At 3:20 PM -0400 4/11/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >Metaphor Alert http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/219354_robert08.html > >From a column by Robert L. Jamieson Jr. in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer >("intelligent as a post!"): > >*** QUOTE *** > >The Republican Red Scare is on the loose. Again. > >The swirling forces of smear and sneer are now looking to a skeletal >graybeard to legitimize their cause: Slade Gorton. > >The former U.S. senator from Washington has slithered back into the >politics pool. Gorton says King County "has the worst elections >administration of any county in the United States." . . . > >One would have hoped the eminence grise of Evergreen State politics would >be above shooting hyperbole from the hip to stir up the masses. . . . > >Gorton's splash was about partisan puffery, not a fleshing of meaningful >facts. > >*** END QUOTE *** > >Pretty much the whole article is like this, but respect for intellectual >property prevents our giving you more than a taste.
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