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New York Times: DOOM.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 26th, 2010 at 10:30 AM  | 

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The actual title isn’t that, of course.  The actual title is “Democrats Counting on Strength of Obama’s Get-Out-the-Vote Network“… which is merely semantically equivalent to the word/phrase/meme “DOOM.”  If you’re “counting on” getting enough voters out there to erase your own, admitted failure to be the perceived front-runner, then you’ve already lost and you’re just trying to avoid a rout*.  Thus it was for the Republican party in 2008 and 2006; and thus it was for the Democratic party in 2004 and 2002.  In all four cycles the afflicted party spoke of last minute GOTV pushes and the base coming home and whatever sudden wild hope erupted in the last week before the polls opened, while the party that was ahead collectively smirked and resolutely declined to remember when they did the exact same thing.  Admittedly, it’s great fun to watch, assuming of course if it’s not happening to you.

However.  WE CAN STILL LOSE.  So if you can vote early and haven’t, do that today.  And vote a straight ticket.  Governor, Lt. Governor, state-wide offices, Senate, House, state House, state Senate, county officials, judges, sheriffs, sewer commissioner, town executives, dog-catcher ,or even coroner (if you live in Louisiana).  Clean house.  The more states we control next January, the more states we can keep the Democrats from implementing the redistricting plots that they are undoubtedly plotting right this second (gerrymandering schemes are a hobby for their activists, or perhaps ‘fetish’ would be a better word); plus, every Democrat unceremoniously booted from lower office is a Democrat who is no longer going to be advancing up the ladder for higher office**.  And, of course, the more Republicans we elect the better our bench gets.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Virginia 2009 is a good example of what happens to a political party when they don’t avoid a rout.

**You like your personal Democratic politician?  Tell him or her to switch parties.  Because if left unchecked they’ll just eventually advance to the national level, where they will be promptly neutered and required to vote for whatever stupid idea the Democratic leadership is pushing that week.  See also: the 111th Congress.

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  • irishgirl

    Complacency and apathy about voting should not be tolerated at this juncture.

  • treeofliberty

    if you live in Colorado (Gov race)

  • partyof1

    let’s make it happen

  • jackhammer

    he should

  • smitch61

    This bad weather out here is today and not next Tuesday……. It is bad here in MI, and quite a few other states…… Thank the good Lord it is today. I wish I could vote early but we do not have it here….

    CONGRATULATIONS TO FORD MOTOR!

  • jccbin

    Seriously, what part of taking back our country did you miss?
    :-)
    Screw the (R)s if they are not conservative.

  • congressworksforus

    No way in hell Mike “Rino” DeWine (OH, AG) gets any votes out of this household!

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …to rejoin the party and guarantee that he will block any attempts by the Democrats to play redistricting games?

    You got a link for that?

    Moe Lane

    PS: Remember: ‘explicitly.’

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    If you don’t want to support a particular Republican in the general election, fine: but stop using the term “RiNO” in comments to this thread. I find it offensive, particularly when it’s coming from people who don’t respect my party’s primary system sufficiently to abide by it.

    Moe Lane

    PS: I don’t care about your justification, excuse, or rationale.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Tancredo will be better with redistricting than Hickenlooper. I don’t need a link for that.

  • mikerazar
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    And as Tancredo is on the record as mocking the Republican party in Colorado…

    ?What?s the point? I mean, if I can be more effective as governor, if the Republicans in the legislature are going to have their feelings hurt or whatever, then I?ll consider it. But really what?s the purpose? What do I need from [GOP Chairman] Dick Wadhams? Why would I argue anymore with the head of what might soon be a minor party?

    ?Look at the recent track record. Bush I and II and then McCain? I didn?t vote for Bush I in 1980. I was one of two GOP delegates to vote against putting him on the ticket with Reagan. I said, ?c?mon no way I?m voting for that guy.? It was me and one other delegate who voted against him.?

    Tancredo also dismissed the new Sarah Palin branch of the GOP.

    ?Palin, yeah. Where is she in the total scheme of things??

