Mr. Mifflin, these are not character assasinations. This is a primary, and this primary is doing exactly what primaries are designed to do: vet candidates.
If they vetting suddenly doesn’t go your way, them’s the dice.
There’s vetting of candidates and then there’s screeching and bitching. C. Edmund does the latter. Some other folks are doing the vetting. If you don’t know the difference, that’s your tough luck.
Explaining it as “not going my way” is junior high playground behavior.