Real Warriors

     Alabama's Joe Turnham, quoted in a Wall Street Journal story this morning:

"Sometimes you have to subtract to add, and once you get down to the real warriors, you can fight," said Joe Turnham, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party. He said he has made dozens of phone calls in recent weeks to surviving Democrats to make sure they weren't considering leaving.

     Joe, so course, is not expected to continue as one of those warriors...he's going to be replaced as Chair of the party. And just who is he talking about anyway?

     Perhaps another departing "real warrior"...Primary candidate for Governor Artur Davis had the right idea when he suggested what's really needed is a third party. Of was that because he no longer has a home in either major party after blasting both of them in the bruising and losing campaign?

Sparks Turn

     Democratic nominee for Governor Ron Sparks, roundly criticised by the man he beat in the June Primary Election, is responding with an Opp-Ed of his own in this morning's Montgomery Advertiser.

     Sparks is mild in his criticism of Artur Davis, but still says Davis never called him after the Primary to say, well, to say anything.

    So Sparks says he called and left a message for Davis. A still unanswered message. Unless you consider last week's Op-Ed (see earlier posting) the response.

A.D. Redux

     The Washington Post has a story about Artur Davis's sour grapes opinion piece ("he expected to be called a sore looser", they write) in last Sunday's Birmingham News, if you want to see how outside media paints it.          

     The only thing new I read is the fact that Mr. Davis will move to Northern Virginia once his term ends in January and become a "top flight criminal defense attorney". And Washington always needs another one of those, no?