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Fascinating as all of this is, the entire blogosphere, especially the politico-blogosphere, needs to realize that this whole episode is a microcosm that feeds upon itself. Most of the country, even die hard political junkies, will never know nor care that any of this happened, and even the few that read about it will likely hear about it from some talking-head (or blog head) at face value.
Given this perspective, I find it somewhat scary that some people have this much time (and get paid for it!) to dig up dirt, fling it, and mischaracterize it. The politics of smear, fear, uncertainty, doubt, and selective memory know no bounds.
I will now return to being happily naive to the ways of the politico-blog-world.
