Georgia Republicans embrace the racist

Nathan Deal is a birther.

By using his position as an elected representative to publicly insinuate President Barack Obama isn’t American despite ample proof to the contrary, he has declared himself a paranoid, right-wing racist who cannot accept that a dark-skinned man with a non-European name is legitimately American.

Yesterday Georgia Republicans decided they want Deal to lead our state government for the next four years.

So between now and the election, I hope state Republicans and Democrats have spirited arguments about economic recovery plans, tax policies, health care, gun policies, state immigration enforcement, transportation, water and education.

But let’s not waste our time debating whether the Georgia Republican Party is an association of proud bigots. That fact was loudly and proudly declared yesterday.