Paul Scott's Recall: Liberal Pettiness

All the time, all the effort, all the false angst and all the cash which has been and will be spent on the recall efforts, have led to what? Exactly one state lawmaker is being subjected to recall. This despite the backing of at least one major union, the Michigan Education Association (surprise, surprise) and the self righteous wailing of the those jealous that they are no longer in power precisely because their message has finally been seen for what it is: a con game based on failed big government theories.

Paul Scott, a Republican out of Grand Blanc, faces recall on November 8th. The most reliable polling shows him winning reasonably comfortably. Should that trend hold out, it will show all the more why the recallers were simply little more than rabble along the lines of the Occupiers. They aren't interested in what the people want. They are interested only in their narrow ideals.

Why is it that we never see conservatives in particular and Republicans in general seeking to recall elected officials? Simply because we believe in the power of the people and the power of democracy. We know and accept that elections happen routinely and regularly and that we can have our say then. We accept that, as one respondent to Rep. Scott's door to door campaigning said, that recalls are for criminals and slackers, not for those actually doing the job of a legislator.

The sweetest irony here is that if Scott is indeed recalled, it will only magnify the narrowness of the interests who will have won. If he loses his seat because of the MEA and the rabble, we will see all the more clearly that it would be a win of the special and not the general interest. It will merely serve to hurt the left even more in the 2012 elections. Not that we want Scott to lose, but merely that a Scott loss won't hurt the Michigan conservative movement all that much. It's a win/win for the right, and, played properly, a lose/lose for the left.

As the old saying goes, give them enough rope. November 2012 can't come quickly enough.