Well, there were certainly some interesting choices in yesterday’s primary election. I am disappointed in Blanche Lincoln’s runoff win against Bill Halter, mostly because I think that Democrats need to start acting like Democrats, but also because I think “Halter Topped Lincoln” would have made a funny headline. Orly Taitz lost badly in her quest to be California’s Lieutenant Governor, but still got thousands of votes. It’s scary how many fools and lunatics live in America – and they aren’t all in the south. An interesting side note on that race: the winner, Damon Dunn, is a black man. What is up with the black Republican thing? It’s as incomprehensible to me as the Log Cabin Republican thing.
If I walked into the room and I could feel that the people there didn’t like me much, I would leave as soon as possible.
Two other weird things happened in California. Meg Whitman, who spent 80 million dollars of her own money, won the Republican nomination for the governorship. How much will she spend on the general?
And Carly Fiorina, the catastrophic CEO of Hewlett Packard, hated by everyone who ever worked there, and producer of the worst political ads ever (demon sheep), won the Republican nomination for the Senate, as if she were qualified to even be in the same room with Barbara Boxer.
One interesting thing about these 3 candidates – between them, they haven’t voted more than 3 times in their lives. And they all spent large amounts of their own money. O.K., two interesting things.
They have no political record, they have no real political stands of any substance, they have no real clear motive for being in politics and yet they are spending huge amounts of money to try to gain political offices which will never be able to pay as much as what they have spent, unless they are crooked. Like really, really crooked.
November will be interesting. If either Whitman or Fiorina win, it will signal the beginning of a new trend: megawealthy people flat out buying a political position. In some cases it may be a vanity thing, they want their names in the history books (I think of Roland Burris’ mausoleum), in some cases it may be benevolent, it’s theoretically possible, of course, that of all of the hundreds of politicians who just say they want to “give something back” one of them is actually telling the truth, but most often I fear, applying Occam’s razor, it will usually be because they see a way to get richer still.
Let’s hope they don’t win.
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