The always-excellent Buffalo Pundit makes an interesting observation: the republican opponent of Alice Kryzan in the 26th Congressional district is refusing to debate her. Now, in case you think you've heard that story before, you have: (R) challenger Dennis Delano is refusing to debate Senator Bill Stachowski, with the refreshingly stupid argument that “Debates are what career politicians do, and I’m not a career politician."

These reactions to, gasp, debates, are like something out of a seventies horror flick, with republicans playing the role of the unclean thing threatened with a bottle of holy water. You'd think, as someone of average intelligence, that debating is a useful skill for a legislator. Apparently, for our most worthy opponents, it's not a skill they'd like you to either observe or test.

On the web: Alice Kryzan for Congress

Heh. Anderson has a post about a new site exposing some republican, and helpfully points out a photo on said person's campaign site, as follows. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Dennis Delano.

Does that remind you of anything? Sure it does. John E. Sweeney.

Hey, it totally worked for Sweeney.