Saturday, January 28, 2006

Democrats and Republicans

Today, both the Washington State Democratic Central Committee and the (oh, I suppose I’ll lower myself to link to them, just this once) Washington State Republican Party chose new state chairs, replacing Paul Berendt and Chris Vance, respectively.  I don’t yet know the results of either contest.  An article in yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer offers a useful scorecard to pick out the competitors.

Rather than try to handicap the who’s-who in the two races, I’ll instead make note of one of the clearest of differences between the two parties, and one of the myriad ways in which being a Democrat is good and true and right, being a Republican is bad and false and wrong.  It’s the final paragraph of Neil Modie’s above-linked P-I article:

The Democrats’ meeting Saturday is open to the public. The Republicans’ meeting is closed.

Need I say more?