(12-26-2020 02:05 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(12-26-2020 01:49 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(12-26-2020 12:04 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(12-26-2020 11:12 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(12-26-2020 10:54 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Funny you wrote this:


Maybe I should change my first sentence to the more accurate: "But the time rationale that lad very readily adopts, triumphantly repeats as reasonable, and approves of is very on point". Feel better?

Excuse the hell out of me for 'projecting' when you seem to be 'adopting, repeating, and approving of' the rationale. Good grief.

After noting another post on your adoption of that rationale and announcing to us all that it 'seems reasonable' that you get all akimbo about.... bad feather ruffle day over there? Double good grief.

I didn’t adopt it - I said it seemed rationale.

I think you mean rational.

rationale

It probably would reduce argument here if we all were using the correct words.

Rationally, one would want to choose the venue with the likeliest chance of success, and the House controlled by Honest Nancy would seem to fit that bill best for her. Presumably, she expects Iowa venues and courts to uphold the certified results, so her best option is somebody who might ignore such certification.

I think it unlikely that she choose this option, blindly hoping for a good outcome. I feel sure there was back channel communication that gave her team some assurances that this would work.

Sorry, autocorrect. I do a lot of responding on the phone, which doesn’t always lead to proofread responses.

I hope that the backchanneling wasn’t occurring, and frankly that she had not gone the route she has. Yeah, it’s a really tight race, but don’t skip the legal step that is in place to review election results to jump ahead into more biased arms.

If there really is an issue with timing in regards to the ruling, I understand why the jump was made. If that isn’t true, it’s just a partisan reaction that has the chance to further damage the trust in the electoral process.

As I said before (which I think Tanq missed while going full on attack mode), my guess is the House sides with the election board - or at least I hope they do. Overturning that result would require really, really solid evidence and a bipartisan consensus.

We all have autocorrect issues, especially when I am on my IPad.

There is no issue with timing. Seats sit empty all the time. It appears to me she just felt she would get the best results by appealing to her fellow democrats. Iowa is a swing state, controlled by neither party. I don't see why the Iowa boards would vote against her, unless they were just following the law.

My guess is that the Democratically controlled House will vote for the Democrat. I would be delighted to see a display of honesty and nonpartisanship - but I do not expect that, and neither does she.

In the end, an action will be taken - we shall see then.

I'm kind of disgusted with the candidate that decided to bypass both the state and the judiciary and take it immediately to aunt Nancy.

Right now stretch has two options, as from what I gather the 'normal route' was thrown into the garbage --- there will be no further judicial or state action.

Stretch either throws out a state determination and proceeds with one that automatically stinks to high heaven in the manner any determination by a political body reeks of, of defers to the state and kicks her compadre down.

My best assumption is that there had to be communication between Stretch and the 6 vote loser --- otherwise the 6 vote loser will be persona non grata for tossing this egg salad directly on the House.

Since that probably happened I think the field is already tilted towards one outcome over another.

The actions of stretch and 6 vote make zero sense if all that is assumed is a fair impartial determination. Makes zero sense for 6 vote to short circuit and the short circuit makes zero sense without some help being understood to flow from Stretch's caucus.

And I doubt very seriously that stretch will willingly get into the issue without having a set end goal.