Business travel could be used as a scapegoat, but the fact is that at this moment I am blogged out and feeling impatient for this interminable election to be over and done with. The mind of a Terry McAuliffe may find it a relief to know who the Democratic nominee is by March 1, but I do not. We have had 6 months of election build-up, which is far more than enough time to by now have settled the matter and moved on. Yet there are 3 more weeks of still growing frenzy.
While as proudly partisan as anyone, at this point I would prefer a decisive result either way to the lawyerly maneuvers that left such a bad taste in every voter’s mouth from the 2000 fiasco. Better to lose outright in an honest and undisputed result than to win in a courtroom. I wonder if some Democrats feel this way too. The concluding lines of Frost’s “An Empty Threat” come to mind:
“Better defeat almost, If seen clear, Than life’s victories of doubt That need endless talk-talk To make them out.”
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1 - Eric Olsen
great quote Harry, and not that I am so much sick of the process (I stay at a mental distance until about now in order to avoid the satiation and because I'm lazy) but I agree entirely that a decisive vote is preferable to the niggling that continues to this day over the 2000 vote. I have a lot of faith in the collective wisdom of the American people.