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Crackpot Utopia: The Year in Republican Crazy, Part 12

• Arizona Republican protests busload of YMCA Campers• Crazyspeak of the Year nominees No. 15: the Impeachment Variations (group nomination)• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 16: NM Rep. Steve PearceIn Part 12 we pay tribute to Arizona GOP congressional hopeful Adam Kwasman, the genius who decided it would help his primary bid to vent media outrage over a busful of supposedly terrified illegral-immigrant kiddie laborers -- who turned out to be, literally, YMCA happy campers.

Crackpot Utopia: The Year in Republican Crazy, Part 8

• Things to come: Forward into the past! (11 Presidential Dream Tickets)• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 9: Former republican VP nominee Paul "Crazy Eyes" Ryan• Crazyspeak of the Year nominee No. 10: Bryan Fischer of the American Family AssociationYou Can't Make This Stuff Up Dept.: On FOX "News" for March 3, "America's Mayor" makes known his preference for Vladimir Putin over President Obama: "Putin makes a decision, and he executes it, quickly. . . . That's what you call a leader." (See Presidential Dream Ticket #2.)

Schedule note: Crackpot Utopia: The Year in Republican Crazy, Part 8 -- coming up at 6pm ET/3pm PT

You Can't Make This Stuff Up Dept.: On FOX "News" (March 3), "America's Mayor" rates Vladimir Putin over President Obama: "Putin makes a decision, and he executes it, quickly. . . . That's what you call a leader."Sorry, minor technical difficulties here, but we'll be back with Part 8 of Noah's "2014 in Review" at 6pm ET/3pm PT. -- Ken#

Crackpot Utopia: The Year in Republican Crazy, Part 6

• And now a word about South Carolina• Pat Robertson and his magic asteroid• I'll have a pack of Twizzlers and an IUD to go, pleaseEight-year-old South Carolinian Olivia McConnell (see No. 1, Exhibit B) thinks she's so-o-o smart just 'cause she's smarter than the whole of her state's GOP. Okay, she's only eight, so she doesn't realize that this isn't all that remarkable a feat.