i ll give you a chance to clarify. she says ari reed has called you his pet. i don t know why harry reid said that. i m nobody s pet. i m going to be a bulldog for delaware. i m running to represent all delawareans of whatever party, not just the democrats and i ve got a significant amount of support from independent, from republicans, from democrats, from all three counties, i ve got a record of independence and of fighting for the public interest as county executive and i would continue that in washington. just to clarify the point from earlier, just to make sure we tie this up, earlier you said you didn t want to have to talk about comments you made years ago about witchcraft and stuff like that. but in this commercial that s so widely seen you begin the commercial with the words i am not a witch. to put it to rest. what were you thinking? to put to it rest. didn t you realize if you do that in a commercial it would just revive it and everybody would be talking about