BREAKING: I Don't Care Who Wins NY-9

You are correct (4.00 / 1)

And I'd go one step further:

It doesn't matter who wins any of the regular season races for Congress next year.

The Democrats right now are all trying to scare you into voting for their re-election or hand-picked successors because the Republicans are just so scary.  They'll promise all sorts of change, just like in 2006 and 2008; the Republicans we know will go even more to the extreme right just like in 2010, which is probably the best gift they could give to the other half of our one-party system.  But the only goal of BOTH parties is to preserve and protect that system; neither one of them have any intention of changing anything.  The deadlocked monopoloy they have just makes too much money for them.

Until we get a third party of the people, it's not going to matter which Democratic-Republican capitalists get into that broken institution.  People need to wake up in this country.  

It seems you're on your way to doing just that with you newfound attitude in this race.  Well done...now keep going.

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by: Soundpolitic @ Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 17:06:04 PM UTC

I think this goes too far (4.00 / 3)

I admittedly expressed apathy about this race from a strategic and personal perspective, but I do want Weprin to win.  A) He is clearly a better politician and better human being than Turner, and B) they will use a victory here as a PR tool to hammer Dems in 2012.  And we know that any time Dems suffer a defeat on the national scale, Obama goes shaking in his boots and into ultra-compromise mode (as opposed to the general Obama moderate-compromise mode).  So I think we should in fact care that Weprin wins this one, as I generally do for most Democrats against most Republicans in most elections.

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by: BingChester @ Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 23:22:39 PM UTC

Agreed (4.00 / 1)

Preventing national Republican crowing about winning this seat is reason enough to want Weprin to win.

I remember back in 2010, when Republicans won the Mass. Senate special election. I didn't give a damn about Martha Coakley, who ran the single most inept campaign that has ever been run by anyone, but the Republican crowing about how they had won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat was unbearable.  

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by: Rufus T. Firefly @ Tue Aug 23, 2011 at 14:05:09 PM UTC

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