It is a great day to be a Republican. The only disappointments I have are that we now have a dem for governor in TN (although the outgoing Republican gov was a true RINO) and we lost our House seat to a dem.
BTW, the reason we lost that House seat is that Van Hilery was our Rep and he decided to run for governor. I still can't believe he lost to the dem. And it looks like the dems are going to push through a state income tax.
I'm still new to Tennessee, but I'm not too afraid of the income tax issue. I think the issue got so much negative publicity and many of those behind the income tax issue were successfully rooted out and exposed (not all, but some of the main ones) that it will be a while before anyone really tries to pass an income tax.
I'm not happy that Bredesen won and I think Van Hilleary would have made a wonderful governor, but whatever Bredesen might have otherwise tried, he won't be able to get away with it because people are extremely focused on the income tax issue.