Do pay attention to the man behind the curtain

An editorial in today's Courier-Journal:

Having been caught on a recording, discussing with his laughing staff a potential opponent’s bouts with depression, Sen. McConnell faced the cameras and the microphones and tried to change the story from one of bloodless calculation — his and his campaign’s — to one of third-rate, Nixonian bugging of his campaign headquarters — “the left’s,” or so he said without offering a shred of proof.

...The senator has avoided answering specific questions about the substance of the recording, sticking to his talking points that his wife’s ethnicity has been attacked and that this is the way “the left” operates. The magazine says the recording, provided by an anonymous source, did not come from a bugging operation. The FBI has been contacted. Theories are flying. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, all may be fair in love, war and politics, but there is something indecent about a seasoned pol who has held the same office since 1985, who ostensibly has his own record to run on, turning to an opponent’s mental health battles — something that one in four Americans experience in a given year — as a campaign opportunity.