Former Congressman Nick Lampson (Carpetbagger - Beaumont-to-Stafford) has decided that it is just too much trouble to face the voters on November 7 in the special election -- because they just aren't smart enough to figutre out how to vote for him if there is a Republican other than Tom DeLay on the ballot.

Nick Lampson, the Democratic nominee to succeed former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay when Congress convenes next year, said Thursday that he has decided not to run in the special election for DeLay's unexpired term.

Lampson said he wants to limit confusion at the ballot box, since the special election will coincide with the general election Nov. 7, when only two months will remain on DeLay's term.

Got that -- presenting himself in a race with a Republican candidate on teh ballot will cause confusion for the voters -- who just might be so confused that they vote their true choice, which is a Republican candidate.

So while Nick Lampson promised that he would run in the special election when the entire CD22 saga began this spring, now he has broken that committment to the people of CD22 -- which leads me to question what other committments he will break if elected. I'm bettting the first will be his "promise" not to vote for Nacy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.

But then again, maybe he is counting on the people of CD22 to be too stupid to remember his lies in 2008 if he manages to defeat Libertarian Bob Smither and write-in Republican Shelley Sekula-Gibbs -- who he is too cowardly to face head-to-head on the special election ballot.

You mean I'd have to face a Republican!

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