A Louisiana liar, in the flesh

I get on a lot of strange email mailing lists, maybe because I support candidates from a range of political parties — Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Natural Law.

I have been getting fund-raising appeals from Louisiana U.S. Senator John Kennedy, no relation to the former president.

He’s on talk shows a lot and gets coverage on TV because of his very folksy manner of speech.

Makes you forget he graduated magna cum laude in political science, philosophy, and economics from Vanderbilt University, was president of his senior class, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and earned a Bachelor of Civil Law degree with first class honors from Oxford University.

That’s Oxford, England, not Oxford, Miss.

So with bona fides like that, why does he have to resort to lying, to catfish his supporters?

“Friend,” he writes, “There’s not any other way to put this: I’m losing.

“I just talked to my team and my Radical Left opponent has all the momentum and all the steam heading directly towards election day and I need help and I need it fast,” he says.

“Look, the crazy wokers are bound and determined to unseat me and push Nancy Pelosi’s Socialist Agenda down the American people’s throats. We can’t have a Left-of-Lenin Neo-Socialist putting the greatest country in human history in danger.

“I need your help. I missed my fundraising deadline in February, and without your help, I’m toast again in March.”

He says, ”I’m losing,” but as the polling (chart) shows, Kennedy has a 39% lead over his Democratic challenger. He has a clear majority of 53% and that’s not likely to change.

So when I see him now, instead of folksy, I just see a whiner and a liar. Also someone stupid, to lie about something so easily checked.