One year ago on this date, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” ran its original profile of Tamara Scott, a member of the Republican National Committee from Iowa, who hosts a conservative talk show there, and once served as the Campaign Co-Chair for Michelle Bachmann’s disastrous 2012 presidential run. When we last looked in on Ms. Scott, she had been opposed to gay marriage and was floating a false report from the Family Research Council that claimed keeping a ban on it saves the United States $280 billion a year and she’s also argued against same-sex marriage because she believes people could start marrying objects like the Eiffel Tower (they can’t). Scott also believes in the sinister Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, thinks that migrant children fleeing violence in Central America are “highly trained warriors who might rise up against Americans”, and has been convinced for over a year now that refugees fleeing Syrian are doing so to start a “stealth jihad” in the United States. Scott also praised Michelle Bachmann for trying to root the Muslim Brotherhood out of American government, and claimed that that group also was behind the attacks in Benghazi.
Now, that’s a fine hodge-podge of insanity. And yet, Tamara Scott, who helped write the 2012 GOP Party Platform, and will likely help write the 2016 version, continues to be completely out of her gourd:
- February 2nd, 2015: On her radio talk show, Tamara Scott floats theories from fellow RNC committee member David Barton that claim there is a correlation between prayer being taken out of schools, and a rise in rape and murder (in reality the rates of those violent crimes have dropped in the past two decades). Scott then went on to claim that the separation of church and state is not guaranteed in the Constitution.
- April 4th, 2015: After a Wiccan prayer, and then a prayer by a Muslim imam were performed in the Iowa Statehouse, Tamara Scott responds in a speech saying it is proof Christian-nation history should be taught in schools, and confesses that she “prayed for a storm” to hit during the Wiccan prayer.
- April 29th, 2015: Scott, on her own radio program, tries making a ridiculous logical argument that anyone who truly believes in gender equality should thereby have to oppose gay marriage.
- July 7th, 2015: During the debate to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Charleston, South Carolina, after the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church by a white supremacist, Tamara Scott, on her radio show, claims the shooting was “not a racial issue” but was actually an attack on Christianity. She then went on to say that the discussion to remove the Confederate flag was a “distraction like Benghazi”, and that the Confederate flag is actually a symbol of fun and affection because of how it was portrayed on “The Dukes of Hazard”. I can’t even begin to explain how ignorant, incorrect, and utterly insensitive that whole rant is.
- July 28th, 2015: Scott hosts anti-immgrant activist Jim Simpson on her program, where both agree that Donald Trump somehow was factually correct when he talked about Mexicans being rapists (he’s not).
- August 25th, 2015: Tamara Scott proceeds to start JAQing off on the air, where she tries proving that being gay is a choice by asking, “If gays are born that way, why do they recruit in our kindergarten through college-level education system?”
- October 29th, 2015: Tamara Scott hosts Elaine Danneman, the proprietor of the “Vaccine Liberation Army” on her show, where both proceed to try to dispel the rational conclusion that disease outbreaks had begun in schools because of anti-vaccination propaganda leaving children without immunizations, and instead, said the outbreaks were due to a new “socialistic model in schools” where children are forced to share pencils. Take a minute to contemplate how incredibly stupid that conclusion is for a bit, if your brain can do it without exploding.
I will reiterate, Tamara Scott, as flaming guano insane as she is, and leaving people to wonder if it’s her, or Michelle Bachmann that put stupid ideas in the other’s head… she is allowed every four years to help write the Republican Party Platform. And people act surprised as to how it ends up being more intolerant of gays, more xenophobic towards immigrants, and more out of touch with all logic and reason when it’s vomited out at the RNC.