GOP Asshat of the Month

I'm starting a new regular feature on "Mark My Words". At the end of every month I will feature the Republican politician who has made the biggest ass or him or herself in the past 30 or 31 days. With this being the early stages of the campaign season, Republican pols are out raising as much mullah as they can from their increasingly unhinged base, which means there's never a shortage of good old-fashioned wingnuttery on display for the world to consume. There has been so much GOP excess in just the past week that I already have three top-tier contenders for the opening crown. But this one just has to win the blue ribbon.

Without further adieu, I present to you March's GOP Asshat of the Month (drumroll)........New York Senate candidate Kathleen McFarland, who is challenging Hillary Clinton.

Now granted, anyone bold enough to challenge Hillary in New York in the current inhospitable political climate has to have a screw loose, but this chick is just a stark raving moonbat. Here's what she told a group of Long Island Republicans at a gathering last week: "Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried in fact that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures."

The crowd was reportedly stunned, particularly since it was obvious that she wasn't kidding. She also apparently added that Clinton's people were across the street from her Manhattan apartment snapping pictures as well. Perhaps it was the same goons who murdered Vince Foster!!!!

What a hysterical state of affairs that the Republican Party is reduced to running Fox Mulder for a U.S. Senate seat. As jubilant as I would ordinarily be about the Republican Party running such a flake in a high-profile race such as this, it's actually a mixed blessing. The good news is that Hillary Clinton and New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Elliot Spitzer will win by such overwhelming margins in November, they could help swing vulnerable GOP-held Congressional seats in upstate NY to the Democrats. On the other hand, Hillary's commanding win will position her beautifully for her kamikaze 2008 Presidential bid. If there was a glimmer of hope of slowing the Hillary '08 train before it derailed, Kathleen McFarland just blew that glimmer out.