How Low an Intelligence Score is Necessary to be a Tea Party Republican?

Not sure, but it seems to get lower and lower. Here’s the start of a HuffPo piece on North Carolina Republican Bill Randall:

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Tea Party-backed candidate Bill Randall, who is vying to capture North Carolina’s 13th district U.S. House seat, recently speculated that there may have been “some sort of collusion” between the government and BP that may have caused the massive oil spill continuing to plague the Gulf Coast. “Personally, and this is purely speculative on my part and not based on any fact, but personally I feel there is a possibility that there was some sort of collusion,” Randall said at a press conference Tuesday. “I don’t know how or why, but in that situation, if you have someone from a company violating a safety process and the government signing off on it, excuse me, maybe they wanted it to leak.” “But then it got beyond what was anticipated, and we had an explosion and loss of life. And, oh man, now we have panic.”