Re the dust-up over Joe Klein’s advice to John Kerry in 2004: I think the rule has to be that if a candidate or campaign aide asks you, as an opinion journalist, for advice, you can only repeat something you have already written or say something you’re about to write. You can’t be playing some behind-the-scenes role your readers don’t know about.

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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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