[ShadowDancer]

If said wife is posting here, she's fair game. Otherwise, she shouldn't be. Period.

[Owen]

The buzz phrases come to mind. "All politics is local." "Tactics trump policy every single time."

The far right fringe freepers have a right to speak up. They would be better advised to choose to do so some point in time when a campaign is not in progress. When they choose to do so now, essentially in a manner intended to hurt re-election probabilities of the right-most viable candidate, then they are not pursuing a policy difference. Then they are a tactic of the opposition.

Contorting logic to arrive at the conclusion that the right-most viable candidate is the one that needs to lose is not a policy difference. It is, rather, helping the opposition.