Heck, this week, I even said that Inglis, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham, was a grown-up compared to his fellow Washington GOPers — Reps. Gresham Barrett, Joe Wilson, and Henry Brown, and Sen. Jim DeMint. (Wilson, Brown, and DeMint all signed Barrett's letter to President Barack Obama, urging the prez to refrain from transferring Gitmo detainees to the Charleston Naval Brig in Hanahan.

I was wrong. Inglis has chosen to sit at the children's table.

For months, Inglis has criticized the tea party movement, calling the movement too anti-government and libertarian for his tastes and citing the teabaggers' anarchic and angry tendencies.

But now Inglis has decided to partner up with gubernatorial candidate Barrett and term-limit hypocrite Jim DeMint in condemning the transfer of Gitmo detainees to the Naval Brig in Hanahan.

And while Barrett is largely jockeying for votes in the governor's race (and attempting to win over the teabaggers that heckled him in Greenville over his pro-TARP vote) and DeMint is trying to retain his position as the foremost anti-government blowhard in the Senate, Inglis is against the transfer of detainees to the Naval Brig for what sounds like a damn good reason — we've already spent $300 million providing these guys with bachelor pads at Gitmo.

In a conference call with DeMint, Barrett, and Ben Fox, spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford, on Friday, Inglis said, "It's just nuts to not make use of the hundreds of millions of dollars that we've spent to make Guantanamo a top-quality prison facility. It just defies logic that we would close it ..."

He added that such a transfer would "introduce a lot of risk for American citizens by bringing very dangerous people for trial when the very same trial could be had at Guantanamo."

And while all of that may be true, the problem with Gitmo is this: it's a public relations nightmare. Yes, it's not Abu Ghraib, but it's pretty embarrassing, what with all those allegations about detainee abuse and torture.

Inglis' solution to all this: President Obama should invite world leaders to tour Gitmo and show them what a peachy-keen place the detainment center is. Heck, perhaps they'll be so impressed they'll want to buy a time-share. Somehow, I doubt it.

Think of it like this: You've got a 1993 Ford Bronco. You love it. But over the course of the last eight years, you've had to take it to the shop every other month and let's say you're dropping $300 a trip. At what point, do you go, well, it's time to trade in the truck and get a new one? Um, about eight years ago? Exactly.

For more on the whole Naval Brig/Gitmo detainee controversy, check out Robert Behre's article in today's P&C.

Tomorrow, I'll try to post an even more trivial post about Friday's conference call. Of course, that'll all depend on how much beer I drink today. There's a lot of college football to watch today.

Well, this morning, [*] decided it was a good idea to notify Barrett's Twitter followers that they had "just received this disturbing message from @redstate" and then encouraged those followers to sign the petition Barrett has posted at KeepTerroristsOutofSC.com.

The thing is, the RedState writer seems to confuse a show trial with a fair trial. Read on:

Today Barack Obama is going to announce that the terrorist mastermind of September 11th, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent to New York City for a criminal trial in a civilian court.

In that trial, the terrorist will get all the rights afforded an American citizen in a criminal trial, including the right to a fair trial, the right to a taxpayer funded attorney, the right to review all the evidence against him, potentially including classified intelligence matters, the right to exclude evidence against him including, potentially, any confession obtained through enhanced interrogation techniques, etc.

At best, this will be a show trial fit not for the American Republic, but a third world kleptocratic totalitarian regime.

Barrett couldn't have employed [*] a moment sooner.

And according to a new video from the McMaster campaign, the AG would take on folks like Wynne, the ACLU, and anybody else who thinks that the separation of church and state should, well, stay a separation.

Even worse, McMaster doesn't seem to mind that any such defense would be a waste of taxpayer money, based on the Wynne case and the recent "I Believe" license plate ruling. He simply wants your vote in the Republican primary.

According to our very own Will Moredock, this is how the Wynne case went down:

In 2001, Wynne, a practicing Wiccan, sued the town of Great Falls over the invocation at the beginning of town council meetings. Wynne asked that the prayers not be delivered "in the name of Jesus Christ" or that alternative faiths be heard at invocation. She offered to lead such a prayer, in her capacity as high priestess of a group of about 35 Wiccans in the area. The Chester County town of 2,100 refused her request, and Wynne went to federal court.

