He is actually one of my favorite liberal Republicans, but his
speech last night was a boring mess. Leach's contention that the
"party of individual rights has started regulating values" is a
little too much to take from the sponsor of the online gambling
ban. The Democratic Party's desire to showcase Republicans like him
is rich, because he was one of the Republicans they defeated in
2006 to get their majority. And finally, this is off-message for
the Obama campaign, since Leach is one of the sponsors of the
banking legislation they (erroneously) blame for our current
financial jitters, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.