On the Roanoke Times‘ website, Del. Preston Bryant writes that he’s giving up the column that he’s written for the site for the past 2.5 years. Bryant has been a cheerleader for the right in that time — and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that — which has left him in a ticklish situation. Having been all but booted out of the Republican Party last week, as a part of the emerging tax-based war within their ranks, Bryant’s probably not feeling like a particularly big fan of the RPV right now. As he reads back on his former cheers, they’ve got to ring a little hollow now.
Bryant is left with the choice of using his column as a pulpit to rail against the radicals in his party, or keeping quiet at the request of the increasingly-ineffective House whip or, more likely, RPV chair Kate Obenshain-Griffin. I’ll be curious to see how much longer the party can keep these two factions from airing all of their dirty laundry publicly.