A LTTE to the Strib today made a good point

[dflprincess]

the writer noted that 2 years ago Timmy the Tool said Franken should concede before the first (required by law) recount was even started for "the good of the state" - after all, what were the odds Franken would make up the 215 votes he was behind after the votes were tallied election night?

Now we have Emmer, around 9,000 votes behind Dayton, and Timmy hasn't said a work about "the good of the state" (not that he's really even thought about that at any time in the last 8 years).

[trotsky]

1. I see your (and the letter writer's) mistake:

Thinking a Republican could be anything but a flaming hypocrite.

[dflprincess]

3. I was posting it for that very reason

no way am I naive to think Pawlenty would actually consider the good of state. Given the tone in the actual letter, I think the writer was also trying to point out the hypocrisy as well and didn't expect Timmy to be consistant.

But, it's important that we remember what they've said in the past so we can point it out when they do just the opposite later.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. This reminds me of how I lost my Christmas Barbie.

My sister got her Christmas Barbie the year before I got mine. In those twelve months her Barbie had been given plenty of baths and a couple of haircuts so she looked more troll than Barbie. And then I got my Christmas Barbie with shiny, smooth hair in a box. And my sister, older than I was by three years, began to tell me how her Barbie was more alive because she had spent more time in the real world and the sum of the doll's experiences made her a more interesting toy than the one in the box. And. I. Believed. Her.

I sincerely believed that my sister would not lie to me. How could she? We were in the same family.

Democrats need to realize that even though Republicans are also Americans, they are Americans who will lie to them. Period. THEY. WILL. LIE. There is no honor in them and no sense of fair play and each time you think so, you will lose any advantage that you have coming your way.