Candidate for high court puts Robinson at a loss for words

This whole story is ridiculous, pathetic, and — sadly — uncomfortably humorous. Politics suck. However, Robinson regularly dishes it out, so I'm sure he can take it.

By Scott Sexton in today's WSJ:

Other than the good folks at the League of Women Voters and trial lawyers, who really knows anything about candidates for the N.C. Supreme Court? The answer, sadly, is not many of us.
There is one candidate who is out to change all that - but not in a good way.
The campaign antics of one Rachel Lea Hunter, a lawyer from Cary, are changing the perception of staid, nonconfrontational judicial races. She is running against Associate Justice Mark Martin for an eight-year term on the state's highest court.
Hunter's latest stunt involves our own Vernon Robinson, the former city-council member and current Republican candidate for the 13th Congressional District. In a rambling e-mail that she signed and distributed Tuesday, Hunter writes about Robinson's decision to remain in the Republican Party despite being soundly beaten last year in his quest to become the state party chairman.
"Like a good slave, (Robinson) has returned to the plantation," wrote Hunter, a registered Democrat who is white. "I am sorry to use that metaphor, but his actions are like that of a slave saying 'I'll be good from now on, Massa.' A real leader would have told the NC GOP to shove it and would have resigned from the party after how he was treated."