Well.. there goes that chit.

Joe Repya announced today that he will NOT seek Norm Coleman's seat in a Republican primary. I personally spoke with Col. Repya a couple of months ago, when he divulged his intentions.

I did not think back then, nor do I think now, that Repya would have survived the primary battle. Repya himself, saw that as well:

Repya, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel from Eagan, had said he was thinking about a Senate bid after he unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Minnesota Republican Party in June.

He decided against a run because, he said, it would be financially difficult and would hurt party unity.

Although I did not see the possibility of Repya winning, I was kind of hoping that he would continue his bid.

With Coleman's left turns as of late, looking more like Jimmy Carter than Ronald Reagan, I was hoping that a Repya challenge would rein in his RINO tendencies, at least through the primary season.

Now there's nothing to hold him back, except the wrath of his grass-roots base, which he has most certainly incurred.

If Coleman continues to tread the path of the RINO, it will look pretty silly for him when he gets up to speak at a National Convention in his home state, and gets booed off of the stage by members of his own party.