How can that be? Another Republican lunatic could enter the Senate to replace a gentleman.
Funny you should ask.
Let's assume Joe Donnelly loses to Richard Mourdock for the sake of argument.
There would be no addition of Republicans to the Senate, quite likely to be captured by Republicans in November. There would only be the loss of a Republican horse trader for another lunatic Republican.
But how would that be good?
Jump over the fold and maybe even naysayers will reconsider - or maybe not.
Maybe you would like to consider first that Sen. Lugar offered the worst imaginable idea for the nation when he ran for president.
Lugar wanted to replace the income tax with a national sales tax.
You think the super-rich have it good now with a flaky, leaky income tax? Imagine that sales tax. Boy would that ever grab the poorest citizens.
Our tax system is an atrocity now but it takes some kind of genius to make it far worse.
It appears the gawdawful current crackdown by our very unliberal president on medical marijuana is a kind of bipartisan thing that a Lugar could best engineer.
Who are these things good for?
Surely not liberals. The Great Compromiser sitting in the White House loves deals and not so incidentally loves liberals only before elections. The rest of the time they are a pain.
But there is no compromising with a Mourdock and his ilk.
And that is very good in my book.
And if Romney should win?
You think even the Human Weather Vane would have anything but trouble from another wild man in the Senate?
Your thoughts welcomed even if you can't be kind.
Best, Terry