Whether he wins or loses, Corzine's comments here ought to be required study for Democrats in how to handle the silly season questions from the teevee actors. He's given a question about his use of a metaphor in an ad which sparked some heat two weeks ago which has since died down. He gives a diplomatic-sounding non-apology ("well perhaps now in thinking it over, I should have used slightly different words") and suggests a tiny amount of embarrassment without actually saying so. In so doing, he manages to revive the image, the charge, and the phrase from two weeks ago, for another round of media coverage — without actually re-stating the charge.

If Corzine wins next Tuesday, it will be his fighting instinct that saves him.

I'm a big Tim Cahill fan, but I do wonder how an Australian living in England finds time to be a gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts.

Doug Hoffman, Conservative party candidate for Congressman in NY 23, went before a newspaper editorial board the other day and was thoroughly unfamiliar with the local issues of that Congressional District. But he had the ex-Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey from Washington, D.C. with him to complain that the editorial board shouldn't be asking those "parochial questions."

Now Hoffman gets ex-Senator Fred Thompson from Hollywood and Governor Tim Pawlenty from Minnesota to fly in and bolster his sagging campaign against the real Republican Party's candidate in the race. I wonder if he even asked for all that high-powered out-of-state Republican help, or if he is just sitting around waiting for orders from the national party leadership about what to have for breakfast before he goes out and follows the daily schedule they have faxed him him from Washington.

Do the Republican voters of NY-23 have any idea who he will really represent if they elect this carpetbagging puppet to Congress. It sure won't be the voters of district 23.

I'm so sick of Hoffman's ads I wouldn't vote for him if he was the only one running.