"Silent Cal", the Democratic Version

 Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States was known as "Silent Cal". He was known as a man of few words. One popular legend was that a man seated next to him at a dinner said, "I made a bet that I could get you to say more than two words." Coolidge responded, "You lose." Asked why he attended so many Washington social dinner events which he obviously disliked , Coolidge responded "got to eat somewhere". When told that Coolidge had died, writer Dorothy Parker said "How can they tell?"

Fast forward to 2020 and we have a new candidate for the "Silent Cal" moniker. Cal Cunningham is running for the US Senate seat against Thom Tillis. Cunningham is now embroiled in a controversy of his own doing. He had an affair with a "political strategist" from California.  Just as an aside, one would think that a "political strategist" would tell the candidate that she is assisting, not to have an affair with her. Obviously, there is some political risk involved, but Cal is clearly a "Kennedy Democrat". A guy who brags about his military record has an affair with the wife of a paralyzed veteran. Readers are left to their own morals to judge these actions. 

While Cunningham admits this affair, he refuses to answer questions about any other affairs that might be waiting in the wings to be disclosed. By refusing to answer, I mean that he says nothing when reporters ask him about other women. Is silence really golden? Is this like the Joe Biden strategy on "packing the Supreme Court"? Do you have to elect him to find out the answer? Will Cunningham admit to any other transgressions after the election, if elected? He doesn't even bother to say, "I'm not going to answer that question.". He just doesn't say anything. 

Cunningham has never been this quiet before. He has been given millions of dollars by liberals to get his message out and win this Senate seat. You can't sling a dead cat without hitting a Cunningham sign. Then a few weeks before the election, somebody hits the "mute" button. So rather than "Silent Cal", we should be calling Cunningham "Suddenly Silent Cal". His voice is scheduled to return in early November.  Vote against "Suddenly Silent Cal" and get a happy ending.