This editorial is called "Don't forget the nastiness when politicians make nice" by Ken Herman, American-Statesman writer. He wrote about how the candidates will be mean and nasty to each other but later after the election is over, they will be all nice and still be friends.
He wrote about the GOP gubernatorial debate on Friday night on January 29, 2010 and the campaign ads. He thinks that Rick and Kay didn't mean to say all that mean stuff about each other throughout the campaign.
The author gives questions to let the readers really think about it. He states that according to all the TV ads are saying negative things about mostly about Kay or Rick. He also assumes that readers are Democrats. He said, "What should be your favorite political comment of the year (so far) came on the Democratic side."
Then Ken Herman gave his opinion that "maybe intellectual honesty demands that the loser not endorse the winner. But reality dictates that the loser will abruptly pivot to the any-Republican-is-better-than-any-Democrat mantra and endorse the winner." He goes on talking about how Hank Gilbert was endorsed by Farouk Shami and now Gilbert is endorsing Shami for governor. Then he asked about Gilbert twisted things around by saying Shami was trying to be the nomination while he was a gubernatorial candidate and Ken Herman was not surprise about that.
I think that it is wrong what Gilbert did because he was very rude to Shami because he endorsed Gilbert and I think it is a right thing to do for Farok is to support Shami. It is like "you scratch my back and I'll scratch your back." When Gilbert twisted things around it was a mean and backstabbing thing to do. I think that when you are going up against someone in an election and the other person won.
I think that this editorial analyzed the campaign and it makes you think that the candidates are trying their very best to win by taking any dirt they could find on the other candidates to be governor. It is depending on the person to be nice with a fake smile after an election. It is their choice. I think that they should be friends and not let an election ruin a friendship. It would be nice have connections. There is nothing we can do to change that. It is human nature that we try everything in our power to win, if it means that we need to find any evidence that can hurt the other candidate's chance to win. I think it is a good thing to be friends with your opponent that you lost to or just put a fake smile because it will help to support that you are a good person.
He wrote about the GOP gubernatorial debate on Friday night on January 29, 2010 and the campaign ads. He thinks that Rick and Kay didn't mean to say all that mean stuff about each other throughout the campaign.
The author gives questions to let the readers really think about it. He states that according to all the TV ads are saying negative things about mostly about Kay or Rick. He also assumes that readers are Democrats. He said, "What should be your favorite political comment of the year (so far) came on the Democratic side."
Then Ken Herman gave his opinion that "maybe intellectual honesty demands that the loser not endorse the winner. But reality dictates that the loser will abruptly pivot to the any-Republican-is-better-than-any-Democrat mantra and endorse the winner." He goes on talking about how Hank Gilbert was endorsed by Farouk Shami and now Gilbert is endorsing Shami for governor. Then he asked about Gilbert twisted things around by saying Shami was trying to be the nomination while he was a gubernatorial candidate and Ken Herman was not surprise about that.
I think that it is wrong what Gilbert did because he was very rude to Shami because he endorsed Gilbert and I think it is a right thing to do for Farok is to support Shami. It is like "you scratch my back and I'll scratch your back." When Gilbert twisted things around it was a mean and backstabbing thing to do. I think that when you are going up against someone in an election and the other person won.
I think that this editorial analyzed the campaign and it makes you think that the candidates are trying their very best to win by taking any dirt they could find on the other candidates to be governor. It is depending on the person to be nice with a fake smile after an election. It is their choice. I think that they should be friends and not let an election ruin a friendship. It would be nice have connections. There is nothing we can do to change that. It is human nature that we try everything in our power to win, if it means that we need to find any evidence that can hurt the other candidate's chance to win. I think it is a good thing to be friends with your opponent that you lost to or just put a fake smile because it will help to support that you are a good person.
