His wheels came off in October

In an excellent Spectator Online column that takes up several subjects we have discussed here, Patrick Hynes finds a senator whom he can contrast with Minnesota’s Senator Mark Dayton to Dayton’s advantage, at least for the moment: “The day the wheels came off.”

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