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-There's a very good article in The Washington Post today about a young man running for Delegate in VA. Chris Craddock has attended at least three of my campaign trainings. He has a very good chance of taking out a RINO in VA!

-Tucker Carlson's new show on MSNBC will debut tonight. Tucker wasn't playing to his strengths on CNN. He couldn't win a hardball debate against Carville or Begalla. I think he's much more suited to a calmer, more intellecutal environment. In short, I think it's a wise move for him.

- ... To all those would-be campaigners out there -- now THIS is what I call advance work!

...Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao recently visited a plastics lab at Penn State University with Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) to hand out about $750,000 as part of a grant to retrain plastics industry employees.

She spent about 20 minutes touring the lab, meeting students and faculty and picking up a plastic Nittany Lion mask made while she watched.

"She would later describe her tour as exciting," Erie Times-News reporter Jim Martin reported. "What her tour wasn't was impromptu or spur of the moment," he noted. She was "preceded . . . by an advance team that spent hours preparing for her visit. Her every move across the plastics lab was planned, right down to the pieces of tape on the floor that directed her where to stand."

Exactly. And that's why it went flawlessly.