Writing for the Washington Post, David Wasserman, the Cook Political Report's House analyst, makes the astonishing claim that "never have I met any candidate quite as frightening or fact-averse as Louisiana [GOP] state Rep. Lenar Whitney, 55, who ... is running for Louisiana’s open 6th District." What is the basis of Wasserman's horror? These two items:
When I pressed Whitney repeatedly for the source of her claim that the earth is getting colder [my emphasis], she froze and was unable to cite a single scientist, journal or news source to back up her beliefs.
To change the subject, I asked whether she believed Obama was born in the United States.... [S]he replied that it was a matter of some controversy.
Such garden-variety dunderheadedness Wasserman finds exceptionally "frightening"? She sounds like a Republican moderate to me.