Great.

My choices for Representative to the US Congress this election are an alleged wife beater and an anti-semitic, scofflaw with apparent ties to terrorist supporting organizations.

Lovely.

Here's the thing, though; I'm not really worried that the alleged wife beater (who's own brother had nothing nice to say about him, by the way) is going to show up at my house and slap me around.

The other guy, however, even if his apparent ties to TSO's are flimsy as smoke, is in fact a member of the party that refuses to take the terrorist threat seriously.  He belongs to the party, that if they retake the house, want to revert to the pre 9-ll method of treating terrorism as a criminal matter.

Remember how well that worked?

I know some folks would counter with saying that the war hasn't worked out so great either, but I say they're wrong.

Consider:  3000 civilians vs. 19 of their guys during a 2 hour window.

Or:  approaching 3000 of our guys, mostly combat trained volunteers vs. two terror sponsoring regimes, a separate anti-American weapons program, dozens of terrorist cells world wide, hundreds of terrorists off the streets and in Gitmo where we can extract info from them and tens of thousands of their guys dead.

I like the odds in the second scenario better.

So I'm going to hold my nose and vote for the alleged wife beater and hope that next time his party can come up with a less stinky candidate.

I don't hold out much hope, however.  As a conservative, I firmly believe that anyone who would even consider running for elected office must have something fundamentally wrong with them.

That's just one more apparent difference between libs and cons.  Libs seem to think that getting elected equals canonization and Cons view anyone who would even try with suspicion.

I think that's why we're so quick to dump wretches like Foley ("See?  I knew there was something wrong with him.") and they're so willing to pardon pieces of filth like Mel Reynolds  ("Gosh, he served for years.  Why ruin his life over this?").  It's not so much a double standard as it is alternate universes.

This election season has done nothing to convince me that I'm wrong about the pychological screws that must be loose or even missing in anyone who runs.

 

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