With the attention-span-challenged nation focused on a high-profile presidential campaign in which November’s winner is anyone’s guess, it’s easy to overlook the greater Seattle area’s boring, one-sided local electoral contests.
In an enlightened, superior progressive region such as the Puget Sound, candidates running under the pollution-loving, war-mongering, Bible-thumping Republican banner rarely have much success in fooling the public into voting for them. In fact, no Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan has managed to win even one Puget Sound county.
The electoral picture is even more amusingly hopeless for some local Republicans, such as Steve Beren, running for Congress in Washington’s 7th Congressional District against Jim McDermott. Having held the office for nearly twenty years, McDermott has never received less than 72% of the vote. (In related news, a recent UW study showed that 28% of Seattle residents suffer from some form of dementia.)
Beren received just 15% of the vote in his 2006 contest against McDermott, but even though he could barely even get half the crazies to vote for him, he doesn’t let that dampen his imbecilic enthusiasm for this year’s rematch. “Sure, I realize I have no chance,” said Beren, as he maniacally stared down our interviewer, “but so what. Am I right?”
All around the Puget Sound, literally dozens of Republicans have filed to run for local and national positions that they have absolutely no hope of winning. Though their motivations are diverse, they share one common trait: a willingness to waste untold amounts of time and money in their pursuit to inflict backward, regressive, malevolent Republican ideals on our perfect progressive utopia.
Washington State Republican Party chairman Luke Esser is glad to see so much irrational enthusiasm for achieving the impossible in his party. “We always like to see our candidates exhibit such fervor for the unattainable,” he said. “The Republican Party has never let the impossibility of a task prevent us from chasing after it blindly.”
Esser explained that encouraging Puget Sound Republicans to make a pointless run for local offices is merely a continuation of his party’s proud history of pursuing the impossible with no regard for logic. Other examples he gave included allegedly attempting to achieve the goal of fiscal conservatism while continuing to spend billions on an endless war and also “that whole Contract with America thing.”
Indeed, despite the delightfully insurmountable odds, local Republican candidates remain idiotically optimistic.
“I really don’t understand why nobody will vote for me,” said Beren. “What’s not to like about my big-business-loving, middle-class-repressing, baby seal-clubbing platform?”
Of course he can’t win against Baghdad Jim! Seattle and King County are populated by a bunch of neo-socialists. They’d never have a Republican or anything else other than the most liberal Democrat around in McDermott’s seat.
Send your campaign donations to Baghdad Jim McDermott. He will use it to pay his $1.1 million fine and costs to Rep. Boehner. Boehner says he will use it to support Republican candidates. Make your checks big, bigger…
In response to the above comments, “Baghdad Jim” should probably be renamed “Absolutely correct, on the right track, knew what the heck he was talking about when it came to wars entered into under false pretenses Jim”…
I represent the Seattle stereotyping by Mr. Incorrect – I, for one, am a paleosocialist. These neos will be moving back to California any day now, taking their money and dangerous ideas with them.
A major problem for Mr. Behren’s political career may be more about his unfortunate resemblance to Dr. Evil than his unfortunate politics.
Bravo! on this brave and excellent site, BTW. We’ll be back…
The republicans are old news in Washington. Let’s have more stories about the party that unites us. The party that made bold promises for their first 100 days.
Why don’t they run Ron Paul against BagMan Jim! Everyone knows who Jim carries the bag for!