Yesterday, the U.S. Senate race in which conservadem Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) is defending his seat got a lot stranger. Failed Rethuglican candidate and former convict and murderous mine operator Don "Big Shit" Blankenship announced that he would run on the November ballot as the nominee of the Constitution Party, a far-right, states rights party. The catch, for now, seems to be a West Virginia law, passed last spring, that precludes primary election so-called "sore losers" -- a group to which Big Shit clearly belongs -- from running in the general election. Big Shit's vowed to take the matter to the courts to get on the November ballot, where he would likely siphon votes from his Rethuglican nemesis, West Virginia's Attorney General and New Jersey carpetbagger Patrick Morrisey. The Rethuglican primary featured Big Shit and Morrisey competing for which one could be the most like their cult leader Donald "Rump" Trump.
We fondly hope that Big Shit realizes his goal of getting on the ballot. His propensity for making crude and racist comments (like those concerning his nemesis, human/turtle hybrid Sen. Mitch "Missy" McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao, with her "China family") is a journalist's and pundit's dream. He seems to be angrier at the Rethuglican establishment represented by Morrisey and McConnell than he is at Manchin, who must be happier than a possum in a compost pile.
Grab some popcorn (not to mention a jug of West Virginny moonshine). It's going to be an interesting race if Big Shit's on the ballot.
UPDATE: Aw, shucks!
(photo: Inside every flag-wearing politician, there's a felon hiding.)
