Apparently, a guy who managed to become a well-regarded GOP Congressional candidate has an interesting hobby - he dresses up as a Waffen-SS officer and participates in WW II re-enactments.

Now I don't know enough to judge his choice of character (I'm sure there are Redcoat re-enactors who don't wish the Yankees lost the Revolutionary War). But I do know enough to wonder "what the hell was he thinking?" How in the wide, wide world of sports can someone get to a position where they are running for Congress and not think "Hmmm. Maybe I need to do a statement explaining why there are all these pictures of me dressed up as a SS officer." Or that a political party is so clueless that they wouldn't have an intern spend an hour doing Google-fu to check out candidates they were touting.

So the next time someone from Washington adopts a superior attitude, and suggests you should listen to them because of their superior wisdom - think about this.
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