This reminds me of the two candidates we had last cycle that ended up torpedoing their own campaigns - wasn’t there one in Missouri and another one - (something about you can’t get pregnant with rape?) Opposition research is out there recording their every word and sure enough two Republicans stepped in it.
I wish it doesn’t affect all of us but it does.
Todd Akin. Actually in his case, he was repeating a talking point that a lot of people in the pro-life movement used to believe in the 70s and 80s. Evidently it had been thoroughly debunked since, but I didnt know that. I’m guessing that the interviewer was also hostile and deliberately trying to steer him into saying something embarrassing with gotcha questions. They succeeded. I thought that conservatives were a little hasty throwing him under the bus(how I hate that expression).
Of course political candidates who want a government paycheck and may be making policy need to be held to a higher standard than private citizens like Bundy.