NATIONAL REVIEW endorses Republican candidate Linda McMahon for the Connecticut Senate seat held by retiring senator Chris Dodd - in a back-handed way.

First, the forehand:

The presumptive Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Connecticut is an inspiring business success who battled adversity and the competition to build an internationally recognized brand.

And then the backhand slap:

If decency means nothing, McMahon is the businesswoman par excellence. With her husband, Vince, she grew WWE [World Wrestling Entertainment] into a billion-dollar business. The company had to fend off fierce competition in the mid-1990s, when its future looked precarious. The McMahons prevailed on the back of those timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination, and risk-taking.

So the “timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination, and risk-taking” are okay only in pursuit of acceptable goals? What, pray tell, are acceptable “timeless entrepreneurial values of shrewdness, determination, and risk-taking?”

As for me, I like the idea of having a Senator who has actually run a business and created wealth, even if I personally never bought the product being sold (I’ve never owned an Apple product, either).