    ?My estrangement from the GOP is so long. In 1976 I ran for office. I sat in my mom?s kitchen [making fliers]. I never got a dime.?

    …yes, you do need a link for that.

  • powertothepeople

    Here we are seven days out of salvation and we still have people who know what the right thing to do is, yet still are crying over the fact there guy did not win or that the candidate who did win is not pure enough.

    Always comes from the ones who do little to help conservative causes, have no interest in running for office themselves, do not volunteer time to a conservative candidate, etc. They just want to bi*ch and complain that there is no one they like up for office and because of their “I won’t vote for him/her” attitude, we get another dem in office that votes for Reid or Pelosi as leader of the congress.

    And we wonder why so many races are so tight when they should be Republican Blowouts. Heath Shuler holding the lead is a prime example…..

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    I’m no fan, but he’s way better than Hickenlooper. Maes is now down around 4%, so he’s as likely as the Libertarian or Green candidate to win. This race is between Hickenlooper and Tancredo. I know which one I’d rather have in the Governor’s mansion for the next four years.

  • Common_Cents

    with potential shenanigans by the left, is it recommended to vote on election day and not early if at all possible?

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    So noted, thanks.

  • aesthete

    Except McCain, who will win anyways (I’m writing in Goldwater).

  • The_Gadfly

    but given some of Erick’s postings here I think the exception for Colorado is a variance Republicans can sustain, not unlike the exception we made for NY23 in the special election. Sometimes stinkers slip through and even in the general election you have to vote against them.

    But I concur that those stinkers have to be complete stinkers; otherwise you need to vote for the Republican because regardless of what you think of the actual contenders in your local race voting for the Dem is voting to sustain Back Seat Obama, Nanny Pelosi, and Dingy Harry.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Erick, of course, automatically wins these little disputes. :)

  • deano64

    smug satisfaction? We all saw how well this tactic worked in the last Presidential election. We really showed em didn’t we…?? McCain won the primary and like it or not he’s our guy this time around.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    because there were local judges being elected in which the libertarian had a chance to win, and I would love to see a libertarian or two in some judge-ships.

    Also there is one local woman running for a small local office who was running as a Republican, but I know her and she is a reprehensible person. So again, I voted for the libertarian, But I did not vote for any Donks.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    because there were local judges being elected in which the libertarian had a chance to win, and I would love to see a libertarian or two in some judge-ships.

    Also there is one local woman running for a small local office who was running as a Republican, but I know her and she is a reprehensible person. So again, I voted for the libertarian, But I did not vote for any Donks.

  • JSobieski

    The reason why a Republican should not vote against a Republican nominee is that the candidate won the plurality of Republican votes in the primary.

    If it is clear that the candidate no longer enjoys the support of vast majority of the Republican voters, loyalty to that candidate is misplaced.

    This rule is how one can reconcile, CO, NY-23, and telling Castle supporters to shut the bleep up after the DE primary.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    That’s something.

  • The_Gadfly

    We are on the same track here.

    Although I will confess I would have been quite happy to tell the Castle supporters to shut the bleep up BEFORE the DE primary. Charles Krauthammer excepted of course, no way I’d ever say bleep to them man so I’d have to find another way to say it.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Castle voters had to shut up because they lost a fair and credible primary election.

    NY-23 voters had no primary in the special election. So there was no fair and credible primary election. Note that when Hoffman lost a fair and credible primary election, he withdrew from the race and endorsed the Republican candidate.

    Maes won a fair and credible primary election. Tancredo didn’t even try to participate in it, and he is now running contrary to the legitimate Republican candidate.

    Try as people might, you cannot force me to say that an fair and credible primary election is neither when I don’t believe it. People who are supporting Tancredo are people who have rejected the decision of the Republican voters of Colorado in favor of their own candidate. This is a fact. I am not obligated to sugar-coat it for anybody.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Unless you believe that Maes’ 5% were the only Republican to vote in the primary.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    I take issue with Republican candidates that defacto endorse the Democrat in the race.

  • Superheater

    I think its important to remember 1994. Then like now, its a correction, not salvation.

