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Remember Dr. David McKalip? You’ve got to go way back to the dawn of the Crazy in mid-summer 2009. He was the anti-Obamacare neurosurgeon who has founded ‘Doctors for Patient Freedom’ but then got tripped up when he started circulating an anti-Obamacare picture with hammer and sickle and Obama photoshopped as a witch doctor with an ivory nose ring and headdress.

McKalip eventually apologized while blaming liberal activists for his woes and noting that he once held a career counseling day for black kids.

In any case, America is a place for second acts. And now McKalip is running for City Council in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Here’s one of his somewhat surreal campaign web vids …

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