Fringe GOP candidate spends Hitler's birthday with neo-Nazis

[cascadiance]

Source: Raw Story

Nick Juliano
Published: Monday April 21, 2008



An outlandish long-shot seeking the Republican nomination for an Indiana congressional seat spent Sunday at a neo-Nazi gathering celebrating the birth of Adolf Hitler.

Tony Zirkle is running for the 2nd District GOP nomination, but he has no support from local party officials, and the front-running candidate there refused to even participate in a recent debate with Zirkle, for fear of legitimizing his candidacy.

Zirkle said he would speak to any group that invites him, and that he admired the American National Socialist Workers Party's concern about "prostitution of young white women," according to WSBT-TV. Overthrow.com, a Web site associated with the "white advocacy" organization, reported that Zirkle "spoke on his history as a state’s attorney in Indiana, prosecuting Jewish and Zionist criminal gangs involved in trafficking prostitutes and pornography from Russia and the Zionist entity."

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The suggestion that pornography "pimps" be subjected to the guillotine came during a 2006 campaign against then-incumbent Chris Chocola. He garnered 30 percent of the vote in that primary. Chocola decided not to run again after losing to Democrat Joe Donnelly.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fringe_GOP_candidate_spends_Hitlers_birthday_0421.html

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Sheesh, is this what the Republican Party is devolving into? Downright scary. At least most other Republicans still aren't associating with him.

I knew Chris Chocola (who beat him last time he ran in the GOP primary) in high school as my next door neighbor in Michigan many years ago, and my dad's boss's nephew. I didn't care much for their family and was glad when he got voted out of office by Joe Donnelly in 2006, but damn, in a way I'm thankful it was he who won that nomination instead of this Zirkle character, and I would think those living in South Bend would too.

[baldguy]

1. Please, please find a pic of this guy shaking John McCain's hand.

[muryan]

3. brilliant. nt

[cascadiance]

8. Looking, but noone looks to be want to be seen with him...

Here's a few more pics from that gathering though...

http://12.107.40.66/lsn/news.asp?articleID=10690

[Amonester]

10. watta bunch of criminals wannabee...

or R they criminals already??

[cascadiance]

11. Art Jones of Illinois third district looks like another of this crowd....

Here's his web site:

http://www.arthurjonesforcongress.com/

And he's mentioned speaking with Zirkle at this event (though it says "former candidate" in this article saying that like Zirkle did against Chocola in last election, Jones still got 30% of the Rethug votes in his primary earlier this year!

http://whitereference.blogspot.com/2008/04/american-national-socialist-workers.html

[Amonester]

12. they R somewhat scary, but their stupidity is astounding...

do these nuts (and the absolute sh*theads who VOTE for them) really think they have one hint of a chance to succeed??

Watta Way to Waste their time.

[lonestarnot]

2. "for fear of legitimizing his candidacy"

:spray: :rofl: Isn't that what their stolen elections do?

[onehandle]

4. "Long-shot?" Really. Sounds like a mainstream GOPer to me. nt

[Richard Steele]

5. I made Mr. Zirkle a nice campaign poster just this afternoon:

[cascadiance]

9. Nice, check out this audio clip I just found...

Wants to make part of Lebanon a "Christian state" probably in the interest of getting away from being allied with Israel.

http://www.moeturn.com/TonyZirkle.mp3

[mike_c]

6. and people accuse me of being antisemitic for criticizing Israeli policies....

THIS guy is antisemitic! And an asshat, too.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Wow.

The guy on the left is about the finest example of the tragedy of incest I have ever seen.

[Hardrada]

13. These guys are a little bit beyond "bitter" if you ask me.

One wonders what increased influence they would have if we had Weimar type inflation.

[truthisfreedom]

14. Squinty, fat-faced, comb-over fearless leader in the background,

you can almost smell the b.o. in the room from these adolescently-challenged weirdos.