But with the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union, she prevailed over the next four years in the U.S. District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The town appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case. The council ceased praying in the name of a Christian deity and was even ordered to pay Wynne's legal expenses.

Oh. And in case anybody needs to be reminded: Henry McMaster was, until very recently, a member of a white folks-only country club.

Anyhow, here's the post:

Joe Wilson A Hit At Capitol Hill Tea Party: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who famously yelled out “You lie!” during a s... http://bit.ly/2NSLD

And it gets even funnier. See, when you click on the URL in the twatter post, it goes to an article, allegedly penned by Joe Wilson with more or less the same text from the twit post:

Joe Wilson A Hit At Capitol Hill Tea Party
by Joe Wilson on November 6, 2009

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who famously yelled out “You lie!” during a speech to Congress by President Obama, just spoke to the Capitol Hill Tea Party, receiving massive applause immediately as he came to the podium.

Who does Joe Wilson think he is? Bob Dole? The Rock? Timmy?

And frankly it was the boost the Upstate Republican needed to win the hearts and minds of the red meat crowd; for months now, he's been criticized for supporting the TARP bailout by the Teabaggers and 9/12vers, who've taken over the GOP in the Palmetto State.

Now, he's bought a new domain to show everybody just how strongly he feels about the possibility of a Gitmo transfer: WWW.KEEPTERRORISTSOUTOFSC.COM. The domain name goes directly to an online petition urging President Obama to not authorize the transfer. The letter reads:

Mr. President:

The people of this state have already made it abundantly clear that any plan to move terrorists to our soil is unacceptable. I strenuously object to the potential transfer of known terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to any federal or state facility inside the State of South Carolina.

Furthermore, we believe bringing known terrorists to South Carolina endangers our state’s citizens and makes them potential targets for future terrorist attacks.

I strongly urge you, Mr. President, not to transfer any more of these known terrorists to American soil and I would support any legal or legislative remedy opposing terrorist transfers to the State of South Carolina.

According Network Solutions, the organization that overseas domain name registration, Under the Power Lines, the firm handling Barrett's web operations, bought the domain at 4:15 p.m. today.

And while Haley agreed to sign Barrett's we-don't-need-no-Gitmo-detainees-in-S.C. letter to the president — she doesn't want those guys here either — she wasn't entirely supportive of Gresham's penmanship either. Here's what Haley said:

However, calling on candidates for Governor to join you in a letter to President Obama, rather than asking your colleagues in Congress — who are actually in a position to prevent this potentially dangerous situation — to do the same, strikes me as little more than political grandstanding.

And it gets better:

I would suggest writing another letter to President Obama that might do even more good. Please ask the President to stop using taxpayer dollars for the TARP bailout. As you were a supporter of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, adding your voice to the chorus of conservative opposition to that continuing waste of tax dollars might actually prove helpful.

Of course, Haley's outburst probably does very little to increase her chances at securing the Republican nom for governor. This is a race between Barrett and S.C. AG Henry McMaster. Haley has a lot of work ahead of her to catch up to these two.

Now before you get all anti-PC PC, and Lord knows this post will likely attract a fair amount of I-may-be-white-but-I'm-a-victim-too tomfoolery, consider this bit from a press release from the attorneys representing the plaintiffs before getting all in a huff:

"The Court noted that 'white employees burned a cross in the roll mill department and covered their heads in hoods,' a supervisor hung 'a chicken with a hangman's noose in another black employee's workstation,' and 'repeated racial slurs, nooses, and similar items hung in the roll mill department, and racially offensive graffiti on bathroom walls."

Not good.

Closer to home, a group of current and former Nucor Berkely workers have claimed that this type of behavior has also taken place at the Huger, S.C., mill. According to a press release from Alabama-based law firm Wiggins Childs, Quinn & Pantazis and Charleston-based firm Derfner, Altman & Wilborn:

"[W]hite supervisors and employees frequently referred to black employees as 'nigger,' 'bologna lips,' 'yard ape,' and 'porch monkey.' White employees frequently referred to the black employees as 'DAN,' which stood for 'dumb ass nigger.' These racial epithets were broadcast over the plant-wide radio system, along with 'Dixie' and 'High Cotton.' Monkey noises were also broadcast over the radio system in response to the communications of black employees. The display of the Confederate flag was pervasive throughout the plant, and items containing Nucor's logo alongside the Confederate flag were sold in the plant's gift shop. Additionally, several e-mails that depicted black people in racially offensive ways, such as by showing them with nooses around their necks, were circulated by various employees.'"

