Dudchik asks whether Rich Lowry's scathing assesment of Linda McMahon's family business is some kind of signal to the GOP base that her candidacy is toxic. If it is some kind of veiled message, why wait until after the state party has nominated McMahon for U.S. Senate?
Regardless, Lowry's critique of McMahon and the World Wrestling Entertainment notes that political culture has come a long way since the days when Harry Truman career as a haberdasher was enough to draw scorn.
"If decency means nothing, McMahon is the businesswoman par excellence,'' Lowry writes in National Review Online.
But, Lowry argues, decency should mean something. "The WWE blends elements of Jerry Springer's show, the Victoria's Secret fashion show, Ultimate Fighting, and soap opera -- except it makes all of those forms of entertainment seem elevated by comparison. The best that can be said for it is that it represents the American id, although that's a rather stinging commentary on the nation's psyche."