One of the rules of politics ought to be not to use ignorant sports analogies. In the New York Times, the odious California Democratic Party hack Bob Mulholland boasts from the Gray Davis camp, “We are at the beginning of spring training, and we already have our team, and we know what the issues will be…While the Republicans are starting spring training, and they don’t have a quarterback.”

“Spring training” is a baseball term, not a football term, and it’s never held in July. “Training camp” is the term the Democrat is fumbling for. To demonstrate which party’s operatives have a better grasp of being athletically correct, GOP spokesman Rob Stutzman comes back with the analogy, no doubt responding to the reporter’s suggestions, and nails the baseball analogy: “They may be in spring training, but there are going to be all kind of clubhouse brawls.”