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There are a few in the NC FReeper gang who repeatedly find it necessary to attack and belittle people like Vernon because of his "style." I'm not quite sure what their problem with him might be. They will mouth the selfsame issues, in many of the selfsame ways that Vernon does, but when he does it, it rouses their ire. I suspect it is because he had the temerity to rise through the ranks of the NCGOP without "doing time" or asking permission of the establishment. The same folks who repeatedly attack Vernon for his ads, his persistence in running for office, and his unconventional campaign style inevitably jump on the bandwagons of RINO after RINO and loser after loser. They seem to prefer the pretenders who claim to be conservatives, but who are actually just the same old Democrats and leftists without a core principle to their name. The terrible irony is that the pack of losers and reprobates they support have no better record than Vernon does, sometimes even worse. And it isn't just Vernon, they aim their vitriolic bile at people like Sue Myrick and Fern Shubert as well. You can be sure that if the candidate isn't a glad-handing, go-along-to-get-along waste of space, these folks won't have a bit of use for him (or her). Of course, as long as these folks are around and claim to hold a "mainstream" position in the NCGOP, it will continue to be the petty, ineffectual organization that handed away the first GOP majority in the General Assembly since reconstruction.

Vernon may be his own worst enemy (I know him personally), and he might never win another election, but in every campaign he brings up issues that need to be discussed. That is as opposed to the smarmy idiots who kiss babies and mouth platitudes and then either lose the election or win and immediately sell us down the river. For that reason alone, Vernon is a treasure and a credit to our political process.

Should Vernon surprise everyone, including me, and win, he will be a breath of fresh air in the Congress and they will have a bushel of trouble on their hands. Trouble they so richly deserve, I might add. Of course our sour FReeper friends will continue to grouse and moan that Vernon is an "embarrassment" to Republicans everywhere. Personally, if that ever happens, they can go stew in their own bitter juices for all I care.