ARGH

I don't have any better words for it:

NashvillePost.com has learned that Mike McWherter, son of popular former Democratic Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter, will not challenge incumbent Senator Lamar Alexander (R) next year. Sources say that the Jackson, Tenn. businessman came to his final decision over the Thanksgiving holiday.

This was a costly tease, and not just in terms of money. There were other possible candidates for this race, Bob Tuke and Kevin Doherty, but neither of them were planning on challenging McWherter in the primary. Now that he's not going to run, one of them is going to have to quickly build up an operation and start raising money to run against an opponent who's got several months worth of activity on them already.

And of course, I now have to delete a Facebook group of almost 200 people.

ARGH!

UPDATE: Here's his statement.