Rep. Corte Deployed to Iraq

Best of Wishes for Rep. Corte (0.00 / 0)

KT, whether or not you meant it, this post comes off as sounding like you  -- and, thus, the entire BOR crowd -- wished Rep. Corte was in some sort of scandal, just so the "run everywhere" strategy would be proven right. Now, I want to win as much as we can, but if we don't step back and respect the bigger picture, we lose sight of what we're all trying to do in the first place. I mean, instead of even wishing Rep. Corte the best of luck, you're thinking about how this could have played out for the state party chair's race.

I think it's entirely inappropriate to talk about how "brilliant" the run everywhere strategy would be if Rep. Corte was involved in some sort of scandal. The guy's being deployed. Whether or not you or I or any of our readers agree with what's going on over there, it's happening, and people like Rep. Corte and Rep. Noriega are the ones putting their lives on the line.

98% of the time, we need to focus on winning and GOTV and talking about our Democratic ideas and values. But when something like this happens, you do what the ACTUAL candidate did -- wish Godspeed to Rep. Corte, and leave the strategy sessions out of it.

Sometimes, we've got to look at the bigger world...and think about how that bigger world might be looking at us.

Now, a very great man once said that some people rob you with a fountain pen.

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by: Phillip Martin, Progress Texas @ Fri Feb 03, 2006 at 20:15:19 PM UTC

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I think the others linked in the opening paragraph had fully covered the 'godspeed and good wishes' part of the story.  And as I wish him well (and did so in saying the Representative will be off serving his country), I feel little need to limit such a post to a repetition of the well wishes story which has already been said.

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by: Karl-Thomas Musselman @ Fri Feb 03, 2006 at 20:57:10 PM UTC

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