Chickens Coming Home To Roost For Reed
For those of you who share my interest in the fate of one Ralph Reed, candidate for Lieutenant Governor in my home state of Georgia, you might want to check out a piece I did for the Washington Monthly, just out today.
The bottom line is that Ralph finally appears to be in deep trouble, not just because of his continuing embroilment in the Abramoff scandal, but because, well, a lot of Georgia Republicans just don't like the guy, and haven't for years. Some of it has to do with the disastrous campaign he helped run for another candidate for Lieutenant Governor back in 1998, which helped drag down the entire GOP ticket. And some of it has to do with his behavior as Georgia state party chair in 2002, when he took a little too much credit for a big year, and disrespected gubernatorial candidate Sonny Perdue a little too much for his own good.
My own conclusion is that Ralph is probably going down, if not in the August primary, then in November, even if he doesn't get a lethal visit from the process servers in the meantime. We'll know soon enough, but this is clearly a guy who is having to live with the consequences of his past misdeeds, ethical and political.
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