The Herald's peculiar fascination with Congressman Roskam

Every two years the Herald dusts of its tepid endorsement of Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) and updates it for his latest challenger it can barely mention by name. They always start with the disclaimer he's too far right on social issues, without mentioning he's a climate change denier; without mentioning he throw 20,000,000 off Obamacare if he could; without mentioning he'd withdraw abortion services for all Sixth District women if he could; without mentioning his A rating from the NRA; without mentioning his championing tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and needy.

What does the Herald like about Roskam? They claim he's "ready to work across the aisle, regardless who becomes president" even though he tacitly supported the despicable Republican attempt to delegitimize President Obama for the past eight years, and supported the outrageous 2013 government shutdown that inflicted a political crisis while draining $24 billion from the economy. If that's working across the aisle, I'd like to know real partisanship is like. In ten years all the Herald can point to is his work on Medicare fraud, which for Roskam, is simply part of his meme to stigmatize the government safety net. In sum, the Herald touts that after ten years in the House, they appreciate "his strong knowledge of the issues and his work ethic on Capitol Hill."

The Herald says nothing about foreign policy where Roskam has spent the last decade demonizing Iran, including working to sabotage the Iran Nuclear Agreement which likely averted war with Iran. Roskam is a war party hawk, relentlessly backing our trillion dollar wars in the Middle East and moaning about American weakness over the President's measured pulled back from his predecessor's criminal wars.

Most sadly of all is the Herald's omission of Roskam's support for moral degenerate Donald Trump, calling Trumps racism, sexism, xenophobia, and bullying "slap and dash" and touting he's still going to vote for the 'wild card."

Inexplicitly, the Herald Editorial Board can't differentiate stalwart conservatism from reckless radicalism.