Nevada Sen. John Ensign explains, via Politico.
“For the people who want to beat Harry Reid, you’d have a second Senate race [in 2010] and that takes the focus off Harry Reid."
Ensign also claimed political candidates aren't cutting ties to him, which, actually, is kind of true.
On September 15, Republican Senate candidate, Danny Tarkanian, showed no signs of distancing himself from Ensign.
“I’m not going to shy away from him. Senator Ensign is our senior Republican senator here. I don’t see how he’s not going to be part of a Republican trying to unseat the Democrat in the state he represents. I would welcome his support.”
P.S. If Keats were alive, he'd note the phonetic similarities between "Ensign" and "Resign". But he's dead. So that's my job.
Speaking of Keats, Adam Kirsch had a terrific and comforting write-up on him last year. You can file this anecdote away if anyone's ever tried to sully your literary ambition.
After his first book, “Poems,” appeared, in 1817, his publishers, the brothers Charles and James Ollier, refused to have anything more to do with him.
In a letter to the poet’s brother George, they wrote, “We regret that your brother ever requested us to publish his book, or that our opinion of its talent should have led us to acquiesce in undertaking it.”
They went on, “By far the greater number of persons who have purchased it from us have found fault with it in such plain terms, that we have in many cases offered to take the book back rather than be annoyed with the ridicule which has, time after time, been showered upon it.”
