I really want to believe that State Representative Rick Noriega is a decent, honorable man. I give him this benefit of the doubt almost entirely because he is a Lt. Col. in the Texas Army National Guard.

Which makes some of the tactics from his campaign hard to stomach.

Like this: Noriega's official Online Campaign Director, Karl Thomas Musselman, left an interesting comment at the angry and unhinged Liberal blog site Daily Kos:

This election is our chance to destroy the Republican Party and its leadership.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Noriega has stated that he wants to represent all Texans. However wanting to destroy the party that represents the majority of our state's citizens, doesn't exactly sound like ALL Texans to me.

It sounds more like he's only interested in representing Democrats and Liberals.

Rob Jessmer from Sen. John Cornyn's campaign emailed me to add:

Weeks ago, we announced our intention to run a positive campaign and asked Rick Noriega to join us. He pointedly rejected our request. We knew his campaign would resort to slinging mud, but even we underestimated the depths on his anger.

In debates, and in his political appearances when news media are present, Noriega claims he will work to bring people together. But that is merely for public consumption. The reality, it turns out, is quite different. He apparently hopes to unite us by destroying and eliminating all those who have a different opinion than him.

Mr. Noriega should publicly denounce Karl Thomas-Mussleman. And then fire him.

Karl Thomas is also the Campaign Manager for Rep. Mark Strama (D-TX). I wonder if Rep. Strama agrees with his campaign manager's desire to "destroy the Republican party?"

Rep. Strama should fire Karl Thomas, too.

Unless of course that is how Mr. Noriega and Mr. Strama feel...

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Karl-Thomas is one of the publisher of the liberal political blog Burnt Orange Report.

I believe that he's commented at my other blog, Urbangrounds, anonymously at least three times (using the alias BOR once instead of his actual name). Which is nice considering his own blog doesn't allow anonymous comments.