In another reality a person who caused the death of 29 men would not be considered a serious candidate.  But that ain’t the reality we’re in.

Former Massey Energy chief executive officer Don Blankenship (R) plans to run for U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), WCHS reports.

Blankenship served a one-year sentence in prison for “conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards.”

Look, I’m no fan of Joe Manchin, but Massey spent a year in a California prison after a jury convicted him of the explosion in 2010. He appealed and lost that, too.

He is currently prohibited from leaving Nevada until May 2018. He has a house in Nevada and is under federal supervision as a condition of his conviction.

Won’t that make campaigning in West Virginia kinda hard?

On the upside, he won’t be the worst guy in the Senate.