"These are some long, tiring days," Thompson said to himself as he breathed a sigh of relief and settled into a comfortable sleeping position. "It's not easy protecting democracy every day, but somebody's got to do it. It's all the copying and pasting that gets me. ‘Control-C, Control-V.' My fingertips are killing me. At least I can rest in the knowledge that I did my job well."

Thompson had received his marching orders earlier in the day from Democratic campaign operatives before going about his normal daily tasks of parroting key party talking points in every article, column, and blog post.