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Clint Didier: He came, he lost, he whined

I usually wouldn't crosspost local stuff, but this could be an important race, and I don't think it's getting enough coverage.  Just putting this out there: I'm totally willing to say I slept with Dino Rossi to increase coverage.

My entire beef with the Teaparty movement (which doesn't mean I'm anti-teaparty movement) can be summed up in Clint Didier's oozing sore loser concession speech to Dino Rossi this morning.  Summary:  He's withholding his endorsement of Rossi until Rossi can commit to things Rossi's stood for all along. 

KIRO7: Didier said he wants to endorse Rossi if the Republican will promise to support pro-life issues, pledge no new taxes and show that he's serious about cutting federal spending.

Didier's still trying to make a winner out of his losing campaign strategy that Dino Rossi is some kind of RINO.  Apparently, RINO now means anyone running on a Republican ticket that you've actually heard of before. 

As for the criteria he's laying out for his irrelevant endorsement, the only way Rossi is soft on abortion is because he favors it being legal in cases of rape and incest.  So do I.  That hardly means we think pregnancies that result from rape and incest should all be aborted.  What that means, for me, is that if for the last 30 years abortion had been illegal except for cases of rape and incest millions of Americans that died in abortions would be alive and millions more Americans would identify as pro-life.  Yes, I'm willing to compromise my principles when they're covered in blood and stubborn idealism.

Didier's demanding Rossi promise to vote against any new taxes and against raising existing ones and to support cutting federal spending.  Perhaps Didier should have perused the issues tab at www.dinorossi.com at some point during the campaign.  Or even have just googled Dino Rossi anytime since the invention of googling.  Rossi's whole platform is cutting taxes and spending.  Always has been.

That spectacle this morning was nothing but a sore loser pity party.  I don't understand what purpose this serves other than helping Harry Reid's handmaiden, Patty Murray.  Thankfully, it seems his supporters are in touch with reality.  Washington State political twitter guru, Nansen Malin, has posted multiple tweets about Didier supporters inquiring about Rossi campaign signs, way to support him.

By the way, the primary results were Murray (46%), Rossi (34%) and Didier (12%).  That's right.  A dead heat.

crossposted at KillTruck, Snark and Boobs

Kill Truck

KillTruck is a wife, mother, blogger and native midwesterner now living in Eastern Washington state. She writes about politics, pop culture, parenting, wifing and a few other subjects she has no authority to write about. She has macabre fascinations with prostitution and/or cannibalism. In her free time she enjoys eating and/or drinking her feelings, liveblogging Lifetime movies, thinking about Scott Brown and mocking things she doesn’t understand.

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  1. Mary Sue
    August 21st, 2010 - 01:20

    Did you sleep with him too?

    Seriously there are a few too many whiners who can’t put their egos aside. There was a potential spoiler in my local House race. He was just tossed from the ballot when he couldn’t accept the results and decided to run Independent. Half his signatures were supplied by the Dem incumbents staffers. How about they take one for the team and concentrate on getting the Dems out of control?

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  2. Grammatiknazi
    August 21st, 2010 - 07:51

    “Yes, I’m willing to compromise my principles when their covered in blood and stubborn idealism.”

    Apparently, you’re also willing to compromise on the spelling of “they’re” (contraction for “they[ a]re”).

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  3. Joe
    August 21st, 2010 - 09:24

    If you ad the other tea party guy, Akers, into the mix it puts Rossi ahead by 3 points.

    Recognize the enemy. Patti Murray. She is horrible. A Rossi victory would be bigger than Scott Brown because 1) Rossi is really a fiscal conservative and a good guy (he is not a RINO), 2) Murray is a democratic leader in office, so her loss would be huge, and 3) because Murray is just a disaster, she has to go.

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  5. Joe
    August 21st, 2010 - 10:22

    What is Little Miss Attila’s take on all of this? I notice her blog is silent on the issue. She is in Washington, so you figure she would be all over it.

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  6. Blackiswhite, Imperial Consigliere
    August 22nd, 2010 - 12:42

    See, the thing is, before the primary, I would have thought it would be Akers pulling this crap, especially after some of the things he said when Boze had him on.

    That said, I do wish Didier would shut his piehole and close ranks behind the candidate we chose.

    Oh, and I didn’t sleep with Dino and he still has my endorsement. I just hope that King County does not once again continue to find votes until his opponent is once again put over the top.

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    • Kill Truck
      August 22nd, 2010 - 18:25

      From my very unscientific observations it looks like this really disappointed Didier supporters. May our righteous hatred for Patty Murray hold us together.

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