Liberal Democrats just don't get it

Again over at the leftists blog "BlueOregon" Kari Chisholm continues to parrot the liberal Democrat line that fault behind Jeff Duyck's "mis-filing" for house district 29 is Jeff Duyck himself.

Completely absolving the Democrat Secretary of State of any mishandling of the entire sordid affair.

Apparently, according to Chisholm, Jeff Duyck should not have relied upon the word and effort of the Democrat Secretary of State and the Washington County elections officials and should have gone through some complicated "Census Bureau" check. A check that would have given him his location very plainly.

State: Oregon... County: Washington County... ... County Subdivision: Forest Grove-Cornelius CCD... ... Census Tract: Census Tract 333... ... ... Block Group: Block Group 1 ... ... ... ... Block: Block 1097... Congressional District - 106th: Congressional District 1 (106th Congress)... Congressional District - 110th: Congressional District 1 (110th Congress)... State Legislative District, Upper Chamber - Pre-2010: State Senate District 13... State Legislative District, Lower Chamber - Pre-2010: State House District 26... School District, Unified: FOREST GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT 015... Super Public Use Microdata Area: 41503... Public Use Microdata Area: 01311Metropolitan Statistical Area/Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area: Portland--Salem, OR--WA CMSA... Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area: Portland--Vancouver, OR--WA PMSA3-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area: 971 3-Digit ZCTA... 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area: 97116 5-Digit ZCTA

Now aint that as plain as mud? Surely YOU have done that to make sure that the Secretary of State and your local county elections division has been sending you the correct ballot for the last seven years. Surely.

Of course that is left wing hysterics. Hysterics that is needed to cloud the fact that the Oregon Secretary of State, a Democrat, has been screwing up for the last seven years. Of course it is the job of the lefty blogs to try to cloud the matter and spin it so that it is the fault of a Republican even when Democrats are the folks making the mistakes.

Yet even The Oregonian newspaper has found fault with the establishment and admit that it would be travesty if Jeff Duyck were forced to withdraw from the race. Because after all he did everything RIGHT. And no one is going to accuse The Oregonian of being a mouthpiece for the Republican party.

What is relevant, though, is that none of this was Duyck's doing.

As a result of the error, Duyck has stopped campaigning at least temporarily. Whether the secretary of state's office has the leeway to make an exception for Duyck is not yet clear. But we hope the secretary of state can find a way to give Duyck the go-ahead.

Under the circumstances, it would be unfair both to him and to the voters who support him to bag it.

Meanwhile back at the lefty blog the cat-calls are coming out saying "rule of law! rule of law!" as if Republicans should just sit down and shut up and abide by the rules because, according the them, it was a Republican who made a mistake.

While at the same time the liberal Democrat cheerleaders do not want to apply those same hard and fast rules, even in a moral sense, to the Democrat elections establishment.

Are Chisholm and the other Democrat apologists speaking out of both sides of their mouths? Is it one massive attempt at spin control in an attempt to draw fire away from the state-wide office holder Bill Bradbury?

What is the remedy for Jeff Duyck at this point? We don't know. However what we do know is that if the Oregon House is to be continually controlled by the Democrats we will get more of the same.

That is that any mistake, anywhere, any time, by a Republican will be the fault of a Republican. Any mistake, anywhere, any time, by a Democrat will somehow also be the fault of a Republican.

Taking back the Oregon House of Representatives is now more important than every. They have shown themselves to be hyper-partisan to the enth degree.