all of 10 votes in the Iowa caucuses.
Cox got the endorsement of Donald Trump in 2018, which around the country was the kiss of death… but in California? Why, would you adopt a staunch anti-immigration policy in one of the states calling the most for reform? He was already a dead man walking, from an electoral standpoint. Making matters worse, in the final months of the campaign in August of 2018, John Cox compared long lines at the DMV to the Holocaust.
A savvy political campaign might be able to spin their way out of that. John Cox does not run savvy campaigns, as this is what his campaign spokesman came up with to try to “fix” things:
SEE? FIXED IT.
After bizarrely ignoring all of California’s major cities on the campaign trail, and instead, trying to rally his followers at places as scenic as a Costco gas station (and being asked to please leave), Cox only got 38% of the vote in California against Gavin Newsom. We’re pretty sure he isn’t going to make another state-wide run for office again.