The absurdity of Herrera "Staying true" to anything.

It wasn't that long ago that my senator, Joe Zarelli, was taking a very, very hard look at running for Congress.

His unemployment debacle has cost him any chance at higher office... anywhere... and that fact sunk in when he made the decision to avoid that kind of embarrassment and endorse his former intern-for-a-few-weeks for Congress.

In the paper, however, Zarelli made a curious observation so far from true that it strains additional credulity:

“She’ll go there carrying the banner of the Republican Party, but what is more important is that she will stay true to the party’s principles,” Zarelli said.

Really?

Do Republican principles include co-sponsoring and voting for SEIU legislation?

Do Republican principles include doing that as a result of $5000 in campaign donations like those she received in 08?

Do Republican principles include helping the democrats strip out every last dime of the state's emergency fund?

Do Republican principles include rather stupidly telling us the loss of the House was a "Good thing?"

Do Republican principles include "Blumenthalian" exaggeration about her resume'?

Do Republican principles include bailing on her constituency during session to go to a special interest fundraiser in DC?

Do Republican principles include leaving the floor for hours at a time to do fund raisers/fund raising calls and having your seat mate vote for you so you would appear to actually be there?

Do Republican principles include taking money from democrat fund raisers?

Do Republican principles include the avoidance of taking a position on the Arizona Immigration Law (SB 1070)?

Do Republican principles include lying about there "not being a job in the world she would rather do?"

Do Republican principles include speaking for an amendment and then helping to kill that amendment by failing to stand to insist on a recorded vote?

Do Republican principles, for that matter, include blowing almost $500 for meals on a 3 day trip on the taxpayer's dime?

Combine that with the fact that there is precisely ONE "banner" she's going to carry, McMorris Rogers, and I have GOT to wonder:

Just who the hell was Zarelli talking about? It damned sure isn't Herrera.