Don’t be nervous, Ramesh, I actually
wasn’t thinking about you or Rich. Don’t forget I work in a mainstream
newsroom, and I heard nothing but “Scary Zell!” the day after, and heard the
same thing over and over on the chat shows. I don’t begrudge you or anybody
the right to criticize the Miller speech on factual grounds, which seems
legit. What I believed was misguided was this notion that the militant tone
of the Zell speech was somehow going to make swing voters mess their drawers
and run crying to John Kerry. Please. It was all about hitting the Reagan
Democrats in the sweet spot, and I think it was a bullseye.