Competition is fierce for the coveted Crackpot of the Year award. Up ‘til now, Emperor George II and Anne Coulter have been in a tight race for for this honor. But lately, a new candidate has risen up through the ranks. U.S. Representative Katherine Harris has gone so far to the right that she has evidently fallen off the edge and bumped her noggin. Now, I was thinking about explaining how much of a nut case she is and then it dawned on me, no one can say it better than Katherine herself. You see, she was interviewed for the Florida Baptist Witness on Tuesday. That, all by itself, illustrates how nuts-o she is. Here are some excepts. (Remember this is just one article, she’s built a whole career on shit like this.)

When asked why voters — specifically Baptists — should care about this primary (i.e: vote for her) she waxed this’n: "If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin." Whoa! “Legislate sin?” That’s White House caliber spin. Well played. I don’t suspect that’s the last we’ll hear of that angle. I’m looking forward to more. “Policy of evil.” “The Satan lobby.”

And if that wasn’t yummy enough she puts a dollop of this on top: “People look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong.” Wow, could she be any more self-righteous and condescending?

When asked what role she felt faith should play in politics and government she dispensed this tidbit: "The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.”

Nice, huh? Wait, there’s more: “And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that's certainly isn't what God intended.”

Wha-wha-what? Let’s take an intermission and pull a quote from one of those founding fathers that she seems understand so well, James Madison (with thanks to Rhonda Lokeman of the KC Star for digging it up): “There is not a shadow of right in the General Government to intermeddle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation … a particular state might concur in one religious project … But the United States abound in such a vast variety of sects, that it is a strong security against religious persecution, and is sufficient to authorize a conclusion, that no one sect will ever be able to outnumber or depress the rest.” Sound to you like Harris is a crackpot? This is what I’m saying.

One more. When asked about her view on why she opposes the funding of stem cell research, more wisdom spews from the hole in her face. “I am adamantly opposed to embryonic stem cell research and voted as such. I'm the only candidate in the primary or general who's voted against embryonic stem cell research and has voted for cord blood research and adult stem cell research.” Honestly, can I get a WTF? This is a woman who has — true to Republican form — voted to ban abortion. How can someone claim to be adamantly pro-life and yet be so adamantly opposed to the concept of extending life. Freak.

As I’m sure you are aware, she won the nomination in the Republican primary on Tuesday. (Thanks again, you Floridian retards.)