Great piece by Nicole Belle on Alan Grayson, who we pray will be elected so he can set an example for certain spineless Democrats who always cave under pressure. Somehow, I can't see that ever happening with Grayson. He's not in my district, but that doesn't matter to me; he's the sort of Democrat I want to see leading the next generation in Congress.
Belle writes:
Alan Grayson, the progressive Democrat running... in Orlando [against] Ric Keller, has had some of the best press of anyone running for Congress this year. The Vanity Fair feature about his work fighting for taxpayers against Iraq war profiteers is powerful and the article Harper's did on Keller...probably has had a great deal to do with why Grayson is ahead of Keller in all the polling-- ahead and widening the gap.
Belle attributes Grayson's success partly to the hard-hitting messages his campaign is putting out.
I look at congressional candidates' TV spots all day and Grayson's have been among the best and most effective. I have a feeling that's why he's ahead. So ahead that the RNC actually sent out an e-mail calling him the "perhaps the most liberal candidate in America." Alan wears that badge proudly and tomorrow he'll start running a new TV ad that will probably elicit more desperate e-mails from the RNC. It's an ad about what really supporting our troops and vets is all about-- not about wearing ribbons or flag pins or making puffed-up jingoistic speeches but about being there when our fighting men and women need you, no matter how boneheaded you think the Commander-in-chief's decisions are. (C&L)
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