Hold your fire and think about it for a second! I can agree that Rossi didn’t run a passionate enough campaign but if he had gone after Murray as she deserved he would have immediately been slammed by her campaign and the local media (but I repeat myself) as an aggressive jerk. All the local feminists would who spend their lives insisting that they can do ANYTHING that men can do would have immediately fallen to the ground in a puddle of tears screaming, “He was mean to the girl!”
He was in a no-win situation and there wasn’t anyone else stepping up to take her on - we have a sad lack of VIABLE conservative candidates in Washington state because they all know that King County will pull out all the stops to elect the liberal....which is why we’re only one step behind California on the road to bankruptcy.
Unless you are willing to throw your hat into the ring you have no right to call Rossi names. He is a decent, caring man who sees the path our state and country are taking and he did his best to make his case to the voters. Sadly, too many of them don’t like the whole reality, personal responsibility thing and they wanted Patty cause “she brings home the bacon”!
Well, guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
For the past few days I have been talking Rossi up, on the basis that 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'. I was certain that he would fight this all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary (after all, that's what the dems did in FL in 2000).
I'll ask you this question: When the stimulus was rammed through, or the health care bill, or cap and trade (in the House, anyway), did you stop and say, "Well, at least my candidate was gracious in defeat and really played nicely by the rules"?
Politics is hard ball, and those who enter the arena must know this.
All that said, I must agree with you that I don't know Dino Rossi. And my name calling is out of line. For that, I apologize.
Perhaps it is time that we need a litmus test for candidates in California, Washington and Oregon. If you are not willing to go to the mat, say what needs to be said (even with the risk of being called 'racist' or 'too mean'), don't run. At this point, I could really care less about 'the type of campaign' one runs. My only concern is, are you willing to do whatever is necessary to win.