It's Never The Message

That is, if your a rabid right-winger who just lost an election. There's group in California trying to stack the courts, operating under the name "Better Courts Now". Apparently, they didn't do so well.

Four incumbent judges were headed to easy victories over a slate of challengers who were backed by a group of religious and social conservatives. A race for a fifth seat on the bench appeared headed to a runoff in the fall. . . .

The four challengers ran as a slate backed by Better Courts Now, a group formed by pastors and supported by foes of same-sex marriage and abortion rights. It said it wanted to unify the “moral vote” and promote judges who would reflect their values.

Each of the victorious judges got more than 60 percent of the vote in his or her race, and several saw that wide margin as a rejection of the Better Courts Now effort to influence the makeup of the bench.

But, according to one of the candidates, it's all about unseating incumbents:

But Trask said the totals show the difficulty of unseating an incumbent judge, and not a rejection of Better Courts Now.

“I think it has a lot to do with unseating an incumbent,” he said of the vote totals. “It’s always an uphill task.” Despite the across the board defeat he said Better Courts Now will likely not go away.

“I think if anything this is probably only the beginning,” he said.

Isn't it funny how "the will of the people" only counts if you win?

It's even funnier when you factor in the bloodlust to throw the bums out that we keep hearing about from the corporate press.

Who do you suppose is in greatest danger of a hernia from shoveling so much BS?

Speaking of far-right anti-gay nutjobs, it looks as though NOM is having its problems:

A federal appeals court in Boston has ordered the National Organization for Marriage to hand over information about its donors to the state.

The group, known by its initials "NOM" contributed nearly $2 million to last year's successful campaign to overturn Maine's gay marriage law. Opponents say NOM has failed to comply with the state's financial disclosure law, a claim that is nowunder investigation by the state Ethics Commission.

And as far as NOM's ability to get out the vote -- well . . . . not so much:

Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, D-Des Moines, easily beat Clair Rudison Jr., an ordained minister that campaigned against gay marriage as well as the state’s texting-while-driving ban. Abdul-Samad said it would be contradictory to his life’s work in the civil rights movement to oppose marriage rights for same-sex couples. There is no Republican challenger in that district.

And ditto in California.

Do we see a trend here?