Bobo brooks: "outlaw IMing after 10 p.m"

* on lehrer:

"DAVID BROOKS: Well, like I say, so far, I'm sort of with Mark on the seriousness of (Masturgate). So far, there's no evidence of it, if you look at the key races. As I say, there's no movement.

Nonetheless, I do think, when you look at it and you just go around and talk to people, you do find this intense alarm. This country is filled with people -- including myself -- whose kids are on IM all hours of the night. You have no idea what's going on, what they're saying.

I often say to candidates, "You know, if you go out in the country and you say, 'I will outlaw IMing after 10 p.m., you will win. I don't care what else you stand for; you will get parents supporting you." Because people, they've built this shell for themselves, their home and their family, but things are coming in outside the shell -- IM, cable TV, all this other stuff -- that they're really worried about."