legitimate concern

Are you exhausted by the media coverage of the current presidential election? Most likely. But have you actually learned much beyond how a candidate campaigns, feels about campaigning, or the now often-overused phrase "creating a narrative" for a candidate?

AlphaPatriot has an extensive report from Tom Leatherwood’s speech before a meeting of the Tennessee Firearm Association in Memphis. Leatherwood is a Republican 7th District challenger to Congressman Marsha Blackburn:

Warning: political content.

I read with a little amusement Sharon Cobb’s recap of last night’s civil Republican debate.  On the whole, she’s got a pretty good eye for these things, and understands Republican politics better than many Republicans.  This part was the most interesting to me:

The rancor that Democrats everywhere exhibit when the topic of voter identification arises is enough to make one’s head explode. Bill Hobbs notes the potential for mass voter fraud in the wake of the theft of complete voter records from the Davidson County Election Commission. Such is a legitimate concern. Even without that example of the most unbelievable gross negligence by the Commission,

Is Mike Huckabee getting the Harriet Miers treatment?:

A conservative counter-revolution is breaking out in the talk radio universe and on prominent conservative blogs.