Christine Gregoire: Clueless Ingrate
Via Drudge, I, er, found my way to this obscure local publication…
A hero to the party’s anti-war left, fiery controversial Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean spoke to 1,200 people in Olympia at the Democrats’ annual crab feed Monday night.Gov. Christine Gregoire’s aides expended a bit of energy figuring ways to assure that their boss was NOT photographed with Dean.
The governor did greet Dean, in the safety of a private reception.
Keep it up, Christine, and all the liberals and progressive and Dean supporters who rushed in to save your muddle-of-the-road ass during the recounts last November will sit on our hands and wallets when you’re up for re-election in 2008—and you’re going to need us in 2008, Christine. Josh Feit put it well in a column last December…
Throughout the campaign, Gregoire decided she had to woo those suburban undecideds. She refused to be the type of candidate liberal King County voters dig: one who takes strong positions and stands up loudly for the Democratic base. Instead, she talked in generic sound bites about “jobs,” kowtowed to the anti-tax crowd by running hit ads against Rossi for supporting the transportation gas tax, and fell far short on gay rights.The centrist strategy failed. She lost in swing turf like Snohomish County (by 6,000 votes). And so much for catering to the red half of the state: Christine “Washington is not ready for gay marriage” Gregoire didn’t win a single county east of the Cascades.
Now, she’s turning to the one county, King, where she walloped her opponent by 154,000 votes and counting, literally. (At least she finally has a campaign theme and a sound bite—“Count Every Vote”—something her tepid, centrist campaign lacked prior to November 2).
Well, we’re glad to help you, Christine, but damn if you don’t owe us for keeping you alive. Not only did you rely on King County’s trove of votes to get you out of your mess—but it took a plea by the Ă¼ber-liberal group MoveOn.org and Seattle’s favorite lefty, Howard Dean, to scare up the money for your recount…. Gregoire took us for granted, and look what happened: 75,135 people who voted for John Kerry in King County did not vote for her. If she had scooped up just 135 of those votes, she would have won by a landslide compared to where it stands now.
Too late. The only reason I didn't vote for Rossi was because I thought this would be an insane four years for social issues, particularly rights the gays. At least, I thought, Rossi would be good in a balance of power kind of way.
Any chance another democrat might go up against her? She is a joke, she will lose the next election, and make Washington a headline making laughing stock where "a democrat incumbent lost by a landslide in one of the most liberal states in the nation".
I'll be at least partially responsible for that if a republican who isn't a totally homophobic asshole who shows he can manage his personal finances runs against her.