NEWSFLASH: Politics can be ugly. Also, water is wet.

[crispini]

With all of the people getting an attack of the vapors around here over the Hackett thing I have to conclude that there aren't enough of ya'll involved in politics at the local or county level. Because sometimes it's ugly, sometimes deals get made, people get their toes stepped on, and nowhere is that more apparent than true retail politics. It's sad but it's reality. Party leaders are ALWAYS gonna lean on races to try and get what they see is the "best" candidate in without a fight, and if you're one of those candidates, you make your own decisions and you can get out or you can fight back.

All part of how it's done, folks.

[Botany]

1. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav EDV?

but w/ a respect Bullshit!

The person to run should have been picked by the voters in Ohio .... not senators
from Nevada or New York. Hackett is just what the party needed in Ohio.

Brown will be painted as a big city liberal and DeWine will win again ....
with some help from Ohio's magic voting machines.

This stinks!

BTW ..... I quit Gull Bay ..... Patsy is better @ it then me. LOL

[crispini]

3. BWAH! I love that valentine.

I guess I'm just old and jaded, Cuddles, 'cause I've seen this happen before. Yeah, it'd be great if everybody always played nice and things went to the voters, but there is always a certain amount of manuvering that goes into the races even before the primaries. I mean this kind of thing goes on for freaking SCHOOL BOARD races, so why is everyone so freakin surprised when it happens in a Senate race?

[berni_mccoy]

2. You Are Right, I am just naive

to think that a Democrat could serve his country as a soldier in a war, come back a hero, run against a republican in a historically republican district and lose by less than 0.5% and then get the full, deserved, support of his political party.

Yep, I was naive.

:eyes: :sarcasm:

[crispini]

4. It's all about who can win.

Nice credentials, yeah. But for a candidate for U.S. Senate? In my state that race costs ten million dollars to run in. TEN MILLION DOLLARS. You think Hackett could have raised that kind of scratch?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. You are correct.

Those are just SOME of the reasons I am leaving the local party and registering as an Independent. I have been done real dirt and I will no longer associate myself with such people. They are beneath my dignity.

The quote from Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, in my sig, pretty well sums up my feelings toward them.