AH, OS ACÉFALOS!
«Thus the Democrats, lacking a candidate of any heft or beam and facing an issue forced upon them, will have to do either one of two things: they will have to swallow the issue themselves and so reduce the contest to a mere sham battle, or they will have to pussyfoot. (...) In politics, the first candidate who grabs an issue always gets the best of it. The plain people distrust the trailer, particularly if his vacillations have been public and their distrust has a sound instinct under it. Whoever is nominated by the Democrats will be a palpable fraud.»
(H. L. Mencken, Outubro de 1923, a propósito da eleição que daria um segundo mandato ao republicano Calvin Coolidge)