It looks like Steve Stockman has company in the nut house corps seeking to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.

The new guy is Chris Mapp, a Port O’Connor businessman who is running for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, right along with Stockman.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/GOP-Senate-candidate-from-South-Texas-slammed-for-5255976.php#src=fb

Mapp said that South Texas ranchers should shoot “wetbacks” and called President Obama a “socialist son of a bitch.”

Well.

Cornyn said this in response: “I recognize this is a free country but that’s not the sort of way to gain people’s confidence that you care about them and you want to represent their concerns in the halls of Congress.”

Do you think, Sen. Cornyn?

I almost am speechless. But not quite.

It seems as though the debate keeps taking these intermittent radical right turns. Candidates keep popping up — and popping off — with these off-the-wall comments. They want us to take them seriously.

It’s impossible to believe they expect Texans or any Americans for that matter to believe they have the country’s best interests at heart when they advocate such idiocy in public.

As Robert Stovall, Bexar County GOP chairman, said of Mapp’s comments: “That is way out of bounds and I can’t imagine many people in Texas, much less Texas Republicans, voting for that guy.”

I hope he’s correct.