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Steve M. at No More Mr. Nice Blog points out that Mark Robinson, the Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina and, by all available evidence, the best evidence against ticket-splitting since Aaron Burr, is about to become someone to whom we have to pay attention. Speaking on the undercard to
El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago at the recent North Carolina state Republican convention, Robinson, an African-American former Army Reservist, apparently wound some stems, burned some barns, and generally gave the assembled initiates the kind of tingling in the nether regions of which Jesus is said to disapprove outside of marriage. Here are some of the juicier quotes and they are.well, they’re completely nuts. His future in that party is very bright indeed.