This is a great article. The Dems are all up in arms regarding Florida and Michigan.
His answer? Too bad.
I especially like this quote: ”They’re excuses. If this race wasn’t so close, or if these states offered a combined 36 delegates instead of 366, do you really think anyone would care? Of course not.” This is precisely the point.
They’re acting like pissed off kids at the playground. There are decisions and then there are consequences. As one of my professors says in his funny accent, “Too bad, so sad.”
I wonder if the Dems understand what asses they’re making of themselves? Nice job, folks.
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal (I believe–I read it in my bathroom, have no idea where it went), last week, and they did a side by side comparison of Michelle Obama and Jackie O. I know the Kennedys are fellating Obama because of this new hope and the resurrection of JFK, but I think having your wardrobe look just like Jackie’s is taking it a bit too far, from the cut of the dresses right down to the double strand pearls. Come on, Michelle, create your own style. Imitation might be the best form of flattery, but going to this point can make you look like a fool.
Man, I wish I’d've set that section aside. Rats.
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McCain has been very quiet, wandering aroundthe country, doing town hall talks, his latest trip has been to Pennsylvania. He’s minding his own business, not commenting on the fracas on the opposing team. He’s talking about drunken sailors and congressional spending, rolling his eyes about bear DNA and railing against the mismanagement in Iraq.
Robert Shendock states in his blog that all the nay-sayers have disappeared, and are now behind McCain, and states that this will be the fact once there’s a clear cut nominee for the Democrats. I don’t agree; if Clinton wins the bloody fight, she’ll be insanely divisive; if Obama gets it, then Clinton will make damn sure that he won’t win–remember, she’s already made the comment that McCain is better than Obama.
Back to McCain, though: Shendock seems to not have been in politics long. There is nothing new about dissenters from within a party who don’t like a particular candidate standing behind the same candidate once he or she is nominated. There’s one thing about party politics, and that is a divided party is destructive. It’s true in the Arizona realm: the Republican party is rent from within and they can’t figure their asses from their elbows.
This is really true for how else would Do-Nothing Harry get into office? See, the Dems were smart: play on the hometown sentimental factor. JD Hayworth, in my eyes, was a good congressman, but he blew that election. Harry Mitchell is a former teacher (and not a terribly good one; he taught at my high school, as did his wife), and God only knows who talked him into running. But he’s known in East Valley educational circles, and he’s a favorite of the ASU faculty crowd (the second largest contributor to his campaign). And, in so many years of teaching, former students flocked to vote for him–not necessarily because he was a good teacher, but because he was a known factor to them, and not this relatively distant and outspoken Hayworth guy (who’d been squeaking by in previous elections anyway). So BAM! there goes JD’s seat, all because of the mostly sentimental vote.
But anyhow…
Have a great weekend! The weather is gorgeous today; it’s sacriligeous to be inside an office. buh-bye!
