My e-mail inbox contains a number of messages from folks explaining why they think it would have been less (small "d") democratic for Torricelli to resign his office, thereby allowing the election to be postponed. Okay, yes, I agree. I don't like that concept much, either. But right now, no one anywhere has a dram of respect for the guy. Had he done what I suggested, might you not think that maybe, for once in his life, he had put his own benefit in second-position for a moment? I'm just wondering what part of his non-existent dignity he thought he was protecting by not taking one for his party.
We recommend regular visits to Spinsanity, a common-sense website that points out errors and distortions by public figures and the press. Some observers seem to feel the site has a liberal slant but even if that's so, they're willing to sometimes point out when liberals misbehave. I don't see many (any?) conservative sites that will ever fault a conservative for anything besides not being conservative enough. The current Spinsanity piece on Al Gore strikes me as even-handed, and the kind of thing I wish more pundits would do.