Are Republican political candidates born stupid or does the party line make them that way

Chris Collins, a Republican running for the House of Representatives from New York, made a fool of himself this week during a newspaper interview in which he cited reasons he would, if elected, work to repeal President Obama’s health care plan.

Republican idiot Chris Collins

"The fact of the matter is, our healthcare today is so much better, we're living so much longer, because of innovations in drug development, surgical procedures, stents, implantable cardiac defibrillators, neural stimulators — they didn't exist 10 years ago," he said. "People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things."

According to the American Cander Society, however, more than a half million people will die of cancer in the United States this year alone, including 39,920 from breast cancer and 28,170 from prostate cancer. Many of the victims would have been saved if the cancer had been detected early enough, but wasn’t because they were uninsured.