Interesting, yet somewhat bizarre column by Dana Milbank in today's Washington Post. It's an interview with a "GOP Senate Candidate" who talked frankly with reporters yesterday as long as he could be anonymous:
The candidate, immersed in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country, sat down to lunch yesterday with reporters at a Capitol Hill steakhouse and shared his views about this year's political currents.Which of the clowns could it have been? I thought Chafee at first, except for this:
On the Iraq war: "It didn't work. . . . We didn't prepare for the peace."
On the response to Hurricane Katrina: "A monumental failure of government."
On the national mood: "There's a palpable frustration right now in the country."
It's not an ideological matter. Even as he berated the president, the candidate allowed that he opposes a pullout from Iraq, agrees with Bush's veto of human embryonic stem cell research, and supports constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and flag burning.Reading the piece, you get the sense you're dealing with a real self-hater:
He spoke of his party affiliation as though it were a congenital defect rather than a choice. "It's an impediment. It's a hurdle I have to overcome," he said. "I've got an 'R' here, a scarlet letter."Santorum?
