*Who besides Newt Gingrich knew before South Carolina that there was an effective “mistress card” to be played?
*When it comes to moderating a presidential debate, I’ll take NBC’s Brian Williams over anybody else. But I still miss Tim Russert.
*Let’s hear it for enforcing the “no applause” rule during debates. It won’t prevent pandering, but it keeps a presidential debate from morphing into an unseemly side show unworthy of the process.
*What was with that supersized headline in last Thursday’s Tampa Tribune informing us that there was, drum roll please, such a thing as The No Name Group in our midst? The point size was worthy of V-J Day. Trilateral dining in downtown?
Turns out that folks such as Tom James, Rhea Law, Jeff Vinik and Sandy MacKinnon get together over lunch from time to time and typically talk about more than families, sports and the weather. Of course they would. If there’s a story here, it would be that in a market such as Tampa Bay, with all its moving parts and key players, there were no such group.