High Quality
We always want high quality…the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the vehicles we drive.
Lately, though, we’ve heard a lot about quality in terms of political candidates. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, among others, complained both before and after this year’s election about the lack of quality candidates running as Republicans. Obviously that was a slap at former President Donald Trump, when the candidates he supported beat McConnell-endorsed candidates in GOP primaries.
And regardless of who won or did not win, either in the primary or general election…this complaint about quality of candidates is pretty high-handed.
That’s because the candidates were selected by real live voters…not party elites.
If you can’t find someone to run, or something like that…sure, I can see a concern about quality of candidates. But when it was a contested primary—Iowa House District 3, Ohio U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate—voters made a choice, leading to a candidate winning.
Complaining about lack of quality candidates, then, means telling the voters they don’t know what they’re doing. Talk about offending your voting base.
And talk about the height of arrogance…it’s all the voters’ fault, not the swamp monsters’ fault.
Perhaps those same voters should insist on high quality leadership…because that’s certainly been lacking for some time.
