[Kuksool]

{the "breakthrough" candidate was the leftist lesbian Tammy Baldwin in the Madison House seat.}

Too bad the GOP couldn't convince Reggie White to run for that House seat. Maybe he could be talked into running for Bill Frist's Senate seat in 2006.

The fact that the GOP gave very little support to Ron Greer's Congressional campaigns was an outrage. If the GOP wishes to embark on minority outreach, then it ought to provide serious support to African-American candidates.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Too bad the GOP couldn't convince Reggie White to run for that House seat. Maybe he could be talked into running for Bill Frist's Senate seat in 2006."

As a Tennessean, I can tell you that ain't gonna happen. Both Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Zach Wamp are interested in the seat and it will probably go to one or the other. Harold Ford, Jr. will probably demand he be coronated after "gracefully" stepping aside in the last Senate race.

"The fact that the GOP gave very little support to Ron Greer's Congressional campaigns was an outrage. If the GOP wishes to embark on minority outreach, then it ought to provide serious support to African-American candidates."

It was an outrage, but I don't think that was an ideal seat for Greer to have run in. He was obviously not the Scott Klug-type of Republican that can win there. That was one reason why the GOP didn't loosen its pursestrings. I was similarly annoyed we didn't provide enough support to Lynette Boggs-McDonald in NV House-1, she was a much stronger candidate.