A slew of toxic Swamp monsters lost their respective races on Tuesday that any decent GOP candidate, standard midterm shifts away from the incumbent part in the White House notwithstanding, would have won handily.
Lindsey Graham’s ditzy nepo-sister went down in flames; South Carolina, of all places, will now have a Democrat senator for the next six years.
Governor Greg Abbot, who once declared Texas “land for the Indian community”, took the L. (Texas, once a GOP stronghold and an electoral college bulwark for Republicans, is now effectively a blue state, with every statewide office held by a Democrat.)
But none deserved to go down in ignominy more, or are more emblematic of the rot in the political class, than pharma scammer dirtbag Vivek Ramaswamy.
Down Goes Vivek — Hard! Will the GOP Learn Any Lessons?
And it wasn’t particularly close, either — and definitely not for what has been a reliable red state for at least a decade: Democrat Amy Acton’s 52.31% to Vivek’s 44.38%.
Since its inception, the Armageddon Prose north star position on electoral politics is that 99% of politicians are greasy sleazeballs, a maxim vindicated in spades and only further vindicated with the progression of time.
So a lack of character in a politician is baked into the cake.
“Character” in politics only matters insofar as you can trust a politician to do what he says you (the voter) he’s going to do and what you (the voter) elect him to do. (They usually don’t.)
Still, just when you thought the sleazy business of politics couldn’t get any sleazier, Vivek has managed to lower the bar.
In the hands-down most shameless, vulgar campaign ad of all time, Vivek dispatched his minions out into the field to dig his opponent’s homeless and clearly deranged mother out of the car she was living in with her twenty cats to cut a video of her denouncing her own daughter, calling her a liar and urging Ohioans to vote for Vivek.
Vivek’s own senior campaign staff ardently urged him not to run it, but Vivek, being a sociopath, pulled the trigger anyway — and spent a million campaign dollars pushing it out on the Ohio airwaves until the brutal backlash forced him to pull it.