The Republican undead walk amid Us. Just look at Scott Pruitt.

In the original, brilliant Night of the Living Dead, the deceased residents of a small town in rural Pennsylvania are reanimated by the explosion of a space probe returning from Venus.

However, the Republican Undead walk among us because the very large explosion of campaign money that occurred in 2010 enables them to do so.

I mean, honestly, Sarah Palin is running for Congress. Eric Greitens, who resigned the governorship of Missouri amid allegations that George Romero would have found excessive, is running for the U.S. Senate in that state.

And now, the latest entrant in the How Can We Miss You If You Won’t Go Away? Derby is Scott Pruitt, the ethically challenged former head of the Environmental Protection Agency in the previous administration who’s running to replace the retiring Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate. From the Washington Post.

Needless to say, Pruitt shouldn’t have been within 50 miles of the EPA in the first place. Covering the confirmations of Camp Runamuck nominees was a clear look into the engine room of the corporate money power that drives conservative politics.

The nominees who weren’t vandals were incompetent. And many of them were both. Pruitt was one of the latter.

During the committee hearings into his nomination, Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon called attention to a letter that had gone out under Pruitt’s letterhead when he was Oklahoma’s attorney general. It was essentially cut-and-pasted from a letter Pruitt had received from an oil company.

In his capacity as OK AG, Pruitt was the target of 19 different lawsuits, and, when the committee asked him if he would recuse himself as EPA administrator from any decisions relating to the people suing him, Pruitt attempted to dazzle the committee with bullshit.

But he had the votes in the Senate. Now, he wants to become one of those votes himself. The Undead will walk the corridors forever.