"Mixed Feelings, Buddy. Like seeing Larry Wildmon going off a cliff...in my new Maserati."

My official, rational, considered position is that Evan Bayh's retirement is a bad thing, given the near certainty that he will be replaced by a Republican with a much worse voting record. My emotional reaction is that it's hard to be that upset about a quintessential centrist wanker leaving the World's Worst Deliberative Body.

...and as Matt correctly points out, his manner of departure itself constitutes a major act of immoral center-right wankery.

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LGM Corrections

In retrospect, we're rather glad that Colonel Mustard didn't take us up on the offer to make it interesting.

UPDATE [By SL]: Hey, when you're right 35% of the time...I'm sorry LGM readers were not properly informed.

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The Devil and Rand Paul

Just when you begin to think that it's literally impossible for Rand Paul's Senatorial campaign to get any more entertaining:

The gentleman behind the mike is Chris Hightower, Rand Paul's campaign spokesman. In addition to his affection for Satan, Mr. Hightower appears to have demonstrated an unfortunate aversion to "Afro-Americans." LOL!

As an aside, it really isn't all that surprising that white supremacists flock to Rand Paul and his daddy. Neiwart has detailed this in the past; the particular vision of libertarianism that Paul and his father propound is attractive to white supremacists, in large part because the supremacists believe that the federal government invariably acts in the interest of racial minorities. Anything that prevents the good white citizens of this country from keeping the darkies down is an affront to God, the Constitution, etc. The white supremacy is rather the point of the anti-statism, explicitly for some and implicitly for others.

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"I Swear, I'm Not Making This Up"

If nothing else, Rand Paul's quest for the Senate seat once held by Henry Clay will go down as one of the most entertaining campaigns in American history:

Thank you Jonathan. I met Jonathan a few months ago at a tea party over in Frankfort. The Tea Party Movement seems to be everywhere. In fact, the biggest crowds and meetings that I’ve been to in Kentucky have all been Tea Parties. I had to promise my family one thing when I went out on the road to campaign. I had to promise them that I would never sing. As you can tell, my voice is kind of raspy, so I’m not going to sing. But I do have the lyrics to a song I’d like to tell you. This is a song called Trees, by Rush.

It gets better from there.

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