The American Spectator

p> MASSAGED SUCCESS br> Re: Lisa Fabrizio’s Sliding Down the Polls : /p> p>I guess there’s a reason why the word poll is only one letter away from the word pol. br> — Howard Lohmuller br> Seabrook, Texas /p> p> My fellow Nutmeger, Ms. Fabrizio, has it absolutely right. Analyzing a Democrat poll is like watching a card shark deal from the bottom of the deck. While the outcome is appalling (especially if your money is on the table), nonetheless you have to admire the duplicitous slight of hand required to produce such a biased result. Of course, like all good con men, the Dems have their ideological goons in all the right places; so it was of little surprise that the MSM took scant notice of the Dems hitting absolute moral and intellectual rock bottom when the Reps called them on the Iraqi withdrawal resolution and only three showed up for the fight. No profile in courage for Mr. Murtha on this one. Even the buffoon, Charlie Rangel, whom you might recall, had his own Murtha moment when he failed to vote for his own resolution to reinstate the Draft, after milking all the cable talkies for all it was worth and hinting that a Bush draft was in the works right after the election, didn’t vote for it. Ah, but then there’s the slick John Edwards with his rhetorical slight of hand. He claims America hungers for something big and inspirational. Of course being a Dem, he offers a palliative with no answers. You’d think, in order to quench the thirst of the faithful, that he just might finally reveal the secret plan John Kerry had to end to war but couldn’t until after the election. But no, that would reveal the con, nothing up my sleeve but more slight of hand. And so it goes. br> — A. DiPentima /p>