DENVER — It's hard not to get swept up by the convention here in Denver. As a student of politics, it's almost intoxicating.

In college, my passion for politics very nearly stole me away from my first love: the pen. In fact, for nearly four semesters, I seriously flirted with the idea of pursuing a career as a speechwriter. Peggy Noonan's musings about her years with Reagan and Bush were junk food for this diabetic political kid lost in the candy store.

But one disappointment after another steered me away from stormy partisan waters into the calm seas of journalism (relatively speaking, of course).

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