According to The Post and Courier, an appeal from Nucor may keep the case from going to trial for years or it may hit the court next year.

Of course, Tumpy's denial seemed to contradict earlier statements made by himself and associate Russell Munn on the Carroll Campbell and Associates website in the press release section:

"The addition of our new partners clearly demonstrates our commitment to politics and public policy in South Carolina. We plan to continue our goal of building a premier lobbying practice in this state," says Carroll Campbell, chairman of Carroll Campbell and Associates.

Munn followed with a statement of his own:

"I could not be more delighted to have a core group of accomplished lobbyists in our firm. The skills and reputations of our partners add to our already substantial lobbying capabilities."

Prior to the publication of last week's column, I sent a link to the press release with the above-mentioned quotes to Brent Littlefield of the Campbell campaign.

Now those quotes and the press release in which they were included are apparently no longer on the site. Feel free to look for yourself.

As for the original press release, you can click on the screen grab image below.

Upon the South Carolina junior senator's return, he declared that the coup was good — and the people rejoiced because they knew that it was good, despite the current state of marshal law in which they lived and the daily curfews that restricted their activities.

Now, Reuters, AP, et al, are reporting that Honduran officials are in the middle of negotiations to return Zelaya to power.

Hmm. Maybe things weren't as hunky-dory as DeMint claimed.

Unlike the majority of world leaders, including the big BO, South Carolina's junior sensei DeMint supports the military overthrow. In fact, he returned from a meet-and-greet with Honduras' new leaders, who have imposed marshal law on the civilian population.

I don't know about you, but I seriously doubt DeMint will be honored with a Nobel anytime soon. But I could be wrong.

Which brings us to a letter we recently received at the CP HQ purportedly from Honduras. I can't vouch for the veracity, but it's worth sharing nevertheless. Here goes:

Mr. Haire, I live in San Pedro Sula, in northern Honduras. I cannot comment on your description of Sen. DeMint as a far right reactionary in your article Jim DeMint is a blowhard (Aug 5,2009). I do not know enough about him, South Carolina's politics, nor about you. But what I can tell you with 100% certainty is that in our case, Sen DeMint is on the right side.

Our ex-president Zelaya was for a time surreptitiously maneuvering to impose upon us a Chavez/Castro type dictatorship. Eventually, since every institution (Congress, Supreme Court, Catholic and Evangelical churches, business groups, 4 political parties as well as his own, etc) lined up against his ruse, his maneuverings became flagrant breaches of our Constitution and violations of court rulings that contravened his dictatorial aspirations.

You affirm so assertively, as the Grand Inquisitors from the ‘international community’ have done, that it was a coup d'etat without even taking the time to carefully (or at least superficially) study what happened. Perhaps if you did, you would know that scholars in jurisprudence and international law at the Law Library of Congress, after studying Zelaya’s removal for 3 months, came to the conclusion that his impeachment had been executed according to rule of law dictated by our Constitution.

I assume that to you, we are nothing more than a banana republic; therefore we do not have the institutional capability to impeach a president following the rule of law. I live here Mr. Haire. I was witness to Zelaya's chaotic, erratic and above all, abusive administration. So this time I can vouch that Sen. DeMint is actually in the side of democracy and freedom.

Even if you find this too implausible, checks and balances actually worked in this banana republic and Sen. DeMint is helping us that it keeps working.

Well, apparently, Gov. Mark Sanford has learned a jedi mind trick or two from old Ben Kenobi. Check out this report from The State concerning a recent encounter between the Luv Guv's driver, a trooper, and Obi San Kenobi himself:

In the video from a dashboard camera, Lance Cpl. R.S. Salter asks the driver, "You got a good reason for running 85?"

The agent from gets out of the car and walks toward the cruiser, credentials in hand and tells Salter he is driving the governor, to which the trooper replies, "Not a really good reason to be speeding."

"Tell him that," the agent says, walking back to his car.

Walking around to the passenger side of the sedan, Salter peers inside and greets Sanford. The two shake hands, Salter returns to his cruiser, and the agent drives off.

