A Republican congressional candidate in North Carolina suggested that he’d be open to going to war with Mexico over problems with immigration and drug cartels.
The candidate, Mark Walker (pictured), the Republican nominee in the race to succeed Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) in North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, made the comments on June 26.
“I will tell you if you have foreigners who are sneaking in with drug cartels to me that is a national threat,” Mark Walker said during a speech to Tea Partiers in Rockingham County. The footage was reported by Rawstory.com via a post at the Daily Kos. “And if we got to go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for a little while to make our point, I don’t have a problem with that either. So yeah, whatever we need to do.”
A moderator for the event then asked Walker if he would have “any qualms about starting up a little war with Mexico.”
“We did it before,” Walker said. “If we need to do it again, I don’t have a qualm about it.”
During the same event Walker said he was open impeaching President Barack Obama if given the chance.
“Yes I would,” Walker said, in response to a question about whether he would support impeaching the President.
Watch Walker’s “laser and blitz” statement below:
(H/t: Rawstory)
(Photo credit: Youtube)
Laser or blitz? This dude watches too many films!
He seems well qualified for the job. NC could use another man like that.
He’s a manly man in a manly state with manly ambitions.
Oh wait, he’s moron.
He failed to offer atomic wedgies as a retaliatory option.
“Walker, who is running in the state’s 6th Congressional district, also said during the event that he supported the impeachment or “court-marshaling” of President Barack Obama.”
The idiotic reference to “court-marshaling” a civilian in combination with the fantasy of “lasering” a foreign country tells me this douchenozzle hasn’t spent one second in uniform.
I’ll bet his background is in marketing or some other kind of business-related activity.
*Edit: it’s even better: he’s an Evangelical Christianist pastor:
“Walker is currently the Pastor of Arts and Worship at Lawndale Baptist Church, having served in that role since 2008. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Executive Pastor of Northside Baptist Church. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biblical Studies in 1999 from Piedmont International University. He currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina. His wife Kelly is a trauma nurse.”