The latest Bizzaro development in the race for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, the Arizona Daily Star today endorsed Jon Kyl for re-election.

Their reasoning? Kyl's been in Washington for 20 years, so therefore he clearly knows what's best for Arizona. The editorial claims Kyl has delivered for Arizona, without providing many specifics. Of course, Jon Kyl is the same politician who bragged about NOT bringing home the bacon for Arizona.

I suspect this endorsement is the result of a lazy editorial board who just took the candidates at their word without doing any digging to find out if what they were told had any basis in truth. It also makes one wonder how much of an influence the Star's new hack political reporter, Daniel Scarpinato (a former very vocal college Republican at the UA), had in the endorsement process. The other possibility here is that Jim Pederson gave a piss-poor performance during his sitdown with the ed. board.

Pederson may be a weak candidate, but he'd be one hell of a great Senator, and much better than the sniveling, conniving liar we have right now.