An admirer in Oklahoma political hand writes:

Back in 1994, when I was told that we had an actual GOP candidate in the old Second Congressional district in eastern Oklahoma, I was skeptical. We hadn’t even been competitive for that gerrymandered seat since 1920. Then I met Tom Coburn. Then the voters met him (those he had not already delivered anyway) and elected him to three terms in the House. Then he kept his self-imposed term limit pledge and came home to deliver more babies. The man is definitely Oklahoma’s gift to the GOP.