I’m not surprised. I’ve been in politics to know you don’t win all the time. Much of the time, my candidates lose. But there is never a perfect candidate, ever.
Whenever you decide to run for office, though, I will send you money. Because I know there will be no issues whatsoever that a social and fiscal conservative like myself can support.
But until you do run, I’ll just have to make the best of whoever decides to run for office.
In the case of yesterday’s election, it was Vitter.
This has nothing to do with anything but the party unable to control a candidate with a prostitute problem and convince him not to run. Vitter convinced himself he was viable. Edwards went after him on morality issues to which he was vulnerable.
You want to personalize this. It’s not about that. Vitter had a prostitute problem and upon being reminded of it however many thousands of times, the electoral decided not to elect vitter.
That’s why you don’t run a candidate with a prostitute problem.
No amount of castigating the voters changes the fact that vitter did himself in by having a prostitute problem.
Pointing that out politically isn’t claiming moral superiority. It’s bad politics to have run vitter for governor.
It will be bad if he tries to run for reelection now.
He can make his peace with God. I don’t care. Just do it outside of politics now that the people have spoken