In keeping true to her blog's name, the Sensible Mom picks at Howard Dean's suggestion that the best way to get to know candidates is from barring the press from events.
Speaking to a Mortgage Banker's trade group meeting, Dean suggested closed-door meetings, like the one he was attending, as a way to get candidates to speak more candidly.
I'll side with her on this one, hands down. While I appreciate that candidates would like to have full control over their message, and not have unseemly things they utter get out, suggesting that we remove the press is quite ridiculous on its face.
Let's put it this way. Assuming that you are not Senator George Allen, would you want to know how easily "makaka" flows off your Senator's lips, or do you think that that's irrelevant? Would the DNC chair rather that that kind of thing not gotten out in last year's hotly-contested Virginia race?
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