Comparing the GOP Primary in TN-5 to others in the state seems like a mistake at face value.

The TN-8 race has become the single-most expensive race in the country with each candidate attacking the other two and pouring personal dollars into the race (Flinn, Kirkland and Fincher). TN-6 isn’t as ugly, but with 3 well-funded candidates running (Black, Tracy and Zelenik) and the two female candidates attacking one another, it certainly isn’t civil. TN-3 has a lawyer (Fleischmann), a law-enforcement officer (Gobble), and a former TNGOP chair (Smith) running for Wamp’s vacated seat as he runs for Governor. It isn’t as ugly as TN-8 or TN-6, but it still has the attacks and angry videos of a primary.

In TN-5, we don’t have much of that. We have 10 people running to take on Rep. Jim Cooper in November. The local media has basically stayed out of the race. Radio hosts haven’t given glowing reviews to any of the candidates, TV and Newspaper have largely been silent. A few blogs keep the politicos up-to-speed on the latest info, but we might be talking about 1,000 people that follow those blogs.

We have a local businessman that took a leave of absence to run for the seat. He has been backed by Gov. Mike Huckabee, health-care venture capitalists, a State Senator and State Rep, the Tennessee Patriot (2nd Amendment) and many others in his quest to win the GOP nomination (Hartline).

We have an entertainment attorney that claims to be a constitutional attorney as well. The main platform? A concurrent resolution to undo Obamacare. Completely false, yet the candidate continues to run on this platform. This candidate has been backed by Sarah Palin and a host of other DC names and groups (Heil).

We have a homebuilder than has supposedly spent 200k on Voter ID, but has also been called on by the FEC to answer some serious questions about their filings (Hall). This candidate has received no endorsements to speak of.

These are the supposed leaders in the race. Who really knows without a legitimate poll, but these three have emerged as the most talked about candidates.

At this point, it is an uphill battle for any of these three in the general election verus Rep. Cooper. However, only one has shown the ability to connect with voters strictly based on personality and convictions. Jeff Hartline has raised nearly 300k for a primary and has been fending off attacks from nearly every candidate in the primary.

Tennesseans are growing tired of this primary season. It’s time to nominate our best options for defeating a liberal agenda in November. Jeff Hartline deserves your vote.

In 1985, the good people of HarperCollins published a book by that same title. It’s a fun children’s story about a young boy and a mouse. The boy gives a cookie to the mouse. In return, the mouse asks for additional things until he eventually asks for another cookie. It begins with a glass of milk, then a napkin, and so on.

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Republicans. In one House race. What would you say? Is three too many? How about seven? Ten?

Try twelve. It’s astounding really. The link includes everyone that has officially qualified for the primary election. You may notice an additional name in there. One of the candidates decided not to run, otherwise there would have been a baker’s dozen.

Right now in Tennessee’s Fifth District there are twelve people running for the office currently filled by Rep. Jim Cooper. Of the twelve, the breakdown is really all over the map. Small business owners, an attorney, a couple of veterans, a mechanic, a banker, a health care practice manager, a general contractor, and more. In reality, it should be no surprise that this many conservatives are vying for the office. In a district that Obama won 56% to McCain’s 34%, Cooper won by a landslide of 43% in that same election. That’s quite a disparity between Presidential and Congressional.

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I have to give President Obama some credit. He fooled 66,882,230 Americans in 2008. “Change we can Believe in” is a campaign slogan for the ages. The irony of it all is that we all wanted to see change. Liberals wanted to continue to bleed the government dry. Conservatives wanted to see America return to its former glory. We couldn’t both win.

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This is my letter to my generation, the future generation of American leaders. I am 26 years old, an American citizen, and I am fearful for the future of my country. Allow me to explain.

I would be foolish to say I understand all of the minute details of the current healthcare bill awaiting passage in our Congress. It would be foolish to say I fully understand all of the moving parts necessary to get our economy back on track. It would be foolish to say I fully understand what President Obama has planned for our country.

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