Former White House aide and former and current head of Breitbart News Steve Bannon has made it no secret that he is trying to defeat Republican senators whom he sees as supporters of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. But the way Bannon is going about it suggests that he has something less than perfect political pitch.

One of his projects, according to Breitbart News and the New York Times, is persuading Erik Prince to run in the Republican primary against incumbent Sen. John Barrasso in Wyoming. Prince, the founder of the now defunct military contracting firm Blackwater, is a controversial figure who will, if he runs, no doubt be demonized by the media as he has been — often unfairly, in my view — in the past. Among his assets are significant military and foreign policy experience, starting with his service as a Navy SEAL, and the ability to self-finance (the family-owned auto parts company was sold for $1.35 billion in the 1990s). He is the younger brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.