Rule: For every red gaff, you have to use a blue gaffe.

Best red gaffe:

Meg Whitman: "Thirty years ago, anything was possible in California."

Jerry Brown: "Yeah, if we could only get that governor back."

(Jerry brown had been governor for the five years prior to her quoted date of the Golden State's fabulosity.)

Best blue gaffe:

Question from reporter: "What is the secret here to turn out? In the old days, the old machine days, what we called