John Bush comes off as a bit of a goober.
He’s compared abortion to slavery and claimed that a passport application form makes parents “subservient to the nanny state.” He casually drops the word “faggot” in speeches about local history. At a Senate hearing, he insisted that he did not intend to endorse birtherism.
But there’s also another side to the man. Bush, who was recently appointed to a federal appeals cour...