[beyond the sea]

The libs are entering their own absurd Dilbert zone now, where no matter how insane and far-fetched the jokes we lob at them, they will run under the jokes and do just that.

I hear you. Now, I'm feeling left out. I want to be somebody.

I guess I must fess up then: One of my great, great, great, greater grandfathers was a Whig who was up to no good.

Back in the early to mid 1800's the Whigs and old Grandpop, to demoralize leading Democrats, to persuade the Democrats that the campaign was going badly, sent out a letter to that effect supposedly written by some high party muckety-muck. Another of his tricks involved the printing up of phony ballots; the ballots mixed up the names of Democratic and Whig electors, which was intended to confuse voters. Cool, eh.

It's in the blood, I tell you.

;-)

[dirtboy]

Back in the early to mid 1800's the Whigs and old Grandpop, to demoralize leading Democrats, to persuade the Democrats that the campaign was going badly, sent out a letter to that effect supposedly written by some high party muckety-muck. Another of his tricks involved the printing up of phony ballots; the ballots mixed up the names of Democratic and Whig electors, which was intended to confuse voters. Cool, eh.

I tell you, they just don't make campaign dirty tricks the way they used to. Using phones and faxes and planted operatives removes that personal touch.