[new yorker 77]

I give Schmidt a pass.

She did not take back what she said.

She said she would rephrase it.

Either way, it will be echoed over and over again.

She will be re-elected in a landslide in 2006.

I don't mind the PC half non-apology.

"COWARDS CUT AND RUN, MARINES NEVER DO."

That truth stands.

[Glenmerle]

I don't mind the PC half non-apology.

I do. I mind PC very much. Besides, it's not being played as a non-apology, it's being played as a groveling, sniveling apology -- that's how it will be portrayed by the MSM, and that's how it will be perceived by those whose only contact with the current events is their local evening news. I'm SICK of Republicans either not stepping up and speaking the truth or taking the truth back once they've said it. It MATTERS.