I'm with ya, Libertina, but who have we got in the wings to take her on in '04? The last gubernatorial election, all we could muster in the Pubbie primary was a state senator from Moses Lake (yes, its the stix!) who advocated teachers packing firearms as his answer to Columbine (imagine how that went over with left winger Seattle teachers!), and a talk-show host who had never been elected to office. The talk-show host (John Carlson) is a nice guy, and very intelligent, to boot, but did poorly against the incumbent, who is not even well liked by his own Rat base.
We can't win elections unless we have viable candidates, and I don't see that many coming on the horizon. All the Republicans have been able to produce on a statewide level are aging dinosaurs from Eastern Washington who can't get taken seriously west of the Cascades, and Slade Gorton, who gets pilloried every time he has to cover his butt with the liberal half of the state.