This are the not the grounds for impeachment you're looking for. Move along.

Only now, the folks at El Cid found out that the design they've been using is wrong, thanks to the recent discovery of what is likely to be the actual flag those war-hungry cadets "fought" under.

As for why experts believe this to be the flag, the P&C knows:

The replica the school has been using has a smaller white palmetto tree on a red background, with a white outward-facing crescent in the upper-left corner. The direction of the crescent is important, Curtis said, because an inward-facing crescent was, at the time, a common symbol of secession in the Charleston area.

The fact that the flag in Iowa carries the secession symbol makes it more likely that it is the flag that flew on Morris Island, he said.

Now today, the P&C reports that the Citadel's Board of Visitors voted to adopt the Morris Island flag as its new spirit flag.

I mean, talk about timing. The country is divided in a way that it hasn't been in decades — with some right-wing entertainers and not-so fringey political groups calling for a revolution. And many folks believe that a lot of this strife is racially motivated — surprise, surprise, some saltines are bothered that a black man is president.

And in the midst of all this, the Citadel, a state-supported school, has decided that it's a good idea to choose as its, um, spirit flag, a tattered rag declaring South Carolina's secession from the Union and a symbolic fuck you to Uncle Sam and the American ideal that all men are created equal.

The South Carolina brand just keeps getting better and better.

Here's hoping the folks at Boeing don't hear about this.

Right now, there's a whole lot of pies being thrown, at Townhall meetings, Tea Parties, cable talk shows, and now the U.S. Capitol.

As unexpected as the pies thrown by the Palmetto State's own Joe Wilson and then just a day or so go from the Sunshine State's Alan Grayson were, now comes a custard-filled salvo from Lindsey Graham, one of the few voices of reason, well, in all of Washington.

And the targets of his pie flinging is quite unexpected: Glenn Beck and the Birthers.

Sam Stein at the HuffPo reports:

"Only in America can you make that much money crying," Graham said of Beck. "Glenn Beck is not aligned with any party. He is aligned with cynicism and there has always been a market for cynics. But we became a great nation not because we are a nation of cynics. We became a great nation because we are a nation of believers."

Appearing before a crowd of Washington's elite power players and opinion-makers, Graham spoke largely without filter, offering acidic takes on subject well beyond Beck. The Senator called the birther community that questions the president's U.S. citizenship "crazy" and implored them to "knock this crap off" so the country could get on to more important matters.

"I'm here to tell you that those who think the president was not born in Hawaii are crazy," said Graham, who went on to dispel another myth: that Obama is a closet Muslim.

Nyuk. Nyuk. Nyuk.

Just kidding.

About the Smokey part, not that some bloke named Tumpy actually thinks he has a future in D.C., and he's going to start by challenging a longtime incumbent.

Tumpy? Really?

Sounds like the name of a Pokemon character, you know, the one that looks like a dirt brown toad and squirts a tarry substance out its mouth that makes the victim forget that South Carolina politics isn't currently a cesspool of shame and self-destructive narcissism. (I can see Mark Sanford now, after such a horrible attack, starring into a pig trough saying, "Pig trough, pig trough, in which we wallow, who is the most delusional of them all?")

Now that Tumpy has entered the race, fans of the '80s can rejoice. Not only is Tumpy the son of former Gov. Carroll Campbell, who served South Carolina from 1986 to 1994, but Tumpy is a big fan of 30-year-old pop culture references. Consider this bit from The Post and Courier:

Carroll Campbell III, a Charleston businessman and son of former Gov. Carroll Campbell, formalized his entry into the 1st Congressional District race Wednesday and wasted no time blasting a fellow Republican, incumbent Rep. Henry Brown.

"I have been in the Wendy's restaurant business. And when I take a look at Mr. Brown's record, I have to ask, 'Where's the beef?'" Campbell said. "Unfortunately, Mr. Brown's beef is nothing but pork."

Well, Tumpy, that's three strikes against you.

One, I love bacon.

Two, I hate John Hughes movies.

Three, I go to Burger King. The double cheeseburger is the best burger in the world.

Here's Sic Willie's opener at FITS News (And as usual, this is Will Folks, so proceed with caution):

An attempt to ask a government employee a simple “yes” or “no” question on public property escalated into a showdown between the “new media” and the “old guard” on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning.

