You remember, don't you? Governor Schaffer made a stink over poor service at a restaurant. The conversation veered into multiculturalism and Governor Ehrlich made an off-hand remark characterizing multiculturalism as "bunk".
Do you know why you remember it? Not because of its insightfulness and depth. Not because it was bluntly accurate and demonstrated that executives have a talent for distilling arguments to their core and reaching a decisive conclusion. Not because was the funniest thing you had ever heard, although history may relegate it to the next publication of "Politicians say the funniest things". So, why do you remember it?
You remember it because every Democrat in Maryland repeated it so often, and into every microphone, that years later, during an election, mere mention of the word "bunk" made people thing "Ehrlich" in the context of "Ehrlich doesn't like people who are not white." It wasn't true. It was reality.
This why there is a need to continue to talk about the things done and said by the O'Malley Administration, O'Malley, and his employees. When Republican candidates talk into microphones, they must be prepared to list concisely the most egregious offenses. And that must start now and continue through the next election.
O'MalleyWatch is full of fodder for the cannons of those who prefer freedom to the progressive movement that had its origins in the writings of Marx. Each of you, through your blogs and comments adds to the information that will populate the computer screen when the reporters doing background for the election stories of 2010 the search term use "Martin O'Malley". (Don't hold your breath for 2008.)
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