Just saw an amazing video of Ned's townhall meeting in Hamden, CT.

This has to be one of the best campaign stumps I have seen, period.

Perfect note and perfect tone! And very inspiring.

(Crossposted elsewhere.)

Ordinarily, putting up a diary about a for-profit political enterprise is a no-no in these parts.  But I think this one is different from the average company-whoring piece in two ways: one, I'm not the person operating the company, and two, buying merchandise from this organization actually is a concrete step toward making a blog cause celebre a reality.

The site is Weicker for Senate 2006 Merchandise, and its purpose is to get out into the community material endorsing the draft candidacy of Lowell Weicker, Jr. against the most odious figure still in the Democratic Party: Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman.  The site operator, a friend of mine who goes by the nom de blog strandsofpearl, wishes both to make a little money off her beautiful designs (exhibited below) and to place so many bumper stickers, buttons, and shirts in the Connecticut community that Weicker will see them and realize the popular support for his candidacy is there.