Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, now all over the news after a volatile verbal exchange with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, is a habitual shape-shifter. Pundits disappointed that the Oxford-educated media hound is suddenly parroting pro-Russian idiocy haven’t been paying attention. Kennedy is for Kennedy, no more and no less.

Kennedy and I were fellows in the same class for the 1990-91 Loyola University New Orleans Institute of Politics. At the time, he was the studiously centrist (with the barest tinge toward center-right) special counsel to conservative, then-Democratic Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer. (Roemer switched to the Republican Party in March 1991.)

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