One used to say that seeing is believing:
(Watch from 2:24.)
Cindy Hyde Smith switched from being a Democrat to Republican in 2010. They say that in the South people are slow, but why did it take Cindy so long to figure out that after 1964 she needed to be in the Republican party, because of her “conservative values”?
It’s a weird and discordant thing to say in the first place, displaying a shocking ignorance of the blood-soaked history of her state’s civil rights battle.
That’s one interpretation but I think it’s much more likely that she knows “the blood-soaked history of her state’s civil rights battle” and was reminding her base that she really is one of them despite her earlier flirtation with the Democrats. (h/t @lastroth)
EDIT: Thanks a lot @cervantes. I was silly enough to actually take your advice and watched from 2:24. At least it showed that although Hyde-Smith is, in the words of @benthere, consistently and unapologetically stupid, she is not in the same league as Gov. Bryant.
Not only is Cindy Hyde-Smith stupid, she’s consistently and unapologetically stupid.
Mississippi is the drain around which our politics have circled the last fifty years. She’ll win by double digits.
Her flirtation with white supremacy would be appalling if it weren’t also extremely predictable.
I really hope she loses the runoff in 10 days.
Nothing new here. Richard Shelby R-AL
In 1986, Shelby won a tight race as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate. In 1994, the day after the Republican Revolution in which the GOP gained the majority in Congress midway through President Bill Clinton’s first term, Shelby switched party affiliations and became a Republican. Shelby was re-elected by a large margin in 1998 and has faced no significant electoral opposition since. He is currently the dean of the Alabama delegation.
Her arm slung around a cattle rancher, Hyde-Smith expressed her affection for him in a bizarre way to a group of her supporters: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be in the front row.”
Admittedly, I don’t know the first thing about public hanging protocols, but wouldn’t the State be handing out invites and not some random cattle rancher? Or do they sell tickets on-line down there and people turn it into some weird-ass date night?
Her statement makes no sense to me whatever she meant, except I know it’s incredibly racist and demeaning.
It appears Hyde-Smith has been so busy campaigning that she hasn’t had time to get her dentures replaced at a librul rural free clinic.
Inertia? Like her pea brain?
Give Kate a raise! Great piece of writing!! 
Some hangings are public executions carried out by governments. During the Age of Sail, pirates were routinely hung, and those hangings were indeed publicized by the government, primarily in service of the alleged deterrent effect of capital punishment.
But in the American South, hangings were a manifestation of mob rule in the Jim Crow era. A great many of these hangings were impromptu affairs: a white encountered a black in suspicious circumstances, and immediately raised the hue and cry over some alleged crime. A mob would form and immediately string up the black person. These executions were not official acts of the state, although they positively did enjoy the tacit approval of the state.
As I see it, the only scenarios I think Little Miss Hitler was envisioning were the Jim Crow type. Executions performed by the state would not be advertised by word of mouth. Impromptu vigilante murders necessarily would be. She sees herself as the willful recruit of a lynch mob.
A gleeful executioner has no place in government.
They’re catching up, though. Mississippi finally got around to officially ratifying the 13th Amendment in 2013.
In Mississippi, public hangings are not necessarily state-sponsored events.
slack jawed yokel
Person maintaining little to no discernible speaking skills often associated with one who fornicates with barn yard animals.
You don’t telegraph your affections for one of your supporters by confirming that you’d love to accompany him to a public hang? Isn’t “I’d go to a public hanging with you” a well-worn idiom?
Just because the last public hanging in the US (of a black man, who unfortunately, committed a murder; would that it was the hanging of an innocent black man; so much more satisfying) occurred 26 years before Hyde-Smith was born doesn’t mean she didn’t feel a strong sense of nostalgia. Unless, she confused public hangings with public lynchings that she may have attended. But what the hell. Hyde-Smith, like her base knows that when imposed on the “right” people, public hangings and lynchings are terms that stress a distinction without a difference
And now she’s taking a campaign contribution from a white supremacist. She a sweetie, alright!
Why, a few more IQ points and she might get right up there with Marsha Blackburn, the drag version of Jethro Bodine!
I keep waiting for her to say, “It’s Shake n’ Bake - and ah helped!”
I loved the governor’s attempted dodge about how everyone in politics says things they regret later. Yeah, Phil, but they usually regret it because it causes them to lose an election. I’ve never seen a fucking Republican regret saying anything after they’ve won, being soulless monsters and all.