Post by Logan on Jun 22, 2016 2:16:10 GMT -6
As the GOP's anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win?
HASTINGS, Neb. — One afternoon in the spring of 2010, a few years before he made a name for himself as Donald Trump's most prominent Republican antagonist, Ben Sasse went to his former high school to wrestle.
He was a college president at the time, not yet a U.S. senator. His old coach had asked him to give the team a pep talk; Sasse, then rounding the corner on 40, decided to throw on the gear and see whether he could still hold his own.
He couldn't.
Lunging at the ankles of his more agile sparring partner, Sasse fell and caught his ring finger on the mat, snapping the bone backward and tearing the ligaments. A spectator who saw the finger jutting out at a horrific right angle ran out of the room to throw up. It still hurts, Sasse says, when it rains.
His wife, Melissa, wishes she had known his plan, so she could have talked him out of it. Sometimes, she says, he needs reminding that not every fight is worth it. "He's got a need for competition," she said recently. "Also he's an idiot."
Read more: www.omaha.com/news/politics/as-the-gop-s-anti-trump-ben-sasse-picked-a/article_288b2de8-3712-11e6-be28-63495152c092.html
HASTINGS, Neb. — One afternoon in the spring of 2010, a few years before he made a name for himself as Donald Trump's most prominent Republican antagonist, Ben Sasse went to his former high school to wrestle.
He was a college president at the time, not yet a U.S. senator. His old coach had asked him to give the team a pep talk; Sasse, then rounding the corner on 40, decided to throw on the gear and see whether he could still hold his own.
He couldn't.
Lunging at the ankles of his more agile sparring partner, Sasse fell and caught his ring finger on the mat, snapping the bone backward and tearing the ligaments. A spectator who saw the finger jutting out at a horrific right angle ran out of the room to throw up. It still hurts, Sasse says, when it rains.
His wife, Melissa, wishes she had known his plan, so she could have talked him out of it. Sometimes, she says, he needs reminding that not every fight is worth it. "He's got a need for competition," she said recently. "Also he's an idiot."
Read more: www.omaha.com/news/politics/as-the-gop-s-anti-trump-ben-sasse-picked-a/article_288b2de8-3712-11e6-be28-63495152c092.html