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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 Co...