We covered the Carl Paladino story at LGF when he was caught sending around emails full of overt racism, misogyny, and hard core pornography (including bestiality), last April: Tea Parties? Racism? No Way!

Here’s a screenshot of a video he forwarded (now deleted from YouTube for terms of use violation), titled “Obama Inauguration Rehearsal,” which was previously posted at the neo-Nazi site Stormfront (the link goes to a Google search page).

Today I’m seeing a lot of people speculate that he was nominated for governor of New York despite this almost unbelievable background.

But I have to ask the question: what if he was nominated because of this racist, sexist insanity?

What makes anyone think the teabaggers who voted for Paladino don’t approve of this stuff?