Dave Brat, Watergate Conspirator? Politico would like you to think so

This partisan piece in Politico is unsurprising. Sometimes for what it says, sometimes for what it doesn't say. It doesn't say anything about Democrats possibly taking the House. Politico presumes Republicans will retain the majority there. A really cute line attempts to subliminally link Brat with Watergate,

“It’s perhaps no accident that Cantor was defeated by an insurgent named Brat, an upstart conservative Roman Catholic who received a master’s degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, the alma mater of Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder. Brat’s platform: Washington is awash in corrupting cash, and it’s time for a change.”

1. Let’s make fun of his name, mature.
2. “insurgent,” “Brat,” “upstart,” “conservative Roman Catholic,” “Watergate conspirator.” Loaded language much?
3. “conservative Roman Catholic” Didn’t that sort of anti-Catholic bias die with JFK? No, only if you are an ‘enlightened Catholic’ like Mario Cuomo, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, etc. But a ‘conservative Roman Catholic’ can only mean that Brat hates women and is in favor of pedophile priests, right?
4. And since Brat attended the same college as Jeb Stuart Magruder (wait, don’t they only use all 3 names for serial killers? Unless I missed the subliminal between Brat and the Civil War general – of course! Brat also wants to sent African Americans back to the plantation!), of Watergate fame, Brat is also as tricky as one of Nixon’s henchman.
5. It mentions Dave Brat, the man who soundly defeated Eric Cantor only once. It gives his last name once. Seems to me that the first person to defeat the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives  in a primary since the Nineteenth Century deserves to at least have his name mentioned in a Politico hit piece.

It should be noted that Politico is one of the few places where readers might possibly know who Magruder and Stuart were or what Watergate was about. I’d wager that the majority of people who vote for Brat’s opponent in November will not know at least 2 out of 3 of those facts.