Shove it, clodhopper.
oh meow meow meow
You clearly know Paul Eaton far better than I. I know him only slightly from when he was a Captain and then by reputation as he moved along the professional path. I thought him to be an ambitious idiot for the most part, but no great danger to the Republic. Ambition, in my view, has directed his course since he retired.
Your intimate acquaintance with him would, of course, trump my feeble observations. This remains one of the great aspects of Free Republic, the geniuses of the world school us daily.
Yours in fraternal Clodhopper fidelity