Has DCCC Taught Dan Seals Anything Since 2006? Hmmm... Maybe They Better Put Him On the Emergency Plan...

Dan Seals got some good name exposure over the weekend with an Associated Press article that purported to examine lessons learned by candidates who are trying for the second (or third, or fourth, in the case of Jim Oberweis) time to achieve elected office.

I am rather amazed at how shallow some news articles are (even the AP), in that if you read this article, you come away with absolutely no information about Dan Seals, where he stands on the issues, how he claims to be better than Mark Kirk, and exactly what lessons he learned since 2006. Maybe it's just me, but aside from 'start earlier' in the campaign cycle, I'm not sure the article revealed anything Seals learned. Regular readers here know that the AP could have really penned a hard-hitting article on the Seals campaign if they wanted to, and had done their homework (heck, we've pretty much laid it all out right here at Team America).

In any event, my point is that clearly, Seals hasn't learned truthfulness, and in fact, seems to be compounding his falsehoods by puffing his resume with 'professor-gate', 'intern-gate' and 'director-gate.'

Do you think Seals has learned any REAL lessons from last campaign? I bet right now, Seals is feeling his oats from his recent trouncing of Jay Footlik, but now it's a whole new ballgame.

Also, those who kept up with comments over the weekend are aware that self-proclaimed DCCC employee and blog commentor "Flounder" (as we have nicknamed him) appears to have admitted that DCCC was secretly supporting Seals during the primary by supplying campaign workers and who knows what else. (Maybe someone can try to track down some matching documentation showing exactly what support DCCC was giving, now that the cat's out of the bag.)

I wonder, though, at whether the DCCC minions were successful at giving Seals any pointers, and whether DCCC is at all concerned that Seals numerous foibles are now coming out into the open.