Bryant is perhaps most famous for stirring up controversy by posting an image on his official campaign website of Osama bin Laden and (then-)presidential candidate Barack Obama, with the caption saying “the difference between Obama and Osama is just a little B.S.” Bryant is not very good at perceiving or drawing distinctions. A firm opponent of government regulation or overreach, Bryant is opposed to same-sex marriage (“perversion”, according to Bryant) and has supported a Constitutional amendment that would outlaw such marriage. Yeah, exactly.
And predictably, he thinks global warming is a myth. But then we have already established that Kevin Bryant gave up on thinking and reasoning a long time ago (if we pretend that he ever possessed that gift).
Moreoverr, Bryant is a creationist who believes that the Universe was created in a literal six days approximately 6000 years ago. As a creationist, Bryant received some attention for his (and Mike Fair’s) concerted efforts to derail an eight-year-old South Carolina girl’s reasoned proposal that the Woolly Mammoth ought to be the South Carolina state fossil – according to Bryant, he stalled the billnot because he didn’t want the mammoth to be a state fossil, but because he“just felt like it’d be a good thing to acknowledge the creator of the fossils.” He later submitted his own amendment to the bill describing the Columbian Mammoth as created on the Sixth Day with the beasts of the field. His efforts were, fortunately, ultimately futile.
Diagnosis: Mindless savage and repugnant piece of rot: hateful, evil and stupid. But as the saying (Mencken’s) goes, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, and Bryant was elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.