SPECIAL POST
It seems to me that when you lose, you lose. I know that as a kid, if I lost a game of chess, I’d just throw all of the pieces on the floor. That of course, made me the winner, because I’d then get up and walk out of the room to leave my opponent with the chore of cleaning up the mess. What a real sport I was.
Turning to politics and the primaries, you’ve had more than one candidate lose to his or her opponent and then decide to run as a third party candidate or even, most recently, a write-in candidate. The theory is this: With three candidates in the race, and with your position now drawing from the other two candidates, you could theoretically win even though you lost.
Here’s how crappy this end-run game plan gets. If you had 100,000 voters in the primary and you lost with only 40,000 votes, then you had 300,000 people turn out for the general election and you won with 110,000 votes, you actually won the whole ball game while being a minority vote-getter. You effectively cheated, in this case, 190,000 people who voted against you in the general election and you only had 110,000 votes.
To me, this goes against the grain of a fair game and it is unethical. Those who play this game including Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Florida’s Charlie Crist should be ashamed of themselves. This is straight from the playbook of “politics as usual,” that we’re all so sick and tired of. You know full well that, if elected back to Washington, they’ll continue to play those games that got us all into this mess. We need good leaders who will fairly represent our interests, not good politicians who spin, twist and don't give a damn about what the voters want.
Don’t be to blame for more crapola in politics; don’t vote for this type of candidate.
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