Booker sounds nervous on Rachel's show. nt

[quaker bill]

63. Hubris

Mr. Booker underestimated the level of hubris entailed in the act of stepping into the middle of this campaign. Many consumer oriented businesses are backing away from participation in pacs because they don't want 50 percent of their customers mad. PAC funds so far have come from the independently wealthy, in short those who can find public approval irrelevant.

This is going to be an explosive campaign that I think Obama will win, but both sides will be quite angry at any moment with even slight provocation. It has gone quite negative very early, and this will not stop until after the election. The only hope for functional government is one party control of the WH and Congress, so the battle will spread down the ticket. The answer at the polls will define things for quite some time to come.

Booker stepped face first into a buzzsaw. Appeals to comity and non-partisan equanimity, as theoretically laudable as they might be, will not be heard this time around. My disappointment in him is that he is apparently not politically bright enough to have already known this.

He should be nervous