Sure, you have to play hardball to win a contested party primary, but Van Hilleary really has the gloves off in an email blast out today. Wanting to show his U.S. Senate bid has legs by pumping up the fund-raising numbers for the second quarter (which ends today), Hilleary's email implores supporters to open their wallets by midnight tonight, because otherwise...well...the barbarians are at the gate (and they aren't Democratic barbarians):
"If our campaign shows strength, the entire country will know that Tennessee is standing tall for conservative values. If we don't show strength, the pro-tax, socially-liberal, weak-kneed Republicans who want to defeat us will be emboldened."
Of course, if I win the nomination, I'll be counting on those pro-tax, socially liberal, weak-kneed Republicans becoming emboldened to vote for me in the general election.