Call it the “Fifth Estate” versus the “Fourth Reich,” although the winner of this particular skirmish remains unclear at this point. What is clear is that a story that may have never seen the light of day is suddenly seeping out due to what can only be described as a colossal overreaction by a Congressional staffer — and the U.S. Capitol Police.

Here’s what happened …

Shortly after 9:00 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday morning, three agents of the U.S. Capitol Police detained FITS founding editor Sic Willie — author of the Palmetto State’s most influential, widely-read political website — for nearly an hour. After grilling Sic with questions and running a background check (presumably to see if he had any outstanding warrants), the officers eventually escorted him from the Rayburn House Office Building and enjoined him from re-entering the premises under the threat of arrest.

This is why I moved back to South Carolina. No one plays dirty like we do.

How about Mr. Friendly? Or Mr. Sensible? Or Mr. Fair? Or Mr. All Bright and Cheery?

Anyone of those fits, don't you think?

I mean, if Lou Dobbs can call himself Mr. Independent, I can call myself Mr. Southern Hospitality.

Of course, both of us are completely full of shit. And, I don't know about Lou, but that's the way I like it. Dishonesty is the best policy folks. And hypocrisy is a way of life.

Last night, Lou and his guests were gargling words about some BS involving the Pledge of Allegiance.

According to Fox News, the education sec for the state of New Mex considered an ACLU-backed measure that would not only allow students to refuse to recite the pledge but would require schools to notify parents that their children had the right to keep their mouths shut when everybody else in Mrs. Crabapple's class talked about "one nation under God" and all that.

Well, this didn't sit too well with Lou and his pals, nor with Fox fans. Their argument more or less was this: giving kids the right to not say the pledge is simply un-American; that's not the way we do things here in America, and that's not the way we did it when I was child, so you're darn tootin' them kids gotta say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Here's the thing: Dobbs and his fellow "independent" friends will be the first to tell you that's it's your god-given right to call for the demise of the federal government, the ouster of each and every member of Congress (except for the guy from your district), and the failure of the president of the United States, but your right to thumb your nose at Uncle Sam, to exercise your right to rebel against the government — to let the powers that be know that you're mad as hell at the direction this country has taken and you're not going to take it anymore — just doesn't extend to the Pledge.

You can show your dissatisfaction in other ways (particularly if the head buffoon is a Democrat), but you have to, have to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Your right to protest only goes so far. Free speech has it's limits. Hypocrisy has no bounds.

But here's what's not a good thing: Continuing to try to portray the Tea Party phenom as anything but a movement of pissed off right-wingers, mainly Republicans. Come election time, the vast majority of these folks will vote for the GOP, while a few anti-establishment types will cast their ballots in favor of a fringe Xian group like the Constitution Party or the also-ran Libertarians. You know it, I know, we all know it.

That said, hosts like Todd, congressmen like Jim DeMint, and many a Teabagger will claim that the Tea Party movement is not partisan, but anti-government. Fine. But, as we know, of the two major parties, only one has oxymoronically portrayed itself as, um, "anti-goverment" for 30 years or so, and that's the GOP. Rightly or wrongly, the Dems are a big government-loving party — the Republicans, not so much, at least when it comes to rhetoric. (The other parties are minor leaguers in a major league world; they simply aren't a part of the debate, no matter how vocal they may be from time to time.)

So come on, guys, lay off the BS. The Tea Party movement is partisanship politics at its best. And I mean that sincerely.

See, according to Palmetto Scoop, Knotts has sent a letter to his fellow members of the General Ass., proclaiming that he is "100% certain the rumor [that Andre is gay] is false" and Gov. Mark Sanford's folks are behind it.

In fact, he says that "with absolute certaintity this attack was orchestrated on behalf of Mark Sanford, either directly or indirectly, and financially subsidized by him or one of his many 'front groups.'"

Knotts' proof that Mike Rogers of BlogActive is wrong about Andre and the govenor's men are behind this "false rumor": Jake has known 'Dre since he was eight years old ... and he himself was once the victim of a similar "internet smear campaign" by Sanford's evil henchmen.

And that's it. No proof. No documentation. No taped recordings. No alcohol-fueled confessions. Just a stupid gut feeling. Way to go Walker, Texas Ranger.

