It goes beyond poor judgment. Read this report by Dave Neiwert at Orcinus. This is a young man running for office as a Republican. Now, you might think, from his own comment, that he's just clueless:
Zirkle confirmed to The News-Dispatch on Monday he spoke Sunday in Chicago at a meeting of the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, whose symbol is a swastika.
When asked if he was a Nazi or sympathized with Nazis or white supremacists, Zirkle replied he didn't know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.
"This is just a great opportunity for me to witness," he said, referring to his message and his Christian belief.
This was an event, by the way, in honor of the birthday of Adolf Hitler. He was a populist of some sort, right? Believed in traditional morality and all that?
But if you dig a little deeper:
An account of the gathering on www.Overthrow.com says "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.''
... Zirkle said he feels he was misunderstood. His real mission, he said, is to rid the country of pornography, and that's what he was saying at the ANSWP gathering. So how did his comment about Jews fit in?
"Most of the male porn stars were Jewish at the beginning," Zirkle explained.
I'm not going to brand the entire Republican party with this, but I do want to say that perhaps they'd better keep an eye on their fringes. This guy's a little bit more than a loose cannon.
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