Meeting Neil Blais is a nice enough experience, but his candidacy, like reality television, has not aged well.

You know what I mean.  For the first year or two, Survivor was interesting, and so was Neil during those salad days of 2007 when he started to stand out at events for the first time.  And that is when I got curious. So I began to look into his record, at his priorities and accomplishments.

And I have to say, like a lot of candidates who aren't quite ready for primetime; Neil's record doesn't fit the image he's been attempting to portray.

For starters, Neil and his supporters like to cite his record on eminent domain as rock solid evidence of his conservative leadership.  Great, let's go to the tape of his record on efforts to fix eminent domain rules, post-Kelo.

While others, including many of his endorsers like Chris Norby, were fighting for Measure A in 2006 ... well, let's just sum it up with a Neil's Real Deal Haiku:

Flip-Flopping Neil Blais
Opposed Norby's Measure A
Now Backs 98