This commentary isn't meant for the SusanGs or MaryScotts.
This kind of gift wrapped for the powers that be coverage helped elect Raygun twice, helped sink Dukakis' lame campaign, helped Gore from deciding who he should be, helped "electable" Kerry get the nomination and the run a worse-than-Dukakis campaign.
below the fold for the URLS, and a good quote.
I am not going to rail on for people who are dithering about whether a couple of kb of email is too strong or too rude or too upfront.
Count the number of inches for DLCHillary and for Hackett. Last night their headline about the election was far more favorable to Schmidt.
Being nice to these people is a fast track to more '88, '00 and '04 elections.
and finally, an inspirational quote.
rmm pco 36-1392 ballard.
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Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201873.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201891.html?nav=hcmodule