Riding Shotgun for Marked Men – Peter Wallsten, The Wall Street Journal
Americans are downright angry at their elected officials and are choosing to vote the bums out at any chance they get this year. Last night Democratic Congressman Alan Mollahan, a 14-term veteran of the House of Representatives from West Virginia, was beaten in his party’s primary. Coming up shortly are elections in Pennsylvania and Arkansas where the Democratic Party establishment is backing the same old Washington insiders. The GOP is doing the same thing in Kentucky. But Americans are sick of the Washington set, they want reformers and change agents. Rand Paul in Kentucky is just such a candidate, that’s why the GOP is so scared of him winning the party’s senate nomination. The old guard doesn’t get it yet, but their days in Washington are numbered. – Timothy Jones