Gary Pearce says N.C. Appeals Court Judge Doug McCullough didn't do anything wrong.

The Democratic political consultant writes on his blog that McCullough's recent statement that Republicans need to re-elect Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds to help Republicans during legislative redistricting was simply true:

The truth is that the 2008 and 2010 elections are critical to the long-term political future of North Carolina. Whichever party controls redistricting—in the legislature and in the courts—has a leg up on political control in the next decade.

Pearce says Democrats did "a pretty good job" last time defending their interests and should have no illusions that Republicans will not try to do the same.

He also paraphrases Michael Kinsley's definition—a favorite of Dome's—of a gaffe as when a politician accidentally tells the truth.