Video: 2013 Virginia LG Nominee Says SPLC “No Different” Than “Slave Masters Or Segregationists”

For more, see Right Wing Watch, but in short, the 2013 Virginia nominee for Lt. Governor, EW Jackson, yesterday attacked the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for briefly listing 2016 Republican Presidential candidate (and an extremist by any definition of the word) Ben Carson in its “extremist files,” claiming that SPLC’s criticism of Carson was “no different than what maybe slave masters or segregationists would have said.” Yes, you could brush it off as, “well, it’s typical insanity by EW Jackson,” but the problem is that Jackson’t not an aberration in today’s Republican Party. Remember, this is a party where top leaders, like Rudy Giulani and Scott Walker, routinely question Barack Obama’s religion, patriotism, birth status, you name it. They also deny climate science and evolution, whlie routinely making outrageous comments about a whole host of other topics.  The question is, how can an extreme, John Birch Society-style freak show like this be a major political party in this country?