To the editor:

With especially stiff competition this year, winners of the 2022 LWRP (Lunatic Wing of the Republican Party) Awards are:

Third place: House Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Speaking of the Capitol riot, Clyde stated that “if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from Jan. 6, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.” Five people died, more than 100 officers were injured.

Second place goes to Bruce Bostelman, Republican member of the Nebraska legislature. In a televised public debate, Bostleman stated he was “shocked” to learn children were dressing like cats and dogs at school with administrators providing litter boxes. Bostelman repeated the thoroughly-debunked nonsense that students “meow and they bark and they interact with their teachers in this fashion.”

I know what you’re thinking — “Who could possibly top that for lunacy?” The envelope, please. This year’s grand prize winner is Robert Regan, candidate for a Michigan legislative seat. At a panel discussion, a member noted that it’s time for Republicans to move on — to accept the 2020 presidential election outcome. Regan replied: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.'” He also stated the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a “fake war just like the fake pandemic,” COVID vaccines were part of a planned government “genocide” and shared a meme that said feminism is “a Jewish program to degrade and subjugate white men.”

Fortunately, this form of lunacy is not inherited. Regan’s three daughters urged people not to vote for him. Regan won the March primary.

George J. Bryjak

Bloomingdale