Weary with it.
Dear Steve Novick,
I am already sick of that line about “a fighter with a good left hook.” Actually I was sick of it, if possible, the first time I saw it in that introductory Willamette Week piece, for no other reason than the realization that I would be inundated with the line every time your name comes up and with every campaign appearance.
I can’t say that solving the problem of my antipathy toward your campaign slogan is worth the multitude benefits of the line, I being just one person floating out in the ether. Perhaps I am a bit tired at the moment, and perhaps that is the only reason I can say that I can’t for the life of me think of what clever line Gordon Smith could use to combat the line. I suppose he can just say he hooked you or something, but coming from him it’ll come across as just mean. So you have the “fighter with a good left hook” angle cornered.
Just the same between you and I, if — say — Earl Blumenauer is running in the primary against you — or whoever — I’ll likely vote for him/her simply to avoid several additional months of “Fighter with a good left hook” line.