N. Carolina GOP primary may be the country's nastiest (McHenry at his finest)

N. Carolina GOP primary may be the country's nastiest
By Lisa Zagaroli | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008


WASHINGTON — Rep. Patrick McHenry says the candidates who want his seat in Congress don't want to talk about his voting record.

Unfortunately for the North Carolina Republican, there's plenty of other material for them to work with.

The contest has gotten so ugly that McHenry's GOP opponent has accused McHenry of putting American lives at risk after he returned from Baghdad — perhaps a new height in primary election squabbling.

"It's getting a little testy out there," said Michael Bitzer, a political science professor at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. "Campaigns are modern-day warfare, so you are going to pull out whatever ammunition that you can to attack an incumbent."

McHenry enters the state's primary on May 6 trying to shake off recent headlines from his first trip to Iraq, during which the two-term lawmaker referred to a man protecting a U.S. Embassy gym as a "two-bit security guard" and then filmed himself talking about the buildings hit by enemy fire.

His Republican opponent, Lance Sigmon of Newton, N.C., is airing a TV ad that essentially accuses McHenry of endangering Americans by giving away battle damage details. McHenry threatened to sue Sigmon if he didn't take the ad down, but Sigmon refused.

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who will bodily threaten anyone who even brings McHenry's sexual exploits into the public arena.

He is a Rove protege and, IIRC, he was also involved with that Republican strategist-lover-triangle murder down in Florida last year.

I cannot think of anyone who deserves a little karmic boot to the head more than Patrick McHenry, that whiny little obstructionist.

definitely was? Many GOP and Dem insiders in McHenry's district are aware of it, but again, no one wants to go on record and talk about that openly because McHenry has enforcers who pretty much run that entire Gastonia area like an organized crime ring.