BREMEN, GA. – Neal Horsley, the Creator’s Rights Party candidate for governor of Georgia, told Alan Colmes on his radio show the other night that as a young man he had sex with a mule.

That admission has gotten some play in the media, as one might expect, but it’s the physical harm he told an examiner.com reporter he was willing to do – and almost did do – to his son in the name of his far right-wing beliefs that makes even the bestiality seem like, well, kid’s stuff.

Needless to say, Horsley is not a serious contender for governor, but he has enough supporters and is media-savvy enough (Hannity & Colmes, Alan Keyes Is Making Sense, Today, The Big Story and now Alan Colmes) to bring far more than a ripple of attention to him and his belief system, such as it is:

From the Colmes interview:

“Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I…”

AC: “You had sex with animals?”

NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”

AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”

NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”

AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”

Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and “and I don’t think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I’m saying?”

Horsley said, “You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You’re naive. You know better than that… If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it.”

Funny stuff, no doubt said to both provoke and self-parody. But Horsley is more than a harmless jokester when it comes to provocation, as he proved with The Nuremburg Files, a website he created in 1997 that listed the names and locations of various doctors who performed abortions throughout the United States, and crossed their names off when they were murdered, injured or run out of business.

Horsley was eventually sued by Planned Parenthood over the site, which no longer exists, but Horsley is still trying to make his mark and his views have hardly mellowed.

In response to a question by Dylan Krider of examiner.com whether, if he won the governorship and followed through on his desire to have Georgia secede from the Union, could he actually take up arms against his own son, who was a sergeant in the Army, if federal troops were sent to quell a secession. That’s when he tells Krider the following story.

One day, Horsley is in his room arguing with his son (his family debates his extreme positions), and finally the son loses it.

“He literally attacked me,” Horsley said. “He weighs 220 pounds, like a bulldog, and he said to me, ‘Don’t say another word!'”

The second time his son slammed him down, when Horsley got up he had a pocket knife out.

“My son looks at me and says, ‘So, it’s life or death, huh?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, life or death son. Don’t come back until you’re ready to apologize to me.’ The point is, I was one foot from killing my own son, or hurting him really, really bad. If he would have attacked me again, I would have stuck him. Or cut him or sliced him or done something to stop him.

“That’s the point, your hypothetical has literally already been worked out with me, and that’s what makes me different from the other candidates for Governor. They understand I’m not like no politician they have looked at, ever. I am prepared to do a John Brown. I’m not prepared to do an Abe Lincoln and talk out both sides of my mouth and try to get a majority together. I’m looking for the people who are prepared to go with me and take over the foundry, then set up shop and prepare to fight to the death. I’ll do it.”

The qualifications to run for governor of Georgia are pretty much in line with other states. You must be a U.S. citizen for 5 years, resident of the state for the 6 years preceding the election and at least 30 years of age. Horsley qualifies. His current site can be seen here.