what skalise has going for him is the fact that we don t have the transcript of what skalise said or the video of what skalise said. if this turns out to be a boilerplate speech, it s a lot different nan what trent lott said he was supporting what thurman was doing. i guess, though frapg, we were in that post eric ericson, the conservative bloger put up saying how kwould you not know it s david duke s event. i guess we re saying this conference occurred in 2002 that duke had come within three-points of making it to a run aif for a congressional seat in louisiana. he made the gubernatorial runoff. in was a guy who definitely had a conservative political con stitch when esill in louisiana. is it plausible with a very ambitious audience wouldn t know