http://www.ricksikma.com/

This guy is my distant uncle.  He was running for U.S. Senate for the GOP in Alaska.  He wasn't a very likely candidate (just look at the activity on his blog, for example).

Basically, what I want to know is how you feel about him and his perspective on the issues, even if there is very little actual material to go by (he seems to have two sites, one here and another here).  If you've been following my posts here, you can probably figure out how I feel about it, but I mostly want someone from America to give his view on things.  Also because I'm planning on visiting him someday.

Here's some more info: http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rick_Sikma.htm , http://www.godvoter.com/rick-sikma-alaska.htm and http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Sikma

I think this automatically means he is ridiculous.  It's not like society itself was hardcore shifting in the 60s, oh no, it's because prayer was removed from schools.

Yeah, I know.  That's probably the most inane thing on the page.  I'm not going to stop there, though.  I want some perspective from an American on what type of people would hold these views.

sikma family reunion gonna be hella awkward.

We actually already met.  It's kind of an interesting story, and I'm not sure if I've told it yet.  On September 10th, 2001, he was on his way back to America from mission work in Africa.  My dad, who was at the time investigating the extent of our family tree, found out about him and sent him an e-mail.  Turns out he was going to make a landing at Schiphol Airport before flying back to Alaska.  My dad had work, however, so the elusive meeting between them could not take place.

Since I mentioned the date September 10th, you probably know where I'm going with this.  When he went home a day later, his plane was turned around and sent back to the Netherlands because of the WTC attacks.  He was all alone in a country he had never been in and decided to call my dad to ask him if he could stay for a while.  And he did, for a week.

At the time I was not interested in politics at all.  My dad is very politically savvy and on the far left of the spectrum, so I asked him later if the two of them had talked about it, and he said that he eventually became too shocked by his views that he decided to leave it be.

He was a very friendly man, though.