You may never have heard of Mark Roberts. The White City man is running as the Independent Party candidate for Greg Walden’s 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. While his chances of winning may be nonexistent, he’s already drawn considerable attention to himself with his disparaging remarks on Twitter about Melania Trump.

Roberts appears to be a man who doesn’t understand the value of saying nothing from time to time.

His Monday night tweet about the first lady, suggesting she’s a prostitute, was disparaging, to put it kindly. Someone should tell this overgrown child that his tweets evaluating women solely on their appearance are wrong. The reaction to Roberts’ comments has been negative, at best.

In fact, a quick look at his website makes it clear that Roberts, who is clearly no fan of President Donald Trump, has taken a page from the president’s playbook, setting aside the good manners filter that most adults try to live by, and not letting a little thing like common sense stand in the way of a zippy statement. Thus, among other ideas for boosting the state’s economy, he wonders why no one has put up a “mini-Rodeo’esque Drive Boutique” on the Oregon-California border to sell luxury items to overtaxed Californians. That would fix the state’s economy, for sure.

It’s no wonder that by Tuesday night the Independent Party of Oregon had come up with a tweet of its own, distancing itself from Roberts: “IPO has the following statement regarding recent defamatory comments about the first lady by Mark Roberts: Roberts won the IPO nomination for congress because he ran unopposed. His eligibility and ballot access is subject to Oregon law, not party rule.”

Fortunately, Roberts is likely to come in dead last in 2nd District election in November. While The Bulletin has yet to make an endorsement in the election, each of the two major-party candidates, Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner and Republican incumbent Greg Walden, is preferable to Roberts. Don’t waste your vote on him.