{"id":15698,"date":"2015-07-25T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15698"},"modified":"2015-07-25T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T20:00:20","slug":"republicans-on-parade7252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/republicans-on-parade7252015\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–7\/25\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the seventy-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Tea Party member John Russell Houser, shown posing with a Republican symbol he had hung. He is so honored for demonstrating what a crazed Republican Ammosexual can do with gun.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0725RepublicanFlag\"John Russell Houser, of Phenix City, Alabama, posted frequently across a variety of online forums — from political discussions to message boards for Oldsmobile enthusiasts — where he complained about “moral decay” and media brainwashing.<\/p>\n

“America is so sick that I now believe it to be the enemy of the world,” he wrote under the name Rusty Houser in a December 2013 comment [Republican Hate Site delinked<\/em>] on Fellowship of the Minds. “I know next to nothing about Iran, but the little I do know tells me they are far higher morally than this financially failing filth farm.”<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old Houser was less active on Facebook and Twitter, although he left behind some clues about his beliefs on those social media networks.<\/p>\n

“If you don’t think the internet is censored, try reading a newspaper from a country that hates liberals the way I do,” reads his second — and last — Twitter post<\/a>, from June 2013. The first argues that “Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America [members not brainwashed].”<\/p>\n

His Facebook account<\/a> shows just two likes — the “I hate liberals!” political organization, which uses an avatar that reads “Stand with Rand,” and the Crossroads Irish-American Festival.<\/p>\n

Posts on his Facebook page reveals an interest in limiting women’s influence over the church, a hatred for American culture, and complaints about liberals “brainwashing” Americans into hating their own country…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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To be completely clear, to what extent, if any, Houser’s Republican views served as a direct motivation for his shooting spree is unknown, as Rachel Maddow<\/a> explains in her coverage of him.<\/font><\/p>\n