OK, then, indeed.

I'm going with option (b), but option (a) wouldn't surprise me.

Thanks for the report.

Odd strategy.

He'd probably be smarter to attend to his primary opponent at this point.

turn my stomach.

Constituents knock on his door!

They're modern looking! (i.e., liberal)

We are told that Tyler Harber is running Emert's campaign? Can anyone confirm this? Might explain the tactics.

I got to know Tyler Harber fairly well in the course of researching the peccadillos of the Ragsdale administration. In fact, those are probably the longest, most intensive interviews I've ever done with anybody, including Tattoo Eddie and Tim Burchett.

And not one thing he told me has ever turned out to be false. Not. One. Thing.

In the years since, I have stayed in touch with Tyler, who is now a very successful Washington D.C. Republican political operative, and I do not believe he is affiliated with Emert's campaign at all. He has been friends with Emert and his family since childhood, and doubtless wishes him well, but has moved on with his life – married to a successful novelist, two kids, consulting work all over the globe, talking head job on Faux News. In short, he has put Knoxville in the rear view mirror.

I like Tyler, and we talk on the phone and email occasionally. He's real smart, very practical and not terribly ideological (think a younger Steve Schmidt). People need to remember how young he was when Mike Ragsdale had him pulling all those shenanigans 10 years ago. Heck, he wasn't even legal to drink when I first met him.

In short, Tyler has assured me he is not involved in Emert's campaign and I believe him. He's got better things to do.