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Fight Another Day
By Matt Margolis | December 30, 2004
The battle appears to be over. Christine Gregoire has been declared the winner in the Washington state gubernatorial race. Secretary of State Sam Reed, a Republican, admits there were mistakes, but says there is nothing that appears fraudulent.
Sure, it is possible that there was no fraud behind the mysterious bounty of ballots that were discovered in King County. But it is definitely harder to accept selective re-canvassing of the Democrat-stronghold as kosher. You don’t have to convince me that there were questionable things happening in this race.
Left-wing bloggers have declared victory, and sneered at Rossi’s contesting of this lemon election. They’ve been doing their victory dance after the second recount conveniently gave Gregoire a 129 vote victory.
Of course, a majority of these left-wing bloggers—and a number of fringe lefties nationwide—refuse to wave the white flag and concede Ohio (even though Kerry already has) where the margin of victory was 920 times larger than Gregoire’s “victory” in Washington. Similarly, state officials have claimed on numerous occasions that no evidence of fraud, suppression, or tampering were found in Ohio.
Hell, even Wonkette concedes that Kerry lost Ohio…
I spoken about this race with Stephanie Sandlin, a radio talk show host in Spokane, Washington at KSBN Radio. We both believe that Gregoire’s victory is illegitimate. She told me that she thinks that Rossi should stop fighting for this election—but that he should not concede. At this point, I have to agree. It’s time to move on, and fight another day. Bigger and better things await Dino Rossi. Don’t believe me? Look at John Thune.
The guys over at Sound Politics have done an incredible job monitoring this particular election battle. Keep an eye on them.
Rossi should take back his call for a revote. He needs to quit while he still has the high ground. Yes, it sucks when Democrats don’t play by the rules, but the longer this drags out, Rossi is the one who risks coming out of this with mud stains. Don’t get me wrong, Gregoire does not come out of this clean. She’ll have a harder time governing effectively as a governor with a questionable victory than Rossi will have coming back in four years to challenge her again or to perhaps aim higher, perhaps putting his name in for a congressional race.
So, Dino Rossi, let’s move on, but don’t concede. Just fight another day.
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December 30th, 2004 at 6:18 pm
I only heard the start of it, but on Rush’s show today, the fill-in host (was it Tom Sullivan?) mentioned something about how there were a large number of voters all registered to the same address somewhere in King County. I wish I could remember the details (but I think SOundPolitics has previously covered it)
December 30th, 2004 at 8:03 pm
Rossi has consistently argued in court that a victory for him is more important than a citizen’s right to vote (they conceded validity of King Co. ballots TWICE in court, but argued against counting them) These votes included Dem, Rep, and Lib votes. How can a WA citizen expect him to look out for our rights?
Rossi flip-flops–Rossi is now worried that some military votes might not have been counted due to lateness or no postmark. his first court case argued against counting these votes–and he won that one.
As a state senator, Rossi voted for the current recount rules. yet, he has repeatedly cried foul and ran to court when he thought they could hurt his possible victory. was he not paying attention at his previous job, or does he just not have strength in his convictions?
It’s time for Rossi to concede. Both the democrats and republicans were present during the recount. Let him try again in 2 years. It is time to move on.
December 30th, 2004 at 9:19 pm
George, the problem was that once the Democrats decided to change the rules for King County, the right thing to do was to make it apply statewide.
December 30th, 2004 at 10:32 pm
I found the link to the article I was referring to above here:
GOP wants vote data from King County
December 31st, 2004 at 3:31 pm
If Rossi had some help from the Ohio Crew, there’d be nothing to worry about now.
If anything, I’m a little upset that the RNC et al. have (apparently) not been strong enough in their support of his candidacy. At this point, he should just retire quietly into the background and open a dialogue with the higher-ups to figure out how to avoid this next time.
December 31st, 2004 at 8:44 pm
Heh, Republicans can just call her illegitimate and refuse to preface her name with “Governor”.
January 1st, 2005 at 1:05 pm
Is that the same as when the right refused to call President Clinton by his rightful title? As far as I have understood the entire state of Washington was recounted and the “mysterious ballots” were legitimate ballots that were wrongfully disqualified.
Ping Pong pining for the help of the “Ohio Crew” is disgusting. How can you be proud of the dirty, filthy effort to steal another election.
The thing that nobody on the right understands is that the left will come back into power eventually and then all of the rules that are being stacked against the Dems will come to bite you right in the ass!
Keep things fair and above board and you won’t have to worry!
January 1st, 2005 at 5:36 pm
I don’t recall anyone who refused to call Clinton “President Clinton”
Toc, the problem with those ballots in King County was not only because these ballots were mysteriously found during the second recount, but that they were the only ballots that were allowed to be included post-election. no other counties were allowed to recanvas.
January 2nd, 2005 at 2:52 am
Toc001 - threats. great. That certainly makes me want to vote for a liberal.
January 4th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
“I don’t recall anyone who refused to call Clinton “President Clinton””
I don’t recall President Clinton losing the popular vote. Heh.
By the way, I do recall Republicans wasting 80 million dollars on an investigation into Clinton’s sex life and wasting this country’s resources while we were under a real threat from Islamic terror. Then when Clinton bombed Afghanistan, Republican leaders in Congress started talking about “Wag the Dog” which obviously impeded Clinton’s resolve to go after Al Qaeda. See the 9/11 report.
Also, your reference to “leftist” blogs not conceding Ohio is just a creation of a strawman. Atrios, Drum and Kos have all said that there is no doubt that Bush got more votes than Kerry in Ohio (though some have said there were some irregularities that DIDN’T affect the election worth looking into). In fact, Kos had a post yesterday on the precise subject basically telling the far-left wackos to shut up about it already.
January 4th, 2005 at 8:51 pm
Joe…
Clinton never did win the majority of the vote.
Also, the Clinton investigation/impeachment was for his illegal activities — lying under oath… hello?