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Lamar! is no babe in the woods. He learned at the foot of Nixon. Tactically-speaking, he did something brilliant. He essentially got EVERY Republican official of note (and the money people) to back him, and in doing so has headed off any potential challenger that has the means to defeat him. Now, if he had to play dirty, he could do that, too. Since we have WIDE open primaries, an abomination if there ever was, he can have Democrats flood in to vote to halt any Conservative threat (or fund a ringer if need be, a purpose Van Hilleary served in ‘06 in the Corker-Bryant primary). Corker has done the same thing. Both are the poster boys for closed primaries.

The irony is that Lamar! is a rank hypocrite who stated in his own book, “Two terms and OUT !” Well, kids, he served his two, and it’s time to take what will be (in January 2015) his nearly 75-year old ass out of the Senate. Other than by retirement or death, it’s going to be near impossible to blast either of those two phony, smirking RINOs out of their seats. As for me, I will not rubber stamp their treachery. I voted for Lamar! once in 2002 (only in the general), since I didn’t want my Democrat Congressman (Bob Clement) as Senator. He did not earn my vote in 2008. I voted once for Corker (again, only in the general), because I didn’t want Junior Ford in the Senate. I voted for Corker’s Democrat opponent in 2012 who ran to Corker’s right on social issues (the Dems wrote their guy off as a right-wing “hater”).