Craziest Republican of the Day: Jon Kyl

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Let me turn this over to New York magazine's Joe Coscarelli:

Rather than simply paying his respects to the dead from last night's attack in Libya, Republican Senator Jon Kyl somehow managed to make things worse and mention rape. In reference to the controversial statement released — before the killings in Libya — by the U.S. embassy in Cairo, the one already fumbled by Mitt Romney, Kyl explained, "It's like the judge telling the woman who got raped, 'You asked for it because of the way you dressed.' OK? That's the same thing. 'Well America, you should be the ones to apologize, you should have known this would happen, you should have done — what I don't know — but it's your fault that it happened.'" Nope, that's not the same thing at all. Not even a little bit.

Of course, for Republicans, there's rape and there's legitimate rape, and... oh, never mind. 

It's like they just can't help themselves, and like there's just no end to their fevered insanity.