An Extremist in Sheep’s Clothing?

It looks as if this week’s contest in Massachusetts to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Edward Kennedy’s passing last August is going to become a lot more controversial amid revelations that in 2008, Republican contender Scott Brown sided with “unhinged right-wing activists [in] pushing the line that [Barack] Obama’s parents weren’t married, a claim that became central to the bizarre Birther conspiracy theory.” More on that here and here.

Just what we don’t need, another GOP conspiracy nut near the levers of power in America ...