The West is the Best

You never know what to expect if you're a hard worker. If you walk your doors and drink your tea uncaffeinated and sweetened with sweet and low.

If you have a father who taught you grass roots city politics and you are teaching him inside baseball Republican politics. today, he winked at you and said, yeah, this is my first campaign. Well, it was far from that, but it was is first in his House seat as an independent, a party switcher.

Turns out, he tells me, people will vote for you if they know you, if you've defined yourself to them. Wary be the candidate that fails to do that.

Look for the fat apathetic politician and you'll see a guy who is not walking his doors or even standing at every possible function and not eating everything in sight or drinking too much, even the coke calories, the dead calories of high fructose corn syrup, no way to run doors on a campaign.

I told him a true rumor about a valued staffer who he'd walked with who was finally lured to the Senate, he and his wife, to do the same sort of successes he did for the House GOP. A quiet loss, irreplaceable really, in the dedication to task alone. True, but not widely known yet.

What is the Senate really like compared to the House. Slower paced, well, I don't think so anymore. That has now proved to be a formula for failing leadership. The most public kind of failure, losing at election, but another sort of failure is resorting to the courts to fight your battles. That just tells me you're rich, and that is how you are defining yourself.

Does one want to be promoted there really, or is that a place to retire? A careerist in the legislature needing a change of scene and some payola after working government wages with the skills one has. Twice the pay would be more deserving.

But if the members cant vote it for themselves, how can they administer it for their staffers?