Say what you will about Palin's influence, but she appears to be the primary reason that Scozzafava just dropped out of the NY-23 race. If this triggers a conservative resurgence within the Republican party in 2010, we'll probably have to look back at Palin as the one who got the ball rolling--for better or for worse.
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Your lawyer in practice spends a considerable part of his life doing distasteful things for disagreeable people who must be satisfied, against an impossible time limit and with hourly interruptions, from other disagreeable people who want to derail the train; and for his blood, sweat, and tears he receives in the end a few unkind words to the effect that it might have been done better, and a protest at the size of his fee.
--William L. Prosser
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