If, like me, you make at least a daily pilgrimage to Daily Kos, you are aware that David Perdue, Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, is having some problems. He's a businessman, you see, with the kind of background that we are told we need in our legislatures. He proudly specialized, according to his own sworn testimony and campaign statements, in sending American jobs overseas.
You may not be aware that there's a businessman running for governor of Massachusetts, and, like Perdue, he was a whiz at exporting American jobs. So much so, that he got an award for it:
It’s a photo Democrats might have only dreamed of laying their hands on. Republican Charlie Baker, the avowed jobs creator, receiving an “Outsourcing Excellence Award.” In a tuxedo.
But on Tuesday, Martha Coakley’s campaign circulated just such a photo, documenting the politically awkward award that Baker received in 2008 from the Outsourcing Center, an industry group, when he was chief executive of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
via The Boston Globe
Now, based on what I've read about both these guys, I think Perdue would have every right to resent the fact that Baker got this award, as Perdue seems to have been the far more productive outsourcer. But I'm not writing this to make the case for either of these guys. No, I'm writing to share my sense of wonder that anyone would think it was a good idea to give an award for exporting American jobs, and to share, as well, my astonishment that anyone would think it was a good idea to accept such an award. I mean, there are plenty of assholes in the world, but so far as I know, they don't get together every year and give one of their number an “Outstanding Asshole Award”. Baker's record should disqualify him from being governor, but the fact that he accepted that award is proof positive that he lacks the kind of judgment needed in a governor. It illustrates as well, how remarkably comfortable they are in showing their contempt for the people whose lives they are systematically ruining.
It's an unfortunate fact that like Perdue, Baker may win. In Baker's case it's because the Democrats saw fit to once again nominate Martha Coakley to high office. Coakley's incompetence as a campaigner will never be equaled. She is the person most responsible for inflicting Scott Brown on a defenseless nation. For that alone she should have been expelled from the party, but, she lived on to fight (and probably lose) another day.
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