Paging Chris Fitzsimon, Jim Morrill. Need a re-write.
If the official grow-government/MSM story line was that booga-booga scary “tea party candidates” like Tim D’Annunzio were butting heads with the GOP establishment, it must be double-secret booga-booga scary that much more significant Tea Party figures have endorsed D’Annunzio’s opponent — and supposed candidate of the GOP establishment — Harold Johnson.
You see, I was never entirely certain that the Tea Party groups which endorsed D’Annunzio — We the People of Cabarrus and the Sand Hills — were 100% apart and separate from the D’Annunzio campaign. I simply took it at face value that they were.
Fitzsimon, however, charged in to declare that their endorsement made D’Annunzio the “darling” of the entire Tea Party crowd across the district. But I know several of the folks who are endorsing Johnson were major Tea Party activists first, active for 8th CD candidates second.
Former Charlotte city council candidate Craig Nannini, for example, was filling the Uptown government center with anti-tax activists back in April 2009 to kill a nascent plan to ask the General Assembly for authority to double the transit tax. He has now endorsed Johnson.
Which I guess means that Nannini is double-secret booga-booga scary, which by extension now makes Harold Johnson the double-secret booga-booga candidate and Tim D’Annunzio, by default, the candidate of the GOP establishment. Which means that if D’Annunzio loses, the GOP establishment loses and the Tea Party wins — right guys?
Cmon guys, don’t quit. Isn’t this still fun? OK. How about this — Tea Party on both sides, no matter who wins the runoff — Tea Party wins in the 8th CD is the headline.
Guys….guys?
Bonus Observation: I still think — as of this moment — Larry Kissell wins in November regardless.
