With the announcement of "Dick" Gephardt and a few others recently, I have only one thing to say:

GET OUT!

and I mean that in the nicest way of course. I love you all to pieces, I think you are wonderful human beings with great ideas, strong beliefs and valuable contributions to our party and certainly our Nation. But at a time when we are facing one of the most formidable PR machines an incumbent President and Party has ever had, each one of you does little more than offer the BushRoveCo ammunition to beat us (fairly or not) about the head and shoulders and put us in a position of constantly reacting to everything.

Bottom line: it's easier to be focused when you're not contending with having to explain what some bonehead just said to the likes of a Ceci Connely or Joan Vennichio (sp?) of the Boston Globe I believe. And every hat in the ring removes the ability of all of us (it's not about you you silly candidates) to concentrate on the target: Regime Change in '04. So in the nicest way: if you're there for vanity, checking it out, to be a deal-maker or breaker...wait for another election cycle, because if you Ralph on us no one will ever want to know you again.

The preceeding public non-service pronouncement applies to all candidates who are just now "exploring", "forming" or otherwise groping around for a reason to get some media attention. We won't mention braun names of people "chickenhawk" joe lieberman we'd like to see sharpton drop out kucinich of the gephardt race now and perhaps become players in other ways (VP's? well, except Chickenhawk Joe)