    Anybody who thinks that political office will not provide an opportunity for candidates to be seduced by the dark side after taking office, well then I refer you to one Senator Lindsey Graham.

    Please, its the left that thinks of elections as canonizations. For us, its a job interview.

  • distantvoter

    The Democratic brand is so badly tarnished it has to be completely rejected.

    If I were in Colorado, I would vote Tancredo. He’s conservative, and a bigger rejection of the Democratic brand than Maes would be. And he has a chance.

    And if I were in NY 19, I would vote for a pro-baby-killing Republican, simply because the Democrat is no better on that issue and worse on everything else, and because the Democratic brand has to be punished.

    I’m not pro-Republican, because I don’t trust Republicans. But I’m more anti-Democrat than I’ve ever been in my life.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    That stance ended when he started talking favorably about the Democrat in the race. I was with you and Neil until then. Apparently the same goes for about 8% of the polled voters because that’s when Maes dropped from 12% to 4% .

  • powertothepeople

    and try to not take things so seriously. If you need a pulpit to preach from, just set one up. No need to nitpick and find a pulpit when none existed.

    I believe in one type of salvation and politics is not it. It was simply an over the top expression and nothing more.

    But since your pulpit is set up, preach on. You may have a need to let some things out so do not let me be the one to stop you.

  • Russ Martin

    I voted at lunchtime last Friday and there was a line. I’m in one of the most conservative counties in Texas, so I take that as a good sign for the conservative GOTV.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Murkowski up in Alaska is running a write-in candidacy and is effectively tied with the Republican nominee. Are we going to give her voters the same courtesy of respecting their right to demand a do-over? :)

  • Aaron Gardner

    Tancredo didn’t lose a primary and then go third party.

    All I am saying is that it isn’t primary voters having their choice rejected by some outside force, it’s primary voters rejecting their own choice.

    If you want to stop them from having that choice then we should just have the local GOP appoint who the candidate will be.

    Oops. ;)

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    At least Murkowski ran in a primary in the first place. :)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Everyone knows that’s what voting’s about: making yourself feel good.

    It’s not like there are national issues at stake or anything, forcing us to make the hard choices (which are really rather easy choices compared with those the founders made, but still).

  • Aaron Gardner

    I suspect there is a reason for that. ;)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I’m a Republican. I don’t have to apologize for voting Republican.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    There is no objective reason for Maes to try to throw the election to a Constitution party whack job, and favor one o pponent over the other.

    Tancredo deserves attacks. In fact Tancredo voters are going to be Maes’s most persuadable voters, so attacking Tancredo makes the most rational sen se as an electoral strategy.

    To expect him to ignore Tancredo and just attack Hickenlooper is ridiculous. After all, you Tancredo folk won’t stop attacking Maes.

  • JadedByPolitics

    who was visiting from California, now she was in a different area, so we used the internet to help us with the rest, but your proposition picks and the major picks were easy enough and of course everyone else with an R behind their name was chosen, though she was curious about them and so I pulled them all up for her, so thanks for the help :)

  • JSobieski

    The bottom line is that primary elections exist for the benefit of Republican voters, not Republican candidates and not Republican party officials.

    An individual Republican voter owes his or her fellow voters due respect for primary election results. However, if the aggregate population of Republican voters overwhelmingly rejects the results of the primary election (regardless of whether free and fair, although dishonest Manchurian candidates winning based on deceit is hardly fair), then the Republican voters are free to reverse that decision.

    Kind of like how a sustained super-majority allows the citizens of the US to change the Constitution in any way they see fit. To deny that reality is to deny the principle of self-government.

  • JSobieski

    But at 4%, its a different scenario.

    25% of the country thinks that 9/11 was an inside job.

    I didn’t criticize Maes for criticizing Tancredo before, but given the 4% and the trajectory of his campaign, Maes is in a unique situation.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    You obviously think comparing Tancredo’s situation to Murkowski’s is unfair (and offensive?) to the former, while I think that it’s the latter. :)

  • Aaron Gardner

    If Tancredo had done that what would you be saying?

