Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Republicans on Tuesday that they have not wrapped up their midterm battle to reclaim the Senate majority. “There are places that are competitive in the general election," he said at an event in Kentucky. “So you can’t nominate somebody who’s just sort of unacceptable to a broader group of people and win. We had that experience in 2010 and 2012.”
Which flaky candidate might he have in mind? Perhaps he is thinking of Mehmet Oz, the TV doctor infamous for hawking substances of little or no proved medical efficacy, who is arguably the favorite in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat.
Or perhaps he’s thinking of Eric Greitens, the Republican candidate for Missouri’s Senate seat who was forced to resign as governor of the state in 2018 over allegations of campaign finance impropriety and sexual misconduct. Greitens remains snared in a web of scandal arising out of a custody battle with his former wife, who alleges, as the Missouri Independent reports, that he “knocked her to the ground and took her phone and keys in an April 2018 incident, loosened a tooth when he struck one of their children in 2019 and used psychological control techniques, including threatening suicide, to keep her silent.” (Greiten denies the allegations.)
Or perhaps McConnell might have been referring to Herschel Walker, the Republican running for Georgia’s Senate seat whom McConnell himself has endorsed. Walker has admitted to being...
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...