Five Reasons for Optimism - Steven Beschloss

[Ol Janx Spirit]

11. The really sad part--to me--is that in the second most populous state in the country...

...the Republicans can run the embodiment of evil against the Democrat's embodiment of good and still be more likely than not to win.

What conclusions are we to draw other than that Republicans are being willingly evil? They have seen the light and they have seen the darkness and they have chosen darkness. It's not a one-off anymore. Republicans have actively rejected morality--at least in politics if not in daily life.

And yes, I know this has been the cycle for over a decade--at least--in the presidential race.

We would unfortunately be incredibly naïve to believe that good will ultimately win out over evil.

The race in Texas between the evil person Republicans overwhelmingly chose to represent them and the good person Democrats chose to represent them should not even be a close contest in a world where good and evil actually mean something; where Republicans even cared about morality.

I guess we will find out in November where the rest of Texas stands...or if they even bother to take a stand at all.

Even that little glimmer of hope that we have been given to defeat a literally evil candidate is only given to us because the malAdministration has destroyed the good economy handed to it by the previous Democratic administration--as is usual for Republican administrations since Reagan. Without that economic anxiety would good even have a chance?

No matter what happens, the result in November will be far closer than it ever should be.