And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
Time for a Youth Movement
Submitted by faustus37 on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 8:52am.
Is the Idaho political system getting a bit long in the tooth?
Consider that in 2010 all of the Republican state constitutional officers up for re-election will be over 50, with only Lawrence Wasden and Tom Luna under 60.
At 53, Bill Sali is the youngest member of the Idaho congressional delegation. Thus far, he remains the youngest presumptive candidate in the 1st CD.
The youngest Democrat running for a major Idaho office in 2006 was Jim Hansen (born 1959). Jackie Groves Twilegar (born 1955) was the youngest running for a statewide office.
Now, I have no problem whatsoever with people in their 50s and older running for and serving in public office. My point here is no one else seems to be on either side. We as Democrats talk about recruiting younger candidates and "building up a bench," as it were, but who's stepping up? I know Branden Durst is a notable exception to this, but he's still an exception.
It seems to me we need to find new people. Apparently the Republicans do too, but that's their problem.
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Idaho's Legislature Oldest in USA
reported back in the winter from this analysis done by Scripps-Howard
see http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/19877
Yup
I remember you saying that earlier. It was in the back of my mind as I wrote this.
Little Adam
Little Adam thinks you're just dreamy for "raising the level of discourse on the lib side".
Well fuck him and the horse that rode in on him.
http://adamsweb.us/blog/why-no-young-politicos-in-idaho/
Strong Words
I well realize my words against Adam are strong, but I'm sick and tired of his false civility while joyfully tearing down foundations of society in order to achieve a Theocratic Autocracy.
He's fake, he's a liar and that irritates me to no end. His false palpitations at the idea that someone would say "fuck" in a blog post is ignorant of the strength of convictions that people have about their political beliefs.
And when you're 100% right about something as large as the failure of the Iraq war, you get to say fuck now and then.
Eww ...
It's gonna take awhile to get that visual out of my head ...
Adam is also on record as saying I'll get trounced in an election, fwiw.