Congressional candidate Jim Schneller has gotten his 15 minutes of fame. In fact, he got a whole hour from the Daily Times editorial board to explain why the voters of the 7th district should send him to Washington.

Anyone who watched the live stream yesterday saw what we saw. A nice and naive man who genially entertains all sorts of strange conspiracy theories but otherwise hasn't a clue about what it means to be a legislator.

Schneller still isn't sure that he was used by the Lentz campaign to play spoiler to Republican Pat Meehan. Like Bryan Lentz who is still trying to figure out whether he regrets using Schneller in such a way, Schneller is trying to figure out if he was used at all.

Pathetic.

If Jim Schneller had managed to get the signatures he needed to get on the ballot all by himself, he might have been the spoiler the Lentz campaign was hoping for. But in quietly helping him, the only thing Lentz spoiled was his own reputation for acting honestly and above board.