Too candid for comfort?

Perhaps you recall Paul Hackett, the Marine reservist officer from Cincinnati who spent seven months in Iraq and narrowly lost his bid for Congress last year. His veteran status wasn't the only thing putting him in the headlines. He called the president a "chickenhawk" and told USA Today, "I don't like that son-of-a-bitch that lives in the White House."

Maybe he's one-upped himself. He would have raised some eyebrows just by saying that the 62 percent of Ohioans who voted to ban gay marriage are "un-American," as he recently did. But he also said this:

"The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious fanatics that, in my opinion, aren't a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden and a lot of the other religious nuts around the world."

That might cause some problems.