Monday, February 11, 2008

Frustration from Washington   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I am a Washington State precinct committee officer in one of the rural areas of our state. (also a blogger and huge fan of NRO.)

 

There are a number of things wrong with the WA caucus.

 

One is that me and a number of people from my community took valuable time out of our Saturday to go and caucus.  Then, when I call the state party office I am told that the declaration was made even though they did not get the official results from “some people” in the rural areas who may be sending the results in via snail mail.

 

Aaarrgghhh... I said... That would be me!

 

So my question to the party was whether or not we should have even shown up to caucus?  I mean I expect that the good folks in Seattle would dearly love to have us show up on the second Tuesday in November.  Considering we are likely to have a knock down drag out rematch between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregiore.

 

It is this kind of treatment by the party establishment that has fueled the suspicions of the grass roots folk such as me.

 

Add to those suspicions the generic dislike for John McCain and you have a “not good” scenario potentially building for the general election.

 

Disclaimer: I am a former Fred head who became a soft Romney voter who ended up caucusing for Huckabee to send a message to the McCainiacs that he still has work to do.  And for what it is worth, my precinct did not include ONE McCain vote.  And we were not counted by Luke Esser?

 

02/11 04:54 PMShare