y oh y. :) Simmons only mentioned the glorious pork aspect (maybe necessary pork and thus un-pork and low fat beef) in his summation. Obviously, that has more salience to the plebs in New London than it does to me, although I doubt the plebs were watching the debate (but no doubt they will get targeted mailers). The rest was about Iraq and health care, with Courtney apparently in the health care industry somehow, and thus had a lot of detailed trivia to offer. If Simmons previous opponents have been as articulate as this one, he is a mensch indeed, to slay them on hostile ground.
:-} Courtney is a lawyer, a perennial also ran and a former state senator which is where he comes by his medical "expertise". I wish he were an ambulance chaser, it wold have been funnier, but I think his firm specializes in criminal law. Not sure of that though.