The First Major Political Operation In The 2010 GOP Gubernatorial Primary?

By Kleinheider Posted on April 21, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Is Tom Leatherwood’s challenge of Marsha Blackburn not really a challenge to her incumbency but instead an attempt by someone to dirty her up so she eschews a run for Governor in 2010? Mr. Turnbow sure thinks so:

I’ve been around politics long enough to recognize when something doesn’t pass the smell test and this Tom Leatherwood challenge doesn’t come close to doing that in my opinion. I think someone like a certain ex US Senator or a certain Mayor or Congressman from over in the east state is behind this Leatherwood challenge of Marsha.

Their motives are simple, since everyone knows Marsha is looking at the Governors race they went out and found a well known politician in a county that any Republican has to win in the primary if they want to win the nomination for a statewide office. Their best hope would be that he defeats Marsha but the more realistic hope would be to try to force Marsha to lash out sometime this summer against the well known Shelby County GOPer Leatherwood and hope it turns off a sizable number of GOPers in the vote rich Shelby County area. To the point where they will refuse to support her for Governor in two years in the GOP primary.

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Tags: Bill Frist, Governors Race, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Ragsdale, Tom Leatherwood