If SenatorRomney has any of the discernment or care for probity he claims, he will see that SenMikeLee is a much better man than EvanMcMullin. Romney should get off the sidelines and provide an endorsement, writes QuinHillyer.
The incumbent is the thoughtful and solidly conservative Republican Mike Lee, a Reaganite constitutional scholar who clerked for superstar Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The challenger is shape-shifting “independent” Evan McMullin, who has the official endorsement of the Utah Democratic Party.Romney claims to be a “good friend” of both candidates, so he is endorsing neither. This is specious.
If Schumer’s Democrats retain an effective majority in the Senate, President Joe Biden can keep loading the courts with extremely liberal judges. If Schumer’s Democrats keep power, Congress as a whole will not be able to bring to heel Biden’s lawless executive agency appointees and their bureaucratic fellow travelers.
There also are unwritten expectations in politics. One is that a senator of one party should support his in-state Senate colleague if that colleague is of the same party. In Pennsylvania two decades ago, for example, the far-less-than-conservative Arlen Specter endorsed his strongly conservative colleague Rick Santorum, and Santorum in turn provided a significant boost to Specter’s own 2004 reelection.
McMullin, on the other hand, shows the political constancy of a firefly’s light, flickering on and off while frenetically darting across the landscape. As detailed previously, he has abandoned or obfuscated his earlier, conservative positions on abortion, guns, the Supreme Court, a border wall, critical race theory, and healthcare. In tawdry fashion, he also has cashed in, big-time, on his former service in the CIA, which he may well have oversold.
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