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    NT

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Those ballots are just so much work, so ma ny things to vote on :)

  • JSobieski

    So she would fail the Maes standard.

    Nor were there clear factual lies about either Murkowski or Miller during the primary.

    My test has grey in it because it must deal with ambiguity.

    Your test seems to require supporting the R even if they turn out to be a child molestor.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    The only reason Maes is low is because Turncoat Tancredo and the RGA teamed up to bang on him all day.

  • Aaron Gardner

    I don’t find it offensive, just a non sequitur.

    What I am wondering about is the other 4 lines of text in my comment that have nothing to do with Alaska. ;)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I thought you wanted Maes to endorse another candidate.

    Now you don’t?

  • Aaron Gardner

    Let’s not act like Maes was some untarnished victim in all of this.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I just find it confusing that one minute you all want him to drop out, but the next you’re complaining that he has endorsed another candidate.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Don’t pull that crap on me.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    NRSC only took sides int he primary.

    RGA sided against the Republican in the general.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I assumed you were with Erick calling for Maes to drop out.

    Was I in error?

  • olsmithie

    err, that is tho say the wife and I got our early voting done yesterday.

    I even held my nose and voted for the Republican DA who has some rather nasty things hanging over his head from his last term. We’ll work on taking back the country first and deal with him later.

    I am hearing many concerns about Republicans taking control, then backsliding to their old habits.

    True, we can’t say for sure what some candidates will do once in office, but when compared to the Marxist candidates,( if I may use that term,)
    we have little choice but to regain power and hope we can rein in the “mavericks” that want to go back to the old “moderate” Republican stance that put us in this situation to start with.

    Regards,
    Olsmithie

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
  • JSobieski

    See Delaware.

    A successful kneecapping of a candidate by the party apparatus requires the complicity of the voters. Tancredo started to rise only when voters realized that Maes was a fraud.

    Tancredo was banging on Maes before the primary, but Maes was increasing in voter support up through the primary.

    I am not sure when the RGA got involved, but I believe that it occurred after the primary.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Maes was ahead or slightly behind in every two way matchup until all of this stuff started.

    In fact the only two way Maes was ever significantly behind in was a bad PPP poll where the question order ensured all the Tancredo backers said they were undecided.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
  • tngal

    Well, this reeks. A story in the New Bern Sun Journal says a Republican voter pushed a button at his electronic voting booth. The button would have voted down the republican line, giving him a straight ticket. Unfortunately….

    ” the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked”

    He tried again and he asked for staff help, but it still comes up all dem. Officials are said to be looking into the problem but consider how many people have already voted and maybe didn’t pay attention and just hit their one button and was out of there.

    http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/machine-91656-screen-voter.html

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    But Dan Maes running a state government would be like the average 8-year-old kid driving a car on an L.A. Freeway during rush hour traffic.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    I have a problem with him saying Hickenlooper would make a good governor.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • deano64
  • Aaron Gardner

    ;)

  • JSobieski

    My point was simply that every voter (or virtually every voter) will draw a line at a personal characteristic of a candidate that will trump their political views.

    Child molestation, treason, and other serious criminal conduct is where most people draw that line.

    Many Democrats have similar tests. Perot got votes in 1996 from die hard D’s who were personally repulsed by Clinton.

    If you believed that a Republican nominee for President of the US turned out to be a Manchurian candidate acting as an agent of a foreign power, you would vote D and so would I.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You have your candidate, I have mine. :)

  • JSobieski

    Its all one big mess. Nobody is denying the mess. But a mess is no reason to vote D or essentially vote D.

    A vote for Tancredo is a vote for the least smelly option at this point.

    I do have a probelm with Tancredo’s attacks on the GOP. I had a problem with McCain’s attacks on the GOP as well, but I voted for the guy with my nose fastened tightly shut by my left hand.

  • JSobieski

    And any NRSC intervention not clearly ratified by Republican voters should result in the resignation and public flogging of the individuals involved.

    4%. You don’t see numbers like that in politics.

