Jeff Johnson, ditching now his Tea Party gravitas to move middle, get this - also ditches his photo-op coffee. So who is this man of a strange for-as-long-as-useful attitude pattern?

Brodkorb: This link. Sorensen at Bluestem Prairie take's note of the Johnson charisma level among extremists of the my-own-drummer mode of thought marching.

So, the me-oriented extremist, Jeff Backer, the GOP endorsed candidate Sorensen highlights, had that Jeff Jefferson experience - where I bet the Jefferson guy was less a twit than the Johnson fellow, when contemplating Jeffs side by side.