Kamikaze Pilots?
When the voters out there hear Rancher, and Democrat in the same sentence, they are going to think one thing… Brokeback Mountain.
A comment found here, describing the situation in the Fifth Congressional District of Washington State, home of former House Speaker Tom Foley, The Democratic challenger to the Republican Incumbent… Rancher Peter Goldmark. Either channelign Molly Ivin’s famous quip about “Nobody comes out of the closet to say they’re gay in Texas out of fear that people will think they’re Democrats.”
Spokane’s 3rd Leg. Dist. often has one of the highest Democratic percentages in the state. Ten minutes outside the city it is a different story.
Images of Spokane abound through the Northwest Metropolitan corridors — somewhat correct somewhat false. What’s interesting is that a lot of people place it on parallel track with … say… Yakima… which is an image of “The Edge of the World” and “Hell on Earth”. Well, go Gonzaga anyway.
Finally, (the crowd does the wave) if making enough nuclear weapons to blow up the planet a dozen times over didn’t cost the Tri-Cities it’s “soul”, I kind of doubt a few liberals going to a “chain” restuarant instead of the Tuscany lounge so they can hear each other talk is going to do the trick. But you won’t have to worry about me showing up and trying to shout over the classic rawk.
Comment found here, regarding the Fourth Congressional District of Washington State, home of the Hanford Nuclear Dump, and a whole lot of Radioactive tumble-weeds.
What is interesting is that has now changed. I would rate the political environment for a Democratic challenger the best it has been since Jay Inslee won. That is why I am so disappointed that Richard Wright isn’t raising any money. He has a real chance, and he is letting it slip away.
The nice thing about Congress-critters is they are fairly easy to ignore as you go on your everyday life. But somebody has to be spending large parts of their day focused on Doc, and Richard Wright is as good as anyone for that task.
Oregon’s rural Republican district, home of Representative Greg Walden –has these four campaigning in what’s probably a worst lost cause than even the “defeatist”s of the Fourth District in Washington, and… Tom Foley’s District full of Gay Cowboys. I have to wonder if this comment is a bit of oversensitivity for the part of the Japanese:
Bill Lunch seems to be unaware of the fact that many of the “kamikaze pilots” were actually forced or coerced into becoming them by the Imperial Japan’s navy. Of course, some did in fact were willingly “drawn to lost causes” – all of them of course fascists who to the end defended the conduct and course of their country at the time.
Okay. The Democratic challengers to Greg Walden are not litereally Kamikaze Pilots. After being plastered by a 70 to 30 margin, I believe they will go on with their lives, not dead. Beyond which, I believe most of the Kamikaze Pilots were willing and eager.