NO, I won't agree that he is a Kook, but I think his small town upbringing influences his inability to speak ill of a Black man, even though those same Blacks refused to let him caucus with the Congressional Black Caucus.
It is sort of a bastardized version of Reagan's 11th commandment.
I don't subscribe to his view here, but having been raised in a 100% white small oklahoma town, I can understand it. Eufaula, where J. C. grew up, was a poor integrated community, where cotton picking was a big industry until the lake was filled.