a blast from the past: Pat Schroeder!

Man, I hadn't thought about her in a long time! After 12 terms representing a strongly Democratic U.S. House district in Colorado, Patricia Schroeder was rather famous on the national political stage. But Rep. Schroeder was unimpressive (i.e., how did she get elected?)-- and in 1988, a brutal Democratic presidential candidate. She has faded away in the public eye after retiring from the U.S. House in 1997.

But as the president/CEO of a national trade association for the book industry, she was back in the news last week about the book survey I talked about last week. She was trying to use the survey results as ammo against conservatives and Republicans. Instead, it revealed her as a partisan hack (still), a publicity hound, or ignorant of basic statistics.

Debra Saunders nicely takes her to task in this insightful and amusing piece.