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GOP Senate candidate Chris Mapp defends "wetback" remark

When Texas Senator John Cornyn winds up sounding like the voice of reason in a debate, that's a pretty good indicator his opponent is crazier than a hamster on speed.

It's being reported that Cornyn's Tea Party opponent in the upcoming GOP primary - Chris Mapp - recently had some interesting things to say to the Dallas Morning News' editorial board. In the editorial board's endorsement of Senator Cornyn, they wrote the following:

"South Texas businessman Chris Mapp, 53, told this editorial board that ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight anyone illegally crossing the border on to their land, referred to such people as 'wetbacks,' and called the president a 'socialist son of a b**ch.'"

Not only was that bad, but Mapp made things worse by later defending his remarks to the San Antonio Express-News, when he told him the racist term was as "normal as breathing air in South Texas."

The often times irrational Senator Cornyn then responded to Mapp's commentary with these words:

"That kind of rhetoric is discouraging from anybody. I recognize this is a free country but that's not the sort of way to gain people's confidence that you care about them and you want to represent their concerns in the halls of Congress."

After the president struck a historic deal with Iran regarding their nuclear development, Senator Cornyn tweeted this:

"Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care"

Yeah, when that guy comes across as looking rational in a debate, like I said at the outset, that's a pretty good indicator that his opponent is crazier than a hamster on speed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/chris-mapp-wetbacks_n_4849184.html

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/stupid-right-wing-tweets-john-cornyn

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