Did the right person really win in the Murray/Rossi race?

First off, I should congratulate Patty Murray for being the top vote getter for US Senate this year in Washington State. Now for the ugly truth about this Murray/Rossi race.

If you noticed in the paragraph above, I carefully referred to Sen. Patty Murray as the top vote getter, not as the winner of the race. Because she didn't win!! Confusing? Read on.

After Dino Rossi did the right thing by conceding the race to Sen. Murray, many people who were against Rossi acted like complete jerks and started the silly name calling on the comments sections of the election results pages.

Time after time, I would read comments stating that Dino Rossi is a 3 time loser and that nobody wants him representing Washington State and that he should simply just go away.

These kind of comments were childish and inaccurate. These people act like Rossi got no votes at all. The truth is that he would have won if you eliminated King County from the vote count. Patty Murray couldn't win one county East of the Cascade Mountains. Rossi was winning in counties on both sides of the Cascades. So Rossi was winning in most of the state geographically.

Another dumb comment that was repeated several times was the fact that all 3 of these so-called losses were to women, and that he should face another man in order to win a race. The truth is that if he ran against a Gary Locke or some other prominent Democrat here in the state, Rossi would probably still lose because Rossi has been portrayed as a corrupt businessman by the Democratic Party and all the Democrats have to do to win an election against Rossi is to remind people of the 2004 Governor's race in which Rossi hired lawyers even though our Governor Gregoire did the same thing! It just seems like there is a double standard between the actions that Democrats and Republicans take when it comes to business dealings.

But the one type of comment that offended me the most by the Anti-Rossi supporters of Sen. Murray's which again was after Rossi bowed out was the comment that he should go back to mopping floors. This is a reference to the commercials saying how Dino Rossi started out as a janitor at the Space Needle to earn money when he was young. This is an insult not just to me but to any hard working American both Democrat or Republican who actually works for a living unlike career politicians or rich athletes who earn money for doing little physical work.

The people who make comments like the ones saying Rossi should go back to mopping floors are the ones who are helping to create a job market for immigrants because they are associating physical labor with undesirable jobs. No wonder why we have to allow so much legal and illegal immigration in this country, because if you don't become Senator of this state you are considered a loser.

Now to be fair, there have been many anti-Murray comments as well but not near as negative as the anti-Rossi comments.

So should Rossi run again for political office here in Washington? I think he should run again just to prove to these people calling him a 3 time loser that THEY are the losers, not Rossi. But until the attitudes of these shallow minded Washingtonians change, I am afraid to say Rossi will likely come out on the losing side again in any future election he runs in.

The only sure thing is that Patty Murray is NOT the winner. Neither side won because Murray's support base is contaminated with people who call anyone they want a loser based on their past occupation or the number of races lost. And do you really believe that everyone voted for Sen. Murray because she will lead this state in the right direction? We all know many who voted for her were just trying to spite Rossi and make him a 3 time loser which is a totally pathetic way to vote.

To kind of paraphrase Sen. Murray's camp's TV spots, "We can't trust some of Patty Murray's supporters to be for Washington State."