Jon Tester’s GOP Senate opponent shot himself in the arm in a national park

[Ted King]

Jeez, why would a Navy SEAL feel the need to exaggerate about his service? Just being a SEAL is impressive enough in terms of his patriotic bonafides. Of course, being an excellent warrior doesn't imply anything at all about their ability to govern, but being a SEAL does understandably burnish the sense of trust you would have in the political candidate. So what he did with it blowing up in his face really hurts that trust that he would have had for being a SEAL. He would have been so much better off not lying about it. Dumb.