Sunday, December 03, 2006
Cindi Scoppe has a crush on me. Why else would she behave like this? To see her swooning this way, smitten by my charms, desperately vying for my attention, fantasizing about what it would be like to be held in my arms, enthralled by the thought of a life of inseperable companionship, marked by connubial bliss, domestic tranquility, innumerable children and pets etc., etc.—it's all a little bit pathetic really. I'm embarassed for her.
The day after being excoriated on this blog for her premature declaration of defeat of school choice of this election, she feigns ignorance and files this ridiculous column. It's quite clearly a cry for attention. In some ways, this is not at all unlike when your previously potty-trained toddler has an accident. One step forward, one step back. You're upset about the mess but it's hard to stay angry at the child.
Cindi, I still care about you. But not like that.
Look, you're interpreting the tea leaves about school choice. But school choice wasn't on the ballot. Governor Sanford, chief cheerleader and architect of school choice, was on the ballot. (He won.) Thomas Ravenel, darling of the school-choice movement in South Carolina because he both runs a business and is pro-business, was on the ballot. (He also won.) Richard Eckstrom was on the ballot. (A friend of school choice, Eckstrom won.) Lewis Vaughn, the #1 proponent of school choice in the State House, got elected to the State Senate in a romp. The victories just kept 'a comin'.
Now, Jim Rex also won. But—as per comment #20 in the post directly below—we can't know why. But there were a heckuva lot of issues besides school choice. One was Karen Floyd's previous service in Spartanburg County, which Democrats implied led to the tragic death of a Wofford College employee. (Classy move, Democrats! What's next—kidnapping opposing candidates' tykes?) Another was huge Democrat turnout. Another was the Insider v. Outsider debate. Etc., etc. And then of course there was the vote-stealing which the Democrats have perfected into an art form; it's enough to make Katherine Harris blush!
The point is that Cindi Scoppe is living in a fantasy world where parents don't want any more choices for their children, because the current SC schools are just peachy keen. (Or can be fixed without breaking the monopoly.) Ha! Good one, Cindi! I love a gal with a sense of humor. No, NOT LIKE THAT.
In a world where kids' parents will be able to choose between buying their rugrats one of the three latest game consoles, wouldn't it be nice if they could also choose a little unimportant thing like where they go to school?
Posted by Bill Smith at 11:13 PM |
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