[dynoman]

It was a joke and in fun. Freepers were there, read the thread;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3405625/posts?page=9#9

[bramps]

It was a joke and in fun. Freepers were there, read the thread;
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That may concern me even more. Did he not know how that stunt would play in the media?

It will get legs and it will cost him support and votes.

So again I ask, rhetorically, why did he do it?