GOP Strategist: "1st of all, I think Congressman King should get some therapy for his melon fixation

[kpete]

Talking to David Gregory on NBC’s Meet The press, King argued that immigration reform would entail granting citizenship to “a lot of people…up to the age of 35″ who smuggled drugs over the Mexican border. Navarro hit back hard, telling King he needed to “get therapy” for his bigoted views about Latinos:

KING: This proposes to legalize a lot of people that will include the people who are drug smugglers up to the age of 35. You cannot do a background check on people that don’t have a legal existence in their home country…

NAVARRO: First of all, I think Congressman King should get some therapy for his melon fixation. I think there might be medication for that. I think he’s a mediocre congressman with no legislative record and the only time he makes national press is when he comes out and says something offensive about the undocumented or Hispanics.… There are other voices who are the adults in the room and who are working hard towards a reform. and I think it’s going to happen. I’m more optimistic than most.

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/08/11/2448541/strategist-epic-smackdown-congressman/

[nyquil_man]

1. "Mediocre congressman with no legislative record"

That sums up at least half of Congress.

[YOHABLO]

2. Well yeah. But blame the ''mediocre'' constituency that put him into office .. that's the prob.

[bluestate10]

5. The majority of people in his district support immigration reform. Blame single issue voters and

other voters that don't care enough to vote in anything but Presidential elections. Also, blame voters who are so pure that they are too offended to vote at all, or vote for the lesser of two evils. King is certainly evil, deep, deep evil.

[nyquil_man]

6. The entire system is designed to favor mediocrity.

Getting elected in the first place is the biggest challenge and, even then, the districts have been designed in such a way that you're probably a shoo-in so long as the right letter appears behind your name. Incumbency alone, nine times out of ten, will ensure your reelection. It doesn't encourage candidates or constituents to think. It encourages them to repeat themselves.

Frankly, I'm surprised we get anybody in Congress who's worth a damn.

[Berlum]

3. America needs to send all the Republicon Hater-Wackdoodles, Inc. to therapy

And allow American democracy to proceed.

[bluestate10]

4. I watched that exchange, she was pissed, rightfully. She had been mouthing republican

talking points, but not on the subject of Steve King.

[Jefferson23]

7. King is correct, many do agree with him in private. The strategist is smart, she knows

Republicans need the Latino vote and with idiots like King making that ever more difficult the more
likely they'll let him know he had better shut up in public.

Did she denounce him publicly when King said, in 2008? hmm


Steve King, Republican Congressman: Al-Qaida Will Be "Dancing In The Streets" If "Hussein" Obama Wins

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/08/steve-king-republican-con_n_90540.html