Rep. Todd Akin calls Obama a “flaming socialist”

Missouri Rep. Todd Akin has staked out his persona in the run-up to the 2012 Senate election: He’s the Michele Bachmann/Sarah Palin guy who says strange, overly broad, mildly crazy things. He’s already said that liberals have a “hatred of God.” And he had a strange rant in the program for the St. Charles County Lincoln Day in March.

And now he’s back with another statement that might have Republicans scratching their heads (and seriously considering Sarah Steelman) before the primary. PoliticMo reports that Akin spoke at a Greene County Republican event, when he dropped this little gem about President Obama: “Obama [was] the most liberal of the Democrat senators. I mean — he is a flaming socialist.”