02 Jun Lying bastards (cont.)

Esteemed Metro gadfly Michael Marshall, running this time for the Greens in Bill Dooks’s Eastern Shore riding, agrees with fellow veridian David Croft. He writes:

I am running and organizing again for the Greens, and I do for them what I did as an N-dipper: tell everybody what I think we’ll actually get for votes, be it 2% or 16%. It didn’t seem to hurt me among the public, other parties, or the media, but the party faithful often protested that we were going to win and should say so.

But when I asked if  they were willing to sign for a few thousand dollars in bank loans against the rebate returned to winning candidates, they quickly backed off. Generally, the lazier the supporter, the more they proclaim we’re ‘going to win.’ The real workers know better.