Dateline South Dakota:  What does it mean that a Republican candidate for US Senate, who is probably not apt to win, likes Che Guevara, and cites him as a kind of role model?  Little, except a blog picks it up and it carries on into a viral land.  I note some commentary who lived through the 1960s that the Che Guevera wavers was basically a fashion statement — devoid of political content, but what we’re left with on the Democrats versus Republican scales is sort of the same as “Alinksyites”… or the only people citing Alinsky in national politics are “movement conservatives”, weary that the liberals are using these Alinsky tactics and needing to adopt the “rules for radicals” to advance their agenda.

Dateline South Carolina:  All right, another Primary Challenger against Lindsey Graham.
In the state Senate, Bright has filed legislation that would make it a crime to enforce the new federal health care law in South Carolina and exempt S.C. guns from federal regulation. He recently gained national attention when he advocated for South Carolina to issue its own currency.
AND
State Sen. Lee Bright announced his candidacy Tuesday for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate, calling incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham “a community organizer for the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Yes, it’s that type of election.  Even if you have a bit of sympathy for going at Lindsey Graham on his Interventionism Foreign Policy, he slides into a kind of … sigh.

Dateline Tennessee:  No candidate to run against Lamar Alexander, but a notice nonetheless.
During your tenure in the Senate we have no doubt that you voted in a way which you felt was appropriate. Unfortunately, our great nation can no longer afford compromise and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous. America faces serious challenges and needs policymakers who will defend conservative values, not work with those who are actively undermining those values. Quite honestly, your voting record shows that you do not represent the conservative values that we hold dear and the votes you have cast as Senator are intolerable to us. Furthermore we have serious doubts about your ability to fix our problems since you have played such a significant role in creating them. […]
The letter also makes reference to Alexander’s Little Plaid Book, a short work of political advice he published in 1998. The letter said he should follow the book’s advice to “serve two terms, then get out,” rather than fall into a “mire of hypocrisy.”
Hm.  I kind of have a 4 term rule… or, a quarter of the century is enough, but…
The letter is signed by 20 different groups, most of them county-level Tea Party organizations in Alexander’s state.
And
Therefore, we urge you to conclude your long and notable career by retiring with dignity instead of fighting against a serious conservative primary challenger who would expose to all Tennessee voters the actual history of your voting record.
Freaks on Parade.

Dateline Texas.  Louie Gohmert urged to run; declines.

Dateline Kentucky.  A race heats up, Matt Bevin knocks about Mitch McConnell and joins in with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Rand Paul on a Government Shutdown idea.   The primary campaign’s purpose is to frame McConnell righward… for the apocalyptic talk that the Tennessee Tea Party crew are speaking of.   Mitch McConnell has his own ad up.  It is surreal as always…  but it’s what you get when your campaign manager is “holding his nose”, and the candidate embraces it as “what he’s got”.

Dateline Georgia:  Here’s the “Liberal Media” everyone is talking about:
Recent polling shows the two candidates Republicans are most anxious about — Reps. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) and Paul Broun (R-Ga.) — leading the pack. Whoever emerges from the clown-car primary, with seven candidates and counting, will face a candidate Democrats are high on in a state where shifting demographics benefit their party.
“Clown Car Primary”…
As always…
Another Georgia Republican strategist pointed to recent votes on the Farm Bill and some appropriations bills as evidence Broun was already having an impact on the race.
“All of the candidates better be careful that they stick to their own values and not be driven to the hard right because of one candidate in the race,” she said.

Meanwhile in Wyoming… Elizabeth Cheney is off and running… and faltering badly.

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