Tennessee's Next Governor

Tennessee's sitting Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, is term-limited, meaning come November that my home state will be electing a new leader. There are three serious Republican contenders, Zach Wamp, Ron Ramsey, and Bill Haslam, and one Democrat, former Governor Ned Ray McWherter's son, Mike. So in my assessment, we have two legacy candidates, one from each party- McWherter who likely would not be considered viable had his father not been Governor, and Haslam who would be no where were it not for his father's several hundred million (or more) dollars. I also sense from his tenure as Knoxville's mayor that Haslam is a down the line moderate in the line of Lindsey Graham and John McCain, a Rockefeller Republican whose values conflict with the down home aims of our state GOP, but I have no doubt that if Haslam uses his vast resources and a split occurs in the conservative vote between Ramsey and Wamp allowing Haslam to win the primary that he will gain the grudging support of Tennessee's right wing who will not want a member of Barack Hussein Obama's party to win the general election. I see this as the likely outcome- a GOP Governor Haslam approximating the weak as water middle road approach taken by Lamar Alexander serving the next four years in a state more conservative than he is with the nation in opposition to Obamaism tilting right.