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GOP Rep Eric Cantor Distances Himself From Nazi Uniform Wearing Candidate Rich Iott

10/11/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor has gone on the defensive regarding the case of GOP candidate Rich Iott. Cantor, who is Jewish, was discussing the issue of GOP extremism with Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz on “Fox News Sunday.” Cantor only mildly condemned Iott noting that his days of donning a German Waffen SS uniform ended three years ago. Iott has also been scrubbed from the Republican Young Guns website.

Cantor stated “What we have got now is a new crop of young leaders energized to go to Washington for the right reasons. Now Debbie [Wasserman Schultz, Cantor's co-panelist] went and launched into her attacks as to some of the reports about candidates that are running, particular the one in Ohio having to do with Nazi re-enactment. She knows that I would absolutely repudiate that and do not support an individual who would do something like that.”

These include, of course, ‘young leaders’ who want to make homosexuality illegal again and ban abortion even in the case of rape and incest.

Wasserman Schultz urged Cantor to articulate his refutation of Iott and he finally stated “I’m doing it right here. I’m doing it right here Debbie. You know good well that I don’t support anything like that.”

Iott’s past involvement in Nazi reenactments has cause some discomfort for the Republican Party as they try to distance themselves from the more extremist views within their own party including people who are openly antisemitic, racist, homophobic, and anti-Mormon. Iott had a slim chance of beating Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur, but that seems to have now become a next to no chance of winning.

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