Everyone else seems to be willing to just let it go on unchallenged.

I agree Dennis is doing the right thing in New Hampshire, just as he did with the impeachment proposition. That's what I like about him. I wish he could be in the primary, and I really do not understand why he is being so slighted in exposure. I also think, however, that he may not be scrappy enough to win in the race. This is a tradition in American politics -- the really smart ones often don't make the race because they are smart enough to see both sides and stay linked to the core facts rather than the battle of rhetoric. Adlai was a classic example. Unless Dennis is willing to kick some serious rhetorical butt, he will continue to be seen as a "brainy also-ran", I think. WHile I protest this widlly in my heart, I also think it is a cold fact of the realpolitik involved.

It occurs to me that given his slender chances under present conditions, he might do well to change gears and become a virtual Elmer Gantry, passionately calling the other candidfates on their compriomises and rubbing their faces in it. Ya never know. But it may be he is too civilized to resort to such jungle tactics.


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