The Occasional Observer

which is probably just a signal that I need to get out more. Anyway, a poster named Alaska Jake over at R 4 '08 had this to say about the news that Manuel Miranda and Rick Valentine had endorsed John McCain:

This isn’t directed at any one person, but doesn’t it seem like way too many people have an unusually high regard for their own opinions this year? I never saw so many endorsements from people with such little influence being thrown around by all the candidates like they are this year. Congressional legal counsels, former GOP county committeepeople, a past FCC chairman, losing campaign policy wonks, and nearly every minister south of the Mason-Dixon Line, all find their own endorsements worthy of publicizing to the entire world. I find that when any campaign releases so many endorsements from the lowest level of politics, it lessens the value of the big ones, to me anyway.