OK, then.

David Postman solves the riddle of Jack McGavick's transcontinental matriculation at his new blog...

Jack, McGavick's eldest son from his first marriage, graduates from high school out of state.

Fair enough. Ours is a blended family with kin across state lines, too, so I understand how those things happen, and how challenging they can be to manage.

Still, you'd think that one of a handful of targeted GOP Senate campaigns would inspire some calendar flexibility from the White House if the candidate really wanted to stand next to the Preznit in Seattle. Of course, it could be that the DC GOP has given up on McGavick. It wouldn't, in fact, be surprising.

Still, that campaign bio seems a little deceptive. If Jack's "going off to college" it won't be from here.

And isn't Jack one of "the boys"?

The only reason this has any relevance to me is that McGavick would deny some Americans, including my daughter, the simple right of marriage equality in order to "protect" marriage. He'd actually write discrimination into the US Constitution to "protect" marriage. That puts his own marital history squarely in the realm of public interest, and the evasiveness his official website reflects about that history puts his character squarely in question.

Of course, I'm sure he's glad he got that second marriage in before the gay people used all the marriage up...