Yep Sowell first commented that what we were seeing is cooling the mark. The question is what mark?
1. The Duke black voters that Nifong took advantage of to win the primary?
2. The lacrosse families, the defendants and other team members?
I am not sure either group has been cooled yet? I am not sure that the lacrosse group can ever be cooled and he is going to face civil actions. I think with an opponent looming out there the black community he used can not e cooled. Nifong is stuck.
I'm gonna have to re-read that. I thought he was talking about the public.
One group that "cooled" is the black church that was out demonstrating and demanding conviction on the "privileged white boys" who "brutally raped this good, innocent black girl" as "white men have been doing for over 200 years". Blah, blah, blah... Where are those saintly folks now?
The lacrosse families will never be cooled, that's for sure.
Is Cheek going to run? He's taking his time to decide and that's making me a little nervous.
From Sowell's article:
Even after being re-elected, the district attorney cannot let his indictment collapse in public while there is nationwide attention focussed on this case 24-7.
What will be different next year? The public will have either forgotten the case or be tired of hearing about it. The D.A. can even turn the case over to some lawyer on his staff to take into court and see it either get thrown out by the judge or fail to convince a jury.
We will all be tired of hearing about it by then. We are the marks who will be cooled out.