"Prickless for President"

[deutsey]

Here's an interesting commentary from the NYPress.com:

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Then there’s "prickly." "Prickly" is the kiss of death for any major politician in this country. Jerry Brown, in his presidential run, was prickly. Viagara spokesman Bob Dole, ironically enough, was prickly. Then, of course, there’s the great Kaiser Prickhelm, Howard Dean, who in recent weeks was blasted into space dust because of his unapologetic prickliness.

"Prickly" is fatal. I have yet to find a politician who survived it. John McCain, probably the highest-ranking "prickly" person in the American political establishment, is still a senator, but his prospects for the White House grow smaller all the time.

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That’s what this election is all about. The political establishment does not want any sexual competitors out there. The major party candidates exist as vehicles for furthering the status quo—just as programming exists to sell ads. I’m not sure what Dean’s crime was, since politically he was not all that different from the other candidates. It might have been that he opposed the war. It might have been that he subverted the party structure through his treasonous attempts to raise a war chest by appealing directly to the electorate. Whatever the specific offense was, the general offense was clear: He unzipped his little Vermont fly and wouldn’t zip it back up again.

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2. Bring it on

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That's what I'm expecting, but I think the commentary is worth a read. The writer has been among the reporters literally following the campaign. He has a valid and, albeit vulgar at times, point of view.

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3. This is it right here (he nailed it):

"It might have been that he subverted the party structure through his treasonous attempts to raise a war chest by appealing directly to the electorate. Whatever the specific offense was, the general offense was clear: He unzipped his little Vermont fly and wouldn’t zip it back up again."

Yup. That's it, all right.