Before the end of the letter calling for Sanford's removal, Knotts proclaims that the governor is a "danger to our state" and that if the lege doesn't get Mark out of office, "you and your family could be the next target."

And that means you Dorothy and your little dog too.

Way to look after a friend, Jake. You just couldn't let the "outing" story disappear. You had to go provide even more fodder for the blogosphere and cable news.

Thanks to City Paper news editor Greg Hambrick whose analysis provided the basis for this silly post about a silly man.

Surely Mark Sanford knows this; after all, he's been apologizing for his transgressions for weeks now. In fact, there's nothing that he likes more than to talk about what a bad bad boy he was. (Mark, is that a podium in your pocket or are you just glad to remember your nights with your Latin lover.)

But if you're a member of the press or a state legislator, it ain't none of your business; you can't bring that stuff up. Sanford doesn't work for you. He works for the Lord.

And that's fine. Lord knows, that firm is always a bit understaffed. But I transgress.

Here's the problem with Mark's never-ending confession tour: He only wants to confess so much — or to take full responsibility for his actions. He'll bob and weave if given the chance.

Consider a report yesterday from the Rev. Moon's Washington Times in which Sanford proclaims that God has a plan for him:

Mr. Sanford vowed not to quit despite growing pressure from South Carolina lawmakers and Republican Party officials to resign or face impeachment. He said he intends to complete his term, not to hold on to power but to fight for conservative principles of governance.

"I feel absolutely committed to the cause, to what God wanted me to do with my life," he said in an interview. "I have got this blessing of being engaged in a fight for liberty, which is constantly being threatened."

Maybe so, Mark. Maybe so.

But what's that you say about that hike on the Appalachian Trail and the story you told your staff — and by extension the entire state of South Carolina? It was just a what ... no ... seriously, dude, fess up.

Here's what the Moon man's paper said:

With a record that included business tax cuts, promoting charter schools and criticizing Mr. Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus spending plan, Mr. Sanford was riding high in the state until he made a clandestine trip to Buenos Aires in June to see his lover. To conceal the trip, he told his staff a "little white lie."

Hmm. A little white lie? Really?

Like the time I told my wife that I hadn't watched the season finale of Lost yet, when I actually had, so that we could watch it together for the first time?

Is that what we're talking about here?

Somehow, I don't think so.

Oh, and by the way, instead of looking into the air travel habits of state legislators, Sanford is targeting state-supported colleges. What a yellow-belly, lily-livered chicken.

Head to The State's S.C. Politics Today blog for more.

Now, regardless of whatever my opinions may be, opinions based on little to no evidence, I simply don't see where I or the City Paper can state with any sort of confidence that Rogers' claim is true. Until you show us a video of Andre snorting a line of snow off the taut ass of a Chippendale dancer, then there's not a whole lot to see beyound just gossiping around the water cooler. (And, if and when such an imaginary video is ever released, I hope to God it is not that night vision goggle crap. If I wanted to see little green beasties get all bump and grindy, I'd watch Gremlins. That scene in the movie theater is hot.)

That said, I'm completely surprised that a major news outlet — regionally speaking — has jumped on the story. And that outlet in question is Columbia's WIS-TV.

Here's what they had to say:

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer wants to talk about where he would take the state if Gov. Mark Sanford leaves office. And unless Sanford decides to step down soon, making Bauer his successor, the lieutenant governor will likely run for the number one job.

But since his remarks on the subject last week, Bauer has become a target — first, accusations on a web site claiming that the 40-year-old bachelor is gay.

That post has been picked up and repeated on other sites. We found at least 17 of them, all despite Bauer's previous denials. On Tuesday came strong condemnation from some of Bauer's closest advisers.

Said communications director Frank Adams, "Rumors, gossip, lies, innuendo....a bunch of scurrilous crap."

Later:

One Republican strategist says things like this don't happen in a vacuum.

He says someone in the party and perhaps a number of people believe Bauer has a good chance to become governor and decided to throw a "hand grenade" to stop him now.

Another party activist says even though they may have reached thousands of people, the claims by bloggers are not bound by the truth and should be ignored.

Meanwhile, Will Folks at FITSNews is reporting that a group of, um, "plumbers" just might be behind the alleged "outing."

The Folks brief also includes a bit on Bobby Harrell. But since this is Will Folks, caveat emptor.