Voted Too Early

If you have already exercised your franchise and voted early in the primaries, you should ignore the rest of this column. The race for the Republican nomination for Governor of Tennessee is reaching crunch time, and I have absolutely had it with legacy Bill Haslam and his phony campaign. Haslam sat in a TV spot with his wife and said he would not engage in "negative ads" and later in the very same day this commercial rolled: an ad with Bill Haslam complaining about his opponents lying about him and his Daddy's company that started the barrage of attack ads Haslam fired at his major GOP opponents. Bill Haslam is a first class Don Sundquist-Lindsey Graham RINO with all that implies, and he is in high dudgeon about Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey telling the truth about him. I had been torn (and to an extent still am) about who to vote for between the two honorable candidates but now am favoring casting for Congressman Wamp because he has never voted for a tax increase. I am not even sure I would not go third party if Haslam succeeds with a split vote in buying the nomination.