The Great West Wing Rewatch: 7.2 "The Mommy Problem"
Joel: There is so much hand wringing here about whether or not Santos should report for his National Guard training, with the argument against it will be that the timing of it will look like a political stunt. Now I understand that I am not a political consultant, and I get that there are people who are paid a whole lot more than me to understand the political landscape a whole lot better than me, but to me it seems like anything and everything that these two guys do from here to election day is going to seem like a political stunt on one level or another. When Vinick visits both the border patrol and the minutemen in the same trip, that comes off as politics and it should. When Santos speaks at a predominantly black church, how are we supposed to interpret that if not political at least on some level. When people pay for air time to air negative campaign ads they aren’t trying to warn us about something out of the goodness of their heart, they air because somebody is trying...