ObjectiveDoubter wrote:
My reaction as a non-lawyer is to cringe at this lunatic's characterization of Emken. I am a Democrat and will vote DiFi, but I am capable of seeing the opponents as decent human beings until they prove otherwise. Emken is someone who made a conscious decision to put her legal expertise to work supporting the disabled. As the parent of an autistic child, she decided to walk the walk not just donate money. To me, that is the harder road to take and she should be lauded for it, not smeared as a conniving lobbyist. What Orly says here seems to be slanderous (libelous? I can never tell which is which): She says, in essence, that Emken bribed the GOP to get the endorsement. I would like to see Emken do what our friends B&T wanted to do in Mississippi (unfortunately stuck in Mississippi mud, apparently): take her on instead of thinking that the best thing to do is just ignore her. Orly deserves to be whacked by being made to explain herself for a change, to be put on the defensive rather than allowed to run amok with impunity, and the only thing that will matter to her is to be taken down financially. If I could and I were Emken, I'd sue for millions. Let Orly see what it's like!
What got me was this part.
The Nitrous Queen wrote:
"Taitz ran for the Secretary of State in the Rpublican primary, she got 26% of the vote, a total of 537,000 votes, while Emken, who ran for Congress in 2010 got only 11,000 votes."
First off, Dr. Orly was one of two people in the Secretary of State primary, which was statewide. Emken ran for the 11th Congressional District primary, in a district that covers parts of five counties, and came in fourth out of five people. Furthermore, the GOP challenger that lost got 112,703 votes, and the Democrat that won got 115,361 (240,503 votes total). In other words, that district cast less votes for that race than Dr. Orly got for her statewide race.
She's not comparing apples and oranges here. She's comparing apples and rocks.
Second off, Dr. Orly has more name recognition. Which doesn't equal electability. Most of the people who know Dr. Orly immediately think of her as that deranged jackal who waves around piles of papers and sounds like she's looking for moose and squirrel. She's a joke in the minds most of voters, and has become more so since then.