    What percentage of the electorate believes that UFO’s have secret meetings with the White House?

    4%

  • Aaron Gardner

    Of course my candidate isn’t going around endorsing Democrats. ;)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You’re asking me to believe I should care whether the C or the D gets in, so much so that I turn my back on my party.

    I see no evidence that convinces me of that. In fact I researched Tancredo during the Presidential primaries and so I’m ambivalent between the two.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    :)

  • Aaron Gardner
  • JSobieski

    I am merely arguing to make it permissible to support Tancredo, i.e. provide sufficient “cover” to allow R’s to vote for Tancredo.

    This is roughly similar to my stance on the DE primary. I was hardly a Castle supporter, but I didn’t like how some in the conservative movement where characterizing Castle’s tepid supporters.

    I can totally understand not supporting Tancredo. I just don’t think party unity requires an R vote in this instance.

    If Maes wasn’t polling at 4%, I would be with you. I just think 4% is such a striking number that voting for the non-D makes sense so long as the non-D isn’t a green, socialist, or communist.

  • Christine (Trelaina)

    that given all the media coverage of voting machine issues, that people wouldn’t just push a button and walk out…especially if you are trusting one button to make a lot of voting decisions for you.

    I haven’t used one of the new machines since I moved to a more rural area of NC, but I recall that 5 years ago there were several steps you had to go through which would hopefully force you to pay attention…

  • Christine (Trelaina)

    that given all the media coverage of voting machine issues, that people wouldn’t just push a button and walk out…especially if you are trusting one button to make a lot of voting decisions for you.

    I haven’t used one of the new machines since I moved to a more rural area of NC, but I recall that 5 years ago there were several steps you had to go through which would hopefully force you to pay attention…

  • uselogic

    Wondered that myself. Vote early or vote on election day and keep an eye on said expected shenanigans?

  • chihank

    If Tancredo wins, then all eyes will be on him on whether he will align himself with the CO GOP or try to build the Constitution Party in CO. If Tancredo starts promoting 3rd party candidates if the CO GOP will be out of power for a long time.

    Also will the governorship encourage to Tancredo run as a 3rd party for President down the road?

  • tngal

    You have to go through every race. No wonder the guy’s upset. He’s also not buying the press release officials put out either. He was smart enough to look carefully. Hopefully others are being just as careful.

    I got no way of telling if our machine records properly. Just a paragraph at the end that says your vote has been recorded but no paper trail or anything.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Heh, not so much. Actually I think he gave them less than they deserve. The state GOP leadership dropped the ball from the beginning of this election cycle. In what should’ve been massive wins, we’re going to be lucky to come out with just a few.

  • JSobieski

    he will fail and Republicans will turn on him as quickly as they turned on Maes.

    Now the 3rd party presidential run, I’ll bet you that happens regardless of what happens in 2010. Tancredo is just that kind of guy.

  • acat

    Tancredo isn’t likely to do any better than Ross Perot as a third party figurehead… and Perot flamed out and crashed pretty effectively.

    That said, if Tancredo can attract enough Tea Partiers who are disgusted with the CO GOP status quo .. and based on Maes’ win in the primary they have significant numbers.. then it’s entirely possible he could build something new. In Colorado.

    Of course, a POTUS run just makes The Won’s re-election bid easier… or maybe makes Hillary’s run easier.

    Mew

  • aesthete

    I’d pull the lever for him. Heck, if he had a 10-15 pt lead, I’d do it, just to be safe. (For crying out loud, I voted and campaigned for him in ’08.) As is, he’s going to win by 20+ points. I value my purely emotional vote for Goldwater far above making McCain’s victory margin even greater.

  • Finrod

    I call this the Scozzfava rule.

    And when this happens, and there’s a legitimate 3rd party conservative candidate that isn’t completely hopelessly out of the race, then I think we should be ok with ditching the backstabbing (IMHO former) Republican and going with the 3rd party candidate. That’s the ONLY scenario I can see where it’s ok to not vote for the R in the general: when the R has made it very clear that they think it’s OK if the D wins the race.

    I never think it’s OK if the D wins the race. Any R that does is not worthy of my vote. I darn near didn’t vote for McCain in 2008 because he said he thought Obama would make a fine President. I rationalized it by voting for Sarah and her running-mate. To me, it’s more important to keep Democrats (and their fellow travelers, Greens, Socialists, Commies, etc) out of office than Republicans in office– which is why I voted for the R for President in 2008, to try to keep the D out of office. In 99+ percent of cases, these are the same thing, but on rare occasions, they aren’t.

  • Locked and Loaded

    vote early, then go to one of the polling places (not mine) where I might expect some untoward circumstances. Shenanigans is too nice a word for voter fraud.

    Honestly, free and fair elections are such a hallmark of American life, I think committing fraud in an election is a serious affront to liberty and should be a capital offense.

  • Locked and Loaded

    vote early, then go to one of the polling places (not mine) where I might expect some untoward circumstances. Shenanigans is too nice a word for voter fraud.

    Honestly, free and fair elections are such a hallmark of American life, I think committing fraud in an election is a serious affront to liberty and should be a capital offense.

  • l7squared

    I came across this site last spring.

    http://www.redistrictinggame.org/

    kind of fun …but something felt awkward.

    I noted the name USCAnnenbergProject on first page. I have no idea if this is the same annenberg that bumped elbows w/ Wm Ayers, but it set the hair up on the back of my neck.

    Then I saw FL amendments 5 and 6 and saw who was funding them. (SEIU being one of the largest contributers)

    I decided then and there that although I may not always vote Republican, I would never cast another Democrat vote again.

    Ever.

  • america1st

    . . . what letter is after the name as long as it is not a (D), an (S), and the candidate is the most conservative running with a realistic chance to win. This is why & where we disagreed before, Moe, when I said I’d not contribute to party campaign organizations, and this race is an excellent example.

    I have NO loyalty to the GOP. Yes, I usually vote a straight Republican ticket, but all too often this is an exercise in voting for the least offensive choices. I’ve not seen a (D) in at least twenty years which I could stomach – much less support with my vote. Supporting a RINO / dimLite alternative goes against my grain much of the time, also, but I will, unhappily, if this is the only realistic choice I have. That’s why I skipped eating breakfast and placed a clothes pin on my nose before voting for McAmnesty in 2008 (the first in fact and the second figuratively). Actually I voted for Palin in hopes they would win & the stress of the office would put “Reach Across the Aisle” McAmnesty into cardiac arrest before he could do much damage playing nice-nice with the dimwits.

    Maes is just another NY 23 type “Republican” – a dimLite who would run with pelosi if elected. We can do better and it seems most in the Colorado GOP have made a similar evaluation.

    Again, candidates, not party. You can list as many as obscure (to the nation) yet deserving GOP candidates as you wish, but I will not donate $0.01 to any organization which advances candidates such as castle, specter and the like. On the important issues, they sell out conservatives – just as Maes & murky are doing now.

  • america1st

    .

  • The_Gadfly

    on sending Back of the Bus Obama to the showers in 2012 to tolerate a third party candidate.

  • The_Gadfly

    more so on the “fair” side than the “credible.” It seems to me that there are two essential divides on this question. The first is those who expect everyone to walk in lockstep regardless of personal moral convictions. I will never do that, and I object most vociferously to anyone telling me I must. I suspect that if we were more than 30 days away from the election you’d agree with that, and might even agree today. If you don’t, end of discussion cause neither of us is changing the other’s opinion.

    That leaves the question of fairness. Some people would believe that suppressing certain information during a campaign is unfair. I haven’t followed the Maes-Tancradeo race, but based on the comments I’ve seen it seems to me that those backing Tancredo are essentially asserting that Maes won the race unfairly by suppressing certain information. I blame the LSM more than any of the candidates. They are the ones who are supposed to ensure the voting public gets the suppressed information so they can make an informed choice. By prostituting themselves to “social justice” they have have ceased to perform this critical function of our democracy.