I made him flinch.  

Just barely ... but it was there.  When Scott Kleeb extended a strong and confident hand at his new "Nebraskans for Kleeb" office here in Lincoln, I jokingly told him I was there to represent the Kossack Nation.  For the briefest possible second he stared blankly at me like I was reading from a Bulgarian phonebook – then he grinned and asked me my username.

And so it began ...