All the candidates for governor (minus Ron Ramsey) went to Lipscomb last night to debate the great issues of the day.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.The only news we could detect came when Bill Haslam said he's against wine in grocery stores. So if that's your litmus test, cross Haslam off your list. Zach Wamp said he didn't really care about that, and Mike McWherter pledged to stay out of it because he sees it as a conflict of interest.
"As many of you may know," McWherter said in the forum's only attempt at humor, "I'm a beer wholesaler. So I would prefer that everybody drink beer."
In the absence of news, we entertained ourselves by watching Wamp. What a weird guy! Intense is the word you could use to describe the congressman, who always seems revved up on Red Bull. As he speaks in machine-gun bursts, his body heaves and he stabs at you with his fingers. At certain points, we thought he would jump into the audience and grab somebody by the throat to demand their vote. Roughly half of what he says makes no sense whatsoever.
