Obviously they were thinking of Darren McGavin, who saved Seattle from The Night Strangler.

If he can save Seattle from serial killer werewolves, he's got my vote!

Hey, at least they're not pointing out that serial liar Alaskan Mike McGavick, in addition to losing 3:2 in what was billed as a close race that he overspent on, is being "vouched for" by a known adulterer who lied in public about using his mayoral mansion for extramarital liaisons ...

It's not looking good for Alaskan Mike. If he was honorable, he'd admit it and stop running such a dishonest and dishonorable campaign.

It still says Mike McGavin on this page: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html

LOVE the japan/GHWB puke reference. Those were the days.

I wouldn't be too quick to correlate the primary turnout with the general. Neither Republicans nor Democrats had to vote at all in the primary to express a preference, since neither McGavick or Cantwell had a challenger. You might be able to read the leaves as a failure of the right wing to get out the vote for Groen, and those missing R voters might well turn up in November. We also haven't seen the megabucks media blitz from Mikey yet. It still might be close.

I wouldn't be too quick to naysay the strong primary showing with a reality check that the vaunted GOP base has no love for Bush and his six years of failures and will instead sit out the election so that his handpicked liar Alaskan Mike never has a chance.

Just my gut feel. Which is usually right, although I didn't have a strong read on the primary this year (odd, that).

Let's not underestimate Mike! for one second.

Remember not too long ago, we came within 125 votes of having that stupid, Bush clone Dino Rossi as our governor.
That almost made ME puke on the Japanese ambassador.

Don't give Mike! or the R voters one inch. They'll close in for the kill if you show them any sympathy.

The 1st & only honest & intelligent column Susan Paynter has ever written. Ever.

Cantwell organizer strangely silent
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

By SUSAN PAYNTER
P-I COLUMNIST

Gee, Mark and I used to talk all the time.

When he was organizing Veterans for Peace.

When he was organizing demonstrations to end the war in Iraq.

When he was organizing a symbolic but seemingly sincere campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell by blasting her support for Bush's war and her opposition to a swift withdrawal of troops.

But ever since Marine Corps vet Mark Wilson crossed "enemy lines" to accept $8,000 a month to work as an organizer for -- not against -- Cantwell's re-election he doesn't call, he doesn't write, he doesn't return messages.

Before I headed to the polls on Tuesday (I still trudge to the booth in person), I wanted to ask Wilson, "How's it been going?" How, I wondered, does he feel his fervent fight for peace has fared in this campaign?

After a few early appearances on the stump as Cantwell's poster peacenik and liaison to the left, Wilson became something of an invisible man. He showed up at a few events but, after being booed for boilerplate answers about the war, his words and presence evaporated from print.

Monday, on my third try to reach Wilson, I was asked what, exactly, it was that I wanted to ask him. Sorry, but if I won't tell Bill Gates, Sen. Patty Murray or the head of the Aryan Nations precisely what I plan to ask, I'm not going to tell Mark Wilson.

I gave the nice lady on the line a general idea and my calls were forwarded to Amanda Mahnke of the Cantwell campaign, who at first responded with the encouraging words, "What's your deadline? Would tomorrow be too late?"

But somebody at headquarters must have sniffed trouble because next came this message from Mahnke: "Mark is an organizer, not a campaign spokesperson, and won't be available to talk for your piece." Or his peace, either, apparently.

It was widely assumed that Cantwell hired Wilson to induce him to drop out of the race against her. It's now also assumed that he is paid to shut the heck up and do little else. Kind of like the political equivalent of a farm subsidy.

Now that the primary is past and in the run-up to the November vote, you have to wonder what he'll be paid not to do next. If the aim is to persuade anti-warriors not to vote for Green Party candidate Aaron Dixon or Libertarian Bruce Guthrie, good luck.

"Mark's experience as a candidate, military veteran, Teamster, progressive activist and small-businessman make him an ideal person for the Cantwell campaign's outreach director," Cantwell campaign manager Matt Butler said back when Wilson was hired.

True, Wilson made a run for Congress as a Libertarian in 2002 and for the Senate as a Green in 2004 (before almost running for the Senate as a Democrat in 2006). So far, he's been almost everything except Republican. But one has to wonder how much campaign cred he's retained with those folks. Or with Veterans for Peace. Or the media. Or anyone else for that matter.

"When he (Wilson) first joined the Cantwell campaign his strategy was to compliment me, saying that he was more in line with me on this issue (immediate withdrawal from Iraq) and what an honorable person I am," Hong Tran told me Monday night. She was the Senate candidate and Seattle legal-services lawyer who held Cantwell's feet to the fire on the war throughout the primary.

Early on, when she and Wilson appeared together on the campaign trail, Tran says people started heckling and yelling at Wilson when he gave a stock stump speech instead of answering questions about Cantwell's stance on the war, her failure to oppose controversial U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and other issues.

Anti-war and pro-choice people turned increasingly to Tran for their voice, leaving Wilson with little to say. And, increasingly, he said little.

Is Tran surprised at Wilson's disappearing act? "No," she said, "because the reception he got in those initial appearances was so negative."

It must seem like a long, long time from now till November for the once passionately vocal Wilson who, just over a year ago, told me, "The spotlight on these peace efforts is spreading. People are increasingly encouraged to raise tough questions about those Iraq bases and the lack of an exit strategy."

The year before that, Wilson was told by one Seattle hot talk host that he was "not a real Marine" because of his ardor against the war.

At peace rallies here and in Bremerton, Wilson was shouted down as unpatriotic for not supporting our troops. Now he's no longer shouted down, just muzzled.

I remember -- back when we talked a lot -- Wilson said of real war that, "Ultimately your spiritual and emotional health is robbed."

After the campaign wars are over, I wonder how he will, again, make peace?

word, Andrew!

The 1st & only intelligent & honest interview Dave "Mutt" Ross has ever done with a Democrat: This morning, with McDermott, about the FB-Eye raid against the Baath Party charity scam that paid for Bag Jim's 2002 pimp trip to Baghdad. (That's when McDimwit said we can trust Saddam, but not Bush. That's the Saddam who ran the rape rooms, kiddy prisons, and human-hamburger shredders.)

Ross asked 1 1/2 tough questions, then let McD baffle & bury him in bullshit. Still, 1 1/2 isn't bad for a gutless treacherous little left-wing hack.

A vote for Cantwell is a vote for werewolves and night stranglers.