Nevada GOP Assemblyman: Gosh, I Wish They Go Back To Them Slavery Days!

A Republican jokes about slavery. Real laugh riot!

More stuff from the wrong side of the First Amendment.

So Reince Priebus, how's that diversity tour?

Is the rainbow looking a lot brighter?

Some dumbass Nevada Republican assemblyman wishes that we go back to them good ole days.

Of course, he was joking!

He said that he'll be "very glad" to vote for slavery if they would do so. Once the junk food media got wind of it, he decided to blame them for allowing his freedom of speech to get the best of him.

The Raw Story reports that Jim Wheeler of Gardnerville, Nevada was speaking to the Storey County Republican Party when he made the remarks last August, although they are only now coming to light.

“If that’s what they wanted, I’d have to hold my nose, I’d have to bite my tongue and they’d probably have to hold a gun to my head, but yeah, if that’s what the citizens of the, if that’s what the constituency wants that elected me, that’s what they elected me for,” he said. “That’s what a republic is about.”

Now, Wheeler said to the Sun, “liberal operatives” are spreading the video in an effort to smear him.

The Las Vegas sun also reports that the assemblyman was referring to a blog post by a conservative commentator named Chuck Muth, who asked during Wheeler’s candidacy, “(W)hat if those citizens decided they want to, say, bring back slavery? Hey, if that’s what the citizens want, right Jim?”

Wheeler told the audience of Republicans, “yeah I would.”

The remarks have kicked off a firestorm with Republicans and Democrats alike rushing to denounce Wheeler, who rode the 2010 wave of tea party fervor into his spot on the state assembly.

The Associated Press quoted a statement by Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval that said, in part, “Assemblyman Wheeler’s comments are deeply offensive and have no place in our society. He should retract his remarks and apologize.”