I'm pretty sure that no reasonable person would fault Pete for being unwilling to walk into the rhetorical equivalent of an ambush...

Rhetorical equivalent of an ambush?  That's bullsh!t.  And bullsh!t needs to take a walk this time around with sniffing at another opportunity to belly up to the taxpayer trough.  It is Legendary Sofa's record we are reviewing here NOT some planted stink bomb.  He did it and he earned it.

Mr. Heine, what you have offered us here really cannot be considered by any stretch of the imagination as a "different perspective".  Some on here do remember all those wooden shoe side of the state torpedoes that were launched from the USS TARPstra during the 2010 gubernatorial primary.

Pete's your guy.  We get it.

The TEA movement should be commended for showing a sherd of sanity with rejecting the idea of another 6 years of the HOEKjoke.

Point blank - this guy is an a$$hole.