Today's North Carolina Senate Primary Pits Rand Paul Against Mitt Romney

The Republican Establishment is trying to make a come back after badly losing two presidential cycles in a row with feeble and extremely unpopular establishment candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Today's primary in North Carolina is their shot to nominate the Speaker of North Carolina's widely hated state House of Representatives. He has two anti-Establishment right-wing candidates opposing him, including Greg Brannon, who has been endorsed by Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Paul, Thomas Massie (R-KY), Ann Coulter, Erick Erickson, the Tea Party Patriots, FreedomWorks, and 2 seditionist gun groups, the National Association for Gun Rights and Gun Owners for America, that excite the extremists in the South's GOP base.

Just a few hours before Rand Paul's Brannon rally yesterday in the Charlotte area (Tillis country), Mitt Romney chirped in with his backing for Tillis. Jeb Bush, Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove are also backing him. The Republican/Chamber of Commerce Establishment is hoping to avoid a bloody, costly July 15 run-off between Tillis, who's trying to sound mainstream and Brannon, who's glad to sound anything but mainstream. Conventional wisdom holds that moderate Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan would have an easier time beating the extremist Brannon, but Tillis is so associated with the detested and dismally failed General Assembly that more astute observers think Hagan is better off running against him. CNN, of course, is always a good place to go for tone-deaf conventional wisdom:



More at http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/05/todays-north-carolina-senate-primary.html .