Fasten your seatbelts, folks. Our state House speaker, Thom Tillis, and the Tea Party’s arch-nemesis, Karl Rove, are embarking on a three-day fundraising marathon to capture a second US Senate seat from North Carolina for the GOP establishment. Tillis went to a Rove party in DC, and it looks like ol’ Bald & Evil is returning the favor in The Tar Heel State.

Here’s the invite. (Ahem. Mine must have been lost in the mail.) So, if you have a few thousand bucks to spare — you’re in the door.