Reply #59: Blanks

[Tom Rinaldo]

Trial balloons, probes for areas of weakness. We are talking about September of last year. The big guns usually don't get fired at that stage of the campaign. The disadvantage of doing so that early is the loss of surprise later when the contest counts the most. Ever notice how smear hit jobs often are released in the final days of a campaign when there is little or no time to refute them? They were going for a quick knock out of Clark. They got a draw instead. Clark isn't the nominee but he is alive and kicking butt for Kerry on the nation's air waves virtually every day.