The "Erick Erickson For Senate" boomlet is gone as quickly as it arrived. The RedState blogger and CNN contributor said in a post titled "Self-Awareness Matters" on Friday that he would not challenge Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) for the Republican nomination in 2014. 

"My campaign would be a lightning rod for both sides and a distraction, consuming resources on both sides that are better spent elsewhere," he wrote. "I think in a state like Georgia it would play to my advantage, but it would not advance the ideas I care about through the election, just me."