Reply #5: He did the right thing.

[TayTay]

I hate to say it, but you also have to recognize the realities on the ground. The purpose of GOTV rallies to to boost the vote for the local candidate. If the Senator goes to an event, he will attract media that doesn't want to talk about the issues, they just want to talk about the misquote. Like it or not, this won't help the GOTV effort.

The Senator knows this and is taking himself out of local races in an effort to not be a distraction to local candidates and put them on the spot on a nonissue for them. (Why should Bob Casey have to deal with this? Sad, but true.) It is what has to happen. Kerry can talk about Iraq from a national position and use his voice to carry that argument without local candidates having to worry about the media hijacking their rallies to talk about this nonissue.

Sometimes you bite the bullet and take one for the team.