There is a wonderful article in the St Louis Post Dispatch:
www.stltoday.com/…
Which features an interview with long time friend of Eric Greitens, Ken Harbaugh.
Harbaugh and Greitens met on their first day at Duke in 1992, as part of the same scholarship program, and overlapped at Oxford for summer term. Both went on to serve as Navy officers; one as a SEAL, the other a pilot. In 2007, they co-founded The Mission Continues, a nonprofit based in St. Louis to help military veterans regain footing in society.
Greitens descent into bad craziness is rather breathtaking. Harbaugh said they’d both been excited about the promise of Barack Obama being elected. He said there was a large poster of JFK at The Mission Continues. Still, he wasn’t shocked when Greitens ran for governor as a Republican. It’s really the only way to get elected in Missouri politics.
Harbaugh said he soon became disheartened by incendiary campaign ads and the harsh tone of fundraising emails that seemed to threaten liberals. When Harbaugh challenged Greitens on it, he said, Greitens said you can’t make changes if you don’t win.
In other words, he was playing rural Missouri for suckers.
Harbaugh posted a brief video on social media, calling on Greitens to quit the Senate race.
Meanwhile, the Greitens campaign on Wednesday posted another ad, reprising one from the Missouri gubernatorial race in which he, once again, shoots a target and blows something up.
I certainly don’t know the disgraced former governor the way Ken Harbaugh does, but given Greitens background as a former democrat, and a somewhat progressive one at that, this is simply sociopathic. It’s as if the man will lie, cheat, and shred any supposed conviction he has ever had to appeal to the worst instincts of some of the worst people in Missouri.
It’s precisely what today’s Republican Party has become. A sham designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of the lowest common denominator.
Harbaugh said he often thinks of a conversation they had driving around St. Louis and Greitens wasn’t sure if he’d run for office as a Democrat or Republican. Then, he said, Greitens mentioned the idea of not running at all, to focus on being a good husband to Sheena and eventual father.
“I keep going back to the conversation,” said Harbaugh. “How different his life would have been if he had listened to his better angels.”
It really makes you wonder, was anything about Eric Greitens ever real? Or is he just a sociopath with an impressive intellect who has trained himself to say anything to please anyone to get what he wants?
In that case, he has become the perfect Republican of today.