Here's the opportunity of a lifetime. A gun nut, racist, anti-government, white guy all wrapped up in one pot bellied bundle of hate.
Bundy is a multimillionaire cattle rancher in southeastern Nevada. He's been in a 20-plus year dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over unpaid grazing fees. In recent weeks, it developed into an armed confrontation between protesters and law enforcement after the BLM began rounding up Bundy's cattle that were trespassing on the land. While doing so, BLM agents were confronted by protesters and armed supporters of Bundy.
Top right-wing pundit and politicians have hailed Bundy as a folk hero and patriot. His cheering section includes talk-radio host Sean Hannity, Senators and presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, Nevada Senator Dean Heller, and Texas gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Greg Abbot. The National Review Online, Fox & Friends, and American Thinker have also supported Bundy and blamed the federal government for mounting tensions.
When it comes to issues like welfare Bundy echoes the beliefs of most Republicans;
Conservative icon Cliven Bundy told the New York Times that African Americans would probably be better off if they were still slaves.
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
Bundy, of course doesn't consider his stiffing the government on fees as a form of self-imposed welfare and not at all patriotic. But then, that's why he's just what the Republican party needs on the ticket for 2016.
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