Reply #10: It WOULD have been fair....

[Frodo]

...a month or two ago.

Nothing is fair the weekend before an election. We just "happened" to find out? Or, frankly, the Bush DWI news a few days before the 2000 election. You think someone didn't know that weeks/months earlier? No. Someone held it until it was as politically potent as possible (and with no time to respond - or if you do it takes you off of your message).

That's dirty politics, plain and simple. And Davis has been known for it. But it can make a differnece in who wins and loses - and that's why it's done. Do we really think the DWI story cost shrub zero votes? No, he may have only lost .5%-1.5% on the revelation, but we would never have been arguing over dimpled chads if we had "played fair".

Yes. The "public has a right to know", but they have a right to know well in advance so they make an informed decision. Not see "Nazi" next to someones name in the paper a day or two before the election. Whoever is behind it (maybe it's McClintoch - who knows?) deserves to lose. My team or not.