The Democrat primary winner to run against Indiana Congressman Dan Burton is a young fellow, energetic and … Uh. Well. Did I mention that he won the Democrat primary? I did? Oh, darn!

It seems that he has some history — now, mind you: this guy’s too young to have much of any history —as a Republican! Oh, the horror!

But rather than being welcomed as party-switcher, a Jim Webb Blue Dog Democrat type, he’s being lambasted. “I want a credible candidate,” a blue-haired Democrat woman lamented after her group of blue-haired Democrat women grilled him, post-primary, and found him largely unsympathetic to Democrat party positions.

Well, mam, the time to field an ideologically true Democrat was before this fellow won the primary. Got that? Before. B–E–F–O–R–E. It wouldn’t matter in the end, because Dan Burton presumably will win again. That’s why no credible, pure Democrat bothered running.

I have some Republican history, too, and I’ve long thought that our County had lots of “Republicans” whose positions were dubious for that party identification. And I recall when our GOP could muster against our entrenched late Mayor James Riehle (not a bad Mayor, apart from his choice of City Attorney, police chiefs and a few other thugs-in-government) nobody except a seeming escapee from an asylum. The same may happen with current Mayor Roswarski — by some accounts, it did happen.

I can’t help but feel schadenfreude.