I LOVE DEMOCRATS! Over the past 24 hours, rank-and-file Democrats have been calling or dropping in to Krikorian headquarters, offering encouragement and volunteer help. They are responding to the most massive swiftboating campaign, run by some party apparatchiks against a front-running Democrat, in state history. Polls are swinging TO KRIKORIAN, as the dirty tricks tactics of the Yalamanchili campaign cause a local pandemic of "Chili"-induced nausea.
It's a fascinating dynamic: the muckety-mucks, who in Cincinnati are especially mucky, celebrate too early that they've pulled off a giant caper on voters. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file is fed up, to extend the metaphor, preparing to deliver a message in one giant collective retch.
Memo to Politburo members Chris Redfern, David Lane, and Tim Burke: Next time you collude with the Republican incumbent to sabotage a popular Democrat, don't do it as a troika. Given last week's betrayal of the public trust, you will forever be known in south Ohio as the Three Stooges of Jean Schmidt!
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