Reply #45: I'm amused. I can think of no greater cults of personality

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than the ones that have grown up around Hackett and Sheehan. Look, I don't trust Randi. She gets her facts wrong way too often. Having said that, I agree that Hackett got screwed by the dems. Whether Randi's version is true, or whether it was just a case of the insider getting rewarded, it stunk. Nevertheless, Hackett proclaimed how important it was to defeat repubs, and now, even if it's inadvertent, he's helping them. Politics is rough and often ugly. That goes for the left as well as the right. In the best of all possible worlds, it wouldn't be this way, but that's not where we live. I don't blame Hackett for being angry, but if he cares as much about changing things in DC as he's professed, he'd be well advised to just be quiet.