Posted on 08/11/2005 9:36:24 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Reed Davis appealed to a few nutjobs. If they are so nutty that they were going to sit home or avoid voting against Osama Bin Murray, then they weren't worth trying to get their votes anyway. Give me a break! He got less then 7% of the vote!
You don't live in Washington, do you?
Clearly within striking distance - no one knows who the Republican is yet - he needs to define himself before Cantwell does.
I saw that too.
It looks like there's still a haze of illegitimacy around Gregoire. That's good.
My concern is "How long will that last?"
The average voter typically has a short memory when it comes to stuff like this.
I hope the voters of Washington state never forget how the Dems manufactured a win out of very thin air.
Hopefully she'll take a page from the Erskine Bowles campaign playbook and patiently wait for McGavick to build name recognition and launch an ad blitz against her before she starts to hit back.
The WSRP said "fine", immediately gave up, and didn't appeal to the WA Supreme Court, common sense, or anywhere else.
So now, most people will think "the judge ruled that The Bitch won, so the democRats must not have stolen the election", and they can steal another one next time.
It 'might' not have lasted if Gregoire had, say, actually governed as the moderate she pretended to be during the campaign. Heck, had she just continued on like a Gary Locke clone, I think she might be alright.
Instead, she goes around raising taxes a lot, and putting emergency clauses on bills so we can't have a referendum on them, playing musical chairs with all the state agency folks, and basically doing everything that Rossi said she was going to do during the campaign.
I-912 is in large part not even about the gas tax as much as it is about Gregoire. It's NOT going away. If it was going to go away, it would have gone away by now. Instead, I-912 just proves it's snowballed.
Rossi is smart, and will stay in the public eye. He's writing a book right now, I'm imagining it'll be out next year sometime, and he'll continue to show up at various events and keep in contact with groups that have been good to him and such etc.
My only fear, is that they will 'Lowrey' Gregoire, and end up running Aaron Reardon (Snohomish County Executive who is young and VERY ambitious), whom I thnk would be much harder to beat.
But I think Rossi has built up so much goodwill that he'll win nomatter what, and I think Reardon will probably take a pass till '12 or '16.
Rossi will be Governor come January '09. You can take that to the bank barring him getting killed in a car wreck or something.
He lost my vote with his blatant backslapping in the Senate, refusing to vote Guilty to obvious perjury when Sh$%head Clinton was impeached.
I do not, under any circumstances, support sleazy weasel politicians like that.
And I'm not the only one. IIRC, Skeletor Gorton lost by about 3,000 votes - the Libertarian pulled over 64,000 votes, including mine.
Actions by sleazy politicians have consequences now and then. Ask Wyche Fowler as well.
Good question. Will he run?
Mike McGavick is the ex-CEO of Safeco, a major corporation. He was once Chief of Staff or then-Sen. Slade Gorton, and his father is a former state Representative. Gorton is his mentor, and their politics are believed to be similar. He has some name I.D. in the Pudget Sound area.
Dino Rossi has stated he's not interested in being Senator.
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