Faraday, I’ll take that bet. How much cash are you putting up?

I personally worked for 3 years at a now defunct agency in San Francisco (of all places) called Gardner Geary Coll (which later changed its name to Maiden Lane). Bob Gardner, the president and founder, was a speech writer for Nixon and other Republicans and was a lifelong friend of Dick Cheney. He even helped Cheney with his political advertising. Bob’s office was decorated with signed photos from a number of very prominent Republicans.

Back in 2000 (1999?) at an agency morning meeting, Bob told all of us ahead of the official announcement that Cheney was being picked by Bush as VP. And at subsequent morning meetings he’d blather on and on about what a good guy Cheney was.

And before that, I worked at Elgin Syferd Drake in Boise, ID – which did political advertising for both Mike Crapo and Larry Craig. The vast majority of the people there were Republicans.

Go ahead and Google both agencies and Bob’s name to prove I’m not lying. I’ll wait. No really, I’ll wait.

So once again, before you go rant about how the sky is falling, maybe you should rethink things.