What else has happened that should be making Ralph Reed cringe? Well, how about this editorial from his hometown newspaper.

Friends, just because somebody has name recognition does not automatically mean they are the best person for the job.

I have had only one face-to-face conversation with Mr. Reed and that was a couple of years ago in the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce parking lot after some large meeting or other. He is very smart and very, very smooth, but my you-know-what detector kept bleeping and I could not make it quit. Now he is running for high elected office in my state, but I believe he really has his eye on Governor and then on the top job in Washington, D.C., which is somewhat scary for a moderate Republican to contemplate. Even before this Alabama gambling mess involving the Choctaw Indians and their highly profitable casinos, I did not think that Ralph Reed was the face I wanted to see for Georgia. No.

(The [Duluth] Weekly.)