If this story gets national play, it strikes me that a McCain/Palin ticket could lose some of the female support that it's ostensibly gotten a boost from (assuming that it has, in fact).

I'm as much for trimming out unnecessary shit for the taxpayers to pay for, but I would put collecting evidence and representing victims squarely inside my (relatively small) take on "provide